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The latest from across composites and advanced materials — companies, contracts, technology, policy and people. Updated as it happens.

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Cygnet Texkimp Launches Next-Generation Prepreg Tape Slitting Machine

Fibre handling and converting technology specialist Cygnet Texkimp has unveiled its next-generation, production-scale Prepreg Tape Slitting Machine at the company's UK Innovation Centre. Designed to support the growing demand for automated fibre placement (AFP) and automated tape laying (ATL), the machine enables high-speed, high-accuracy slitting of continuous thermoset, thermoplastic, and ceramic prepreg tapes at up to 60 metres per minute.

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UltiMaker S6 Brings Composite 3D Printing to Defence and Industrial Production

UltiMaker is repositioning itself to serve defence and industrial manufacturing sectors with the UltiMaker S6, engineered to process over 300 filaments including carbon fibre- and nylon-reinforced composites, already deployed by the French and Swedish armed forces and the US Navy and Air Force.

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Consortium 111 Reinvents Hollow Thermoplastic Composite Manufacturing

Consortium 111, formed by Ollow, Protoform Bourgogne and Nobrak, is driving a paradigm shift in composites with its patented process for assembling hollow continuous fibre reinforced thermoplastic parts.

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Infinite Composites Achieves Breakthrough with Linerless Type 5 Composite Pressure Vessels in Orbit

Infinite Composites has announced the first successful deployment of its proprietary linerless Type 5 composite pressure vessel technology on two operational satellites, having already travelled over 20 million kilometers in orbit.

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Northrop Grumman to Test Model 437 Aircraft Featuring Additive Composite Wings

Northrop Grumman announced it will use the Model 437 aircraft, developed by its subsidiary Scaled Composites, to test its Beacon autonomy ecosystem. The Model 437 is believed to be the first aircraft with primary structures, including wings, produced through continuous carbon fiber additive manufacturing.

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Global Researchers Propose Standardized Protocols for Structural Power Composites

Leading research groups in structural power composites (SPCs), spanning institutions such as Imperial College London, Durham University, KTH, Chalmers, University of Vienna, A-Star, NTU Singapore and Texas A&M, have jointly published a paper in Advanced Energy Materials setting out characterization requirements and reporting protocols for this emerging class of multifunctional materials.

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Advanced Engineering 2025: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Manufacturing

The UK's Advanced Engineering show returns to NEC Birmingham on 29-30 October 2025 with a focus on net-zero composites and manufacturing.

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SGL Carbon H1 2025: Sales Down, Carbon Fibers Restructuring Shows Progress

SGL Carbon announced its half-year 2025 results, posting consolidated sales of €453.2 million, a 15.8% decline compared to the same period in 2024, driven by weak semiconductor demand.

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KCL Launches Open Access Piloting Services

KCL has introduced open access piloting services to support R&D teams in the development and validation of sustainable high-barrier materials, leveraging its state-of-the-art roll-to-roll co-extrusion and lamination line.

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ACMA Reaffirms FRP Composites Grating Manual as ANSI Standard

The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) has announced the reaffirmation of the ANSI/ACMA/FGMC-Grating Manual-2017 (R2025) FRP Composites Grating Manual for Pultruded and Molded Grating and Stair Treads. The standard received official approval from ANSI on April 29, 2025.

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Purdue CMSC and Thermwood Partner to Advance Composite 3D Printing with Predictive Simulation

Purdue University's Composites Manufacturing and Simulation Center has partnered with Thermwood Corp. to integrate predictive simulation into large-scale additive manufacturing, paving the way for first-time-right composite production.

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Aksa Akrilik Acquires Full Ownership of DowAksa, Rebrands as Aksa Carbon

Aksa Akrilik, a subsidiary of Akkök Holding, has completed the acquisition of Dow Europe Holding B.V.'s 50% stake in DowAksa (Gumussuyu/Istanbul, Turkey) for $125 million...

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