Month: November 2012

As in past years, the development of the market for glass fibre reinforced plastics (GRP) mirrors the general economic growth of the countries included in this report quite closely. This is hardly surprising when we consider the application industries to ...

CanPlastics shared a short video on a visit to the JEC inaugural composites show held in Boston. Over three hundred exhibiting companies (65 percent from North America and 35 percent from Europe and Asia), and 6,698 entries with 4,159 professional ...

NASCAR will allow the teams to use carbon fibre hoods and decklids for the new 2013 Sprint Cup car as it tries to give teams more options for creating downforce. In the past the hoods and decklids have been made ...

The L.A. Motorshow is not just the place to inspect new models of automotive companies, it’s also the place where design teams from the top automotive companies enter a competition to come up with new visionary concepts. In 2012 the ...

Say hello to the new 2014 Jaguar XFR-S, the fastest and most powerful sedan Jaguar have ever produced with some sleek carbon fibre additions. The Jaguar XFR-S incorporates engineering features from both the XKR-S and the all-new F-Type two-seater sports ...

Detection of material failure is a difficult task for engineers, cracks appearing inside a material block can hardly be identified from the outside.It is even more difficult to detect material failure in composite materials. A German research team has now ...