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Carbon fiber is a strong material that is gaining favor for greater use in automobiles and other applications, and Harper International is capitalizing on the growing interest.
The Lancaster company secured a $12 million contract from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to create a carbon fiber processing line that will be used by researchers.
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Business to offer carbon fiber and derivatives to growing energy, transportation and infrastructure markets
MIDLAND, Mich. & ISTANBUL -- The Dow Che...
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Carbon fiber is strong, stiff and light. In short, it's perfect for automotive structural parts. But high material costs and long manufacturing cycle times have kept it out of mass production vehicles. That may be changing. It has become fashionable for automakers to disperse bits of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFP) around the cockpits of their sportier models. Gear shift knobs and center console panels proudly display the familiar exposed weave in an effort to capture some of the cachet of F1 racers and fighter jets. But outside of these decorative touches, the use of CFP in automotive is practically nil. The chief reason is cost. But inasmuch as there is no shortage of either carbon or plastic resins, raw material costs could be brought down over time with increased demand. Even ...
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Currently, the market for carbon fiber in the auto industry is limited to specialty models, where 10,000 units is a large run. That's not high enough for Plasan Carbon Composites. This September the company will be capable of producing 50,000 units for a single model by increasing automation in the lay-up process and reducing overall cure times, says Dalton Blackwell, Plasan's VP and general manager. In addition, Plasan's position as the highest-volume supplier of OEM parts also means that companies are more willing to develop unique low-cost fibers for use in automotive applications. Blackwell also is looking beyond the visible to the invisible, and is interested in producing structural pieces for the auto industry.
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Iran's second-generation centrifuges are based on the P-2 design, which Khan also sold Iran in the 1990s. Because of Iranian difficulties manufacturing key P-2 components using maraging steel, however, Tehran modified the design to use carbon fiber. According to an Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) report on April 13, centrifuge rotors using carbon fiber spin faster than those using maraging steel.
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DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/92740d/growth_opportuniti) has announced the addition of the "Growth Opport...
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DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a9bdf0/worldwide_carbon_f) has announced the addition of the "Worldwide Car...
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GREENVILLE - Pepin Associates Inc. says it has developed a version of its patented Disco-Tex aligned, discontinuous carbon fiber fabric using a thermoplastic as the matrix.
Fabrication with aerospace-grade carbon fiber and nylon has resulted in a highly formable, carbon-reinforced composite material with many possible applications, the company said in a press release.