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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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Evergreen Additive Scales LFAM for Field-Ready Unmanned Vessels

Evergreen Additive is expanding large-format additive manufacturing from marine tooling into production of unmanned surface vessels, with recent platforms demonstrating faster and more flexible composite manufacturing.

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Sustainable Composites

Waste PET Upcycled into High-Performance Epoxy Toughener

Researchers in China have developed a one-pot process that converts post-consumer PET waste into hyperbranched oligomers for epoxy toughening. The PET-derived additive increased epoxy impact strength by 98.9% at only 0.3 wt.% loading while retaining key mechanical, optical, and thermal properties.

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Aerospace & Defense

Axalp Technologies Develops CFRP Folding Propeller Blades for Dufour Aero-200

Axalp Technologies has designed and fabricated custom carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) folding propeller blades for Dufour Aerospace’s Aero-200 tilt-wing aircraft. The lightweight blades are optimized for the aircraft’s folding mechanism and are being used in ground and flight testing.

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Energy Composites

DITF Advances Recycling of Wind Turbine Blades into New Composite Reinforcements

Joby Aviation plans to acquire defense technology company Resonant to expand its capabilities in RF systems, aircraft modification, advanced composites, and large-scale defense manufacturing. The transaction would create approximately 1 million square feet of manufacturing, integration, and testing space across the Dayton, Ohio region.

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Aerospace & Defense

Joby Aviation to Acquire Resonant to Expand Defense and Composite Manufacturing

Joby Aviation plans to acquire defense technology company Resonant to expand its capabilities in RF systems, aircraft modification, advanced composites, and large-scale defense manufacturing. The transaction would create approximately 1 million square feet of manufacturing, integration, and testing space across the Dayton, Ohio region.

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Composites

AGY’s S2 Glass Fiber Reinforces Terra Supreme’s New Composite Battery Grids

AGY’s S2 Glass fiber is reinforcing composite grids in Terra Supreme Battery’s new Group 31 bipolar lead-acid batteries for improved durability and cycle life.

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Aerospace & Defense

Heart Aerospace Flies World’s Largest Battery-Electric Aircraft with Composite Airframe

Heart Aerospace has completed the first flight of its X1 demonstrator, the world’s largest battery-electric aircraft, featuring a composite fuselage and wing.

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Mobility

Haddy Advances 3D-Printed Boat Manufacturing for Unmanned Maritime Applications

Haddy has demonstrated rapid 3D-printed boat production for unmanned maritime applications, highlighting the potential of additive manufacturing to accelerate vessel development.

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Aerospace & Defense

Infinite Composites Secures $2.9 Million NASA CLPS-Related Contract for Lunar Lander Propellant Tanks

Infinite Composites has secured a $2.9 million NASA CLPS-related subcontract to develop cryogenic propellant tanks for a lunar lander.

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Composites

Lockheed Martin and Albany Engineered Composites Partner to Scale Hypersonic Production

Lockheed Martin and Albany Engineered Composites have partnered to scale advanced composite production for U.S. hypersonic programs.

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Others

SABIC Launches PCR-Based Carbon Fiber Compound for Circular Consumer Electronics Applications

SABIC has expanded its portfolio of sustainable engineering thermoplastics with the introduction of a new LNP ELCRIN compound incorporating 75% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, its first carbon fiber-reinforced specialty compound based on recycled feedstock, achieving a UL94 V0 flame-retardant rating at a wall thickness of 0.8 mm.

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Dassault Falcon 10X Completes Maiden Flight Ahead of Certification Campaign

Dassault Aviation has successfully completed the maiden flight of its Falcon 10X, marking the beginning of the aircraft's flight-test and certification campaign for the company's next-generation ultra-long-range business jet, which features a newly developed fully composite wing.

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