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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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Alberta Launches Canada's First Carbon Fibre Production Facility in Edmonton

Alberta has officially activated Canada's first carbon-fibre production facility, marking a strategic inflection point for North America's composite-materials supply chain, leveraging oil-sands derived asphaltenes as a lower-cost precursor.

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Toray Secures NCAMP Approval, Elevating Cetex® High Performance Thermoplastic Composite Materials for Aerospace Structures

Toray Advanced Composites announced its Toray Cetex TC1225 low-melt PAEK has achieved further NCAMP qualifications, available in semi-preg and RTL formats with FAA-accepted material data now publicly available.

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Aramco Adds $30B in US Partnerships, Strengthens Pipeline for Advanced Composite Materials and More

Aramco, one of the world's leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, has announced 17 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and agreements with a potential total value of more than $30 billion with major companies in the US. These build on the 34 MoUs and agreements announced in May, worth approximately $90 billion, supporting collaboration opportunities with US companies valued at around $120 billion.

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Gurit Elevates Epoxy Safety Standards for Marine, Wind, and Industrial Composite Applications

The European Union has reclassified 59 epoxy diluent chemicals as CMR (carcinogenic, mutagenic, and reprotoxic), impacting most two-component epoxy systems on the market.

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DLR Achieves Breakthrough in Ultra-Thin CF-LMPAEK AFP Laminates Under Project NATURE

DLR has achieved the world's first Automated Fibre Placement laminates using ultra-thin CF-LMPAEK prepreg plies measuring just 45 microns per ply, unlocking three times the fibre-orientation flexibility for aerospace structures.

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ACMA Announces Completion of Product Category Rule for Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Rebar

The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) has finalized the Product Category Rule (PCR) for FRP rebar, establishing a standardized framework for developing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) across the industry.

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NIAR Concludes Structural Test Campaign for MQ-9B, Reinforcing the Strength of Its Composite Airframe

Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) recently completed a long-term full-scale fatigue test program with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) for the MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft. The MQ-9B features a composite-rich airframe — including a GKN Aerospace-manufactured composite V-tail — that delivers higher structural integrity and a longer service life compared to the earlier MQ-9A platform. The program, which began Dec. 13, 2022, was for ...

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L3Harris Breaks Ground on Arkansas Advanced Propulsion Facilities, Strengthening Composite-Intensive SRM Manufacturing

L3Harris breaks ground on a $400M+ Arkansas expansion set to increase large solid rocket motor manufacturing capacity sixfold.

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NMG Expands Applications for its Graphite Composites

Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc., an integrated company focused on responsible mining and advanced processing to deliver carbon-neutral graphite materials, has reported significant technological progress in expanding its product portfolio, demonstrating that its natural graphite materials are versatile enough for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding applications in addition to energy storage.

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Verretex-Fiberloop Partners with Fiberloop to Set a New Benchmark for High-Grade Composite Recycling

Verretex, a cleantech startup that upcycles composite waste into high-quality glass fiber textiles, has partnered with Fiberloop, a Swedish company specializing in recycling composite materials, for their proprietary Fiberlooping technology.

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Airborne and Lockheed Martin Collaborate on Next-Generation Composites Automation

Airborne has partnered with Lockheed Martin on 'Enhancing the Digital Thread for Composites Manufacturing,' leveraging Airborne's Kit by Light and Automated Ply Placement technologies to develop automated laminating and kitting systems for aerospace production.

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EireComposites and ATG to Manufacture a Constellation of Three Satellites to Detect Gravitational Waves

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a flagship mission led by ESA with support from NASA, is set to become the largest space-based observatory ever engineered, with two Galway-based companies playing key roles.

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