Back in early 2009, our Offshore Product Manager, Mr. Nick Wotton began collaborating with global architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall on a timber alternative recycled wood plastic composite (WPC) profile to clad the new Australian Embassy in Jakarta. After five years through design to construct, the new embassy is nearing completion and the cladding product […]
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A new pedestrian bridge over Rhyl Harbour in North Wales consists of two 30 m long composite lifting decks. This is the story of its design and installation. FRP composite bridges – a brief history Bridges have traditionally been manufactured mainly from steel or concrete and alternative materials are rarely considered. However, the
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. — Plastics are headed back to Mars in the composite structure of the latest NASA satellite to study the planet. TenCate Advanced Composites NV supplied the carbon fibre composite that is part of the MAVEN — which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution — project. MAVEN headed into space during
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Today our Director – Products & Structures Mr Nick Wotton has welcomed to Australia Mr Tom Carlson, Manager – Offshore Markets at Strongwell Corporation Inc (USA). Today marks the beginning of a new global partnership between SIS and Strongwell Corporation. Strongwell is the world’s largest pultrusion company and the recognized leader in the pultrusion
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Boeing and Oracle Team USA, winners of the 34th America’s Cup, are collaborating to recycle over 3 tonnes of carbon fibre from the USA-71, a yacht built for the America’s Cup campaign in 2003. The hull and mast of the racing yacht will be processed and repurposed, a first-of-its-kind effort for what will likely
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Future Fibres completes work on 76 metre mast for Perini Navi’s latest superyacht. Following almost 18 months in design, development and construction, Future Fibres this week shipped its latest carbon fibre mast to Perini Navi’s La Spezia yard in Italy. Destined for the 60 metre sloop C.2218, as she is currently known, the 75.8
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Quickstep is an Australian Company and approved supplier for the international F‐35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program ‐ the largest military aerospace program in the world, valued at in excess of US$300 billion worldwide. To date more than 68 JSF aircraft have been delivered to the US Department of Defence, and this number
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GE Aviation has begun testing on its new composite fan blades for the GE9X, the next-generation GE90 engine that will power Boeing’s 777X aircraft. This validation test is the first of several testing programs GE has planned this year for the GE9X fan module. The first round of fan blade tests occurred in June
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In the future, Army aircraft may be made of all composite materials, and the Prototype Integration Facility Advanced Composites Laboratory is ready. Part of the Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Centre’s, or AMRDEC’s, Engineering Directorate, the Prototype Integration Facility’s, PIF’s, Advanced Composites Lab has successfully designed and made repairs on damaged composite aircraft
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Northrop Grumman and teammate ATK have completed manufacturing of the backplane support frame (BSF) for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Northrop Grumman is under contract to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for the design and development of the Webb Telescope’s optics, sunshield and spacecraft. When combined with the centre section and wings,
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