Industry Digest

Over the past few years, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has made many headlines with its collaboration with Cincinnati Inc. on Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) technology, which recently produced the...

Teijin Limited has agreed to acquire Continental Structural Plastics Holdings Corporation (CSP), based in Auburn Hills, Mich., for $825 million. Under the terms of the agreement, CSP will become a wholly...

A team of researchers led by the University of Birmingham (UK) and Harbin Institute of Technology (China) have developed a method of allowing composite materials used in aircraft and satellites to self-heal...

Proterra, a designer and manufacturer of zero-emission vehicles, recently unveiled its Catalyst E2 electric bus series. The bus’s 660kWh battery pack, combined with its carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP)...

For this year’s U.S. Open, the world's largest tennis-specific stadium, Arthur Ashe Stadium, got a makeover. In response to the need to avoid rain delays, the United States Tennis Association (USTA)...

On September 8, Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, known as VSS Unity, took off for the first time. The VSS Unity is an all-carbon composite rocket plane designed by Scaled Composites. Back in February,...