Infrastructure

Composites are used all over the world to help construct and repair a wide variety of infrastructure applications, from buildings and bridges to roads to and railways.

Johns Manville Releases the First R-12 Fiberglass Duct Wrap

Johns Manville (JM), a global manufacturer of energy-efficient building products and engineered specialty materials and a Berkshire Hathaway company, announced the release of the first-ever fiberglass duct...

Best Practice for Workplace Safety

What is best practice for workplace safety? Does it entail hard hats, respirators, Tyvek® suits and safety glasses? Intensive training programs? Warning signs and yellow stripes on the floor? An effective...

LM Wind Power Installs 66.6 M Blades on 4mw Offshore Wind Turbine in China

LM Wind Power's first two sets of LM 66.6 blades have been successfully installed on Shanghai Electric Wind Power's 4.0MW-136 wind turbine in China. Shanghai Electric Wind Power's 4MW platform is...

Rolling with the Punches

Composites can help the U.S. build a stronger infrastructure capable of withstanding nature’s blows. Hurricanes, wildfires, floods and tornadoes battered the U.S. in 2017, inflicting millions of dollars...

CAMX 2018: Bigger and Bolder in Dallas

In 2014, when ACMA and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) joined forces to produce a new industry trade show, the two organizations ambitiously aimed to create the...

Composites Keep Winning in Washington

ACMA has a long history as an effective advocate for the composites industry in Washington. For many years the focus was primarily regulatory in nature, assuring that federal requirements for composites...