Industry Digest

Keep up to date with the latest news of interest to the composites industry

Fiberon Wildwood Composite Cladding Features Both Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Fiberon Wildwood Composite Cladding (Fiberon Wildwood) offers architects and designers a variety of natural looking colors and realistic wood textures in the form of sustainably built boards. In fact, Fiberon...

Recyclable FusionFiber® Material Provides Stable Ride in Bicycle Wheelset

The ARD44, the new FusionFiber® wheelset from Chris King Precision Components (Chris King), is the first recyclable carbon wheel made in America. It is the perfect pairing with the company’s well-known...

Alaska Airlines and ZeroAvia are Partnering on a Hydrogen-electric Propulsion System

ZeroAvia and Alaska Airlines are working together to reach the goal of developing the world’s largest zero-emissions aircraft by retrofitting a Bombardier Q400 (also known as the Dash 8-400) regional...

NCC and UK Atomic Energy Authority Developing Fusion-grade Silicon Carbide Ceramic Matrix Composites

HASTE-F is an initiative funded by the Royce Materials Challenge Accelerator Programme (MCAP) and led by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) focused on solutions to engineering challenges in the use of...

KU Researchers and Partners Developing Fiber-reinforced Polymers to Reinforce Dams and Levees

A partnership of researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the...

Kaebon Carbon Fiber Electric Boat Offers Power and Sustainability

Kaebon was founded in 2021 with the purpose of building the world’s lightest motorboats with a focus on cleaner and more sustainable boating. Kai Krause, founder and CEO of Kaebon, said of the EB Eins,...