VIP Treatment

Boat hulls and wind blades may be the first applications that come to mind when people think about vacuum infusion processing (VIP). But other markets aside from marine and wind energy have turned to the...

Smoother Sailing for Composites Supply Chain

Two years ago, composites companies were struggling with multiple issues when trying to obtain the supplies and equipment they needed to maintain their operations. Even when they could procure them, it was a...

Bright Horizons for ACMA as My Era Ends

When I became connected with ACMA in 2015, I had no idea how involved I would become in the association. I started participating on committees, joined the board of directors, led the Marketing &...

Is There an EPD in Your Future?

The Biden Administration, partially in response to goals and requirements set by Congress, is pressing infrastructure owners and builders to decrease the embodied carbon associated with building and operating...

Wind Blades of a Different Stripe

Launched in September 2020, the ZEBRA (Zero wastE Blade ReseArch) project is led by French research center IRT Jules Verne, with partners that include resin manufacturer Arkema, R&D center CANOE, wind farm...