Sustainability Starts with an LCA
Any sustainability project should start with a lifecycle assessment (LCA) no matter your objective – developing the environmental product declarations (EPDs) required for construction products, decarbonizing...
Innovators Should Consider R&D Tax Advantages
As ACMA members continue to make advancements in manufacturing and recycling composites, the benefits of innovation available under U.S. tax law should not be ignored. Federal tax law provides incentives for...
ACMA Offers a Wealth of Information
In September, I attended a fabulous networking and educational event sponsored by the Women in the Composites Industry group and hosted by Owens Corning at its Science & Technology Center in Ohio. More...
3D-Printed Tooling Is Taking Off
A decade ago, manufacturing large composite tooling was generally an expensive, months-long process. But things began to change in 2014, when the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
New Method of Recycling Carbon Fiber Strengthens the Material
Recycling carbon fiber has been a topic of great interest in the composite's community and beyond. A scientist at the University of South Wales Canberra (UNSW) developed a process to recycle carbon fiber...
Opportunities in Thermoplastic Pultrusion
Pultrusion offers many advantages for companies that want to produce consistent, high-strength and dimensionally accurate parts through a highly automated system. Thermoset matrices have been the material of...
