Sports & Recreation

From football helmets to hockey sticks to kayaks to bobsleds, composite materials help athletes reach their highest performance capabilities and provide durable, lightweight equipment for weekend warriors.

Engineers at MSU Fabricated a Carbon Fiber Hand Brace to Get a Player Back for March Madness

Michigan State University’s Biomechanical Design Research Lab, Composite Materials and Structures Center, and the MSU-Fraunhofer Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies worked together to fabricate a...

Guerrilla Gravity is Using Its Patent-Pending Revved Carbon Technology to Build Carbon Fiber Bicycle Frames

Revved frames are fused during a 30-minute cycle, saving both time and money in production. Revved Carbon Technology, which has been in development and testing at Guerrilla Gravity (GG) for the last three...

3D Printing Fast Tracks Bike Production

Silicon Valley-based AREVO, which develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing of composite parts, has generated excitement with the design and production of an all-terrain city bike –...

Southern Spars Announced It Will Be Supplying the Rig to the INEOS TEAM UK for the Upcoming America’s Cup

The America’s Cup is the world’s greatest sailing regatta, with the next edition taking place in 2021 in Auckland, the home of Southern Spars. As the competition returns to their home soil, Southern Spars...

Novel Sensors Could Enable Smarter Textiles

A team of engineers at the University of Delaware is developing next-generation smart textiles by creating flexible carbon nanotube composite coatings on a wide range of fibers, including cotton, nylon and...

AOC and Aliancys Announced the Creation of a New Combined Company

On August 1st, 2018, AOC and Aliancys announced the creation of a new combined company, which will be named “AOC Aliancys.” The merger establishes the two companies joining forces to form a leading global...