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.

50th Anniversary of Lunar Landing Inspires Motorbike Designer to Use Composites

Italian designers and manufacturers Carboni e Metalli launched The Lunar Project motorbike in homage to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, combining vintage details such as a steel frame and a 2-stroke...

Airstream Builds a New NEST

Airstream travel trailers are easily recognized by their signature style: a shiny, aluminum exterior with rounded roof lines. But the company has varied this look with its newest model, Nest by Airstream....

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...