2024 State of the Industry Report
The U.S. economy did better than expected in 2023, avoiding a recession that many experts predicted. Inflation fell, jobs increased and manufacturing investments spiked. But if there’s a theme for 2024 it...
Promising Polymers
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, has manufactured more than 40,000 nacelles for dozens of military and commercial aircraft programs. Building on that expertise, a team at the aerospace and defense supplier...
GFRP Tower Hit New Heights
A theory about the wireless transmission of energy, developed by inventor Nikola Tesla more than a century ago, helped pave the way for the recent construction of the world’s largest freestanding GFRP tower...
EVTOLs Closer to Lift Off
Visitors to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris may have a new option for traveling from Charles de Gaulle Airport to the city – an electric air taxi. Volocopter, a German-based advanced air mobility (AAM)...
Benchmark Your Company’s Sustainability Program
After launching ACMA’s sustainability program in 2020, we learned how important it is to ask industry members the right questions and listen carefully to their responses. The association’s objective is to...
Be an Industry Leader, Not a Lagger
Four-time Stanley Cup winner Wayne Gretsky is well-known for saying, “Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” The quote is frequently used because it’s true. Most of us are good at...
