Mazda's patent was submitted to the German Patent and Trademark Office, according to the World Intellectual Property ...

Safran Landing Systems has produced C/C brake discs for decades, innovating the process to save time, cost, and reduce ...

As an exotic car manufacturer, Lamborghini is accustomed to building small numbers of extremely expensive and advanced supercars. It’s part of what makes Lamborghinis cool – you don’t see them every ...

As materials go, carbon fiber has an ideal blend of high strength and low weight. Until recently, it’s also had an astronomically high price tag, thanks in part to the labor intensive manufacturing ...

Although many readers of CW use carbon fiber, few know much about how it is made. That should surprise no one. Carbon fiber producers are tight-lipped about how their product is manufactured. Each ...

Scientists at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology have devised a carbon fiber fabrication process that they say is considerably quicker and easier than the conventional method.

A new, green process developed to make carbon fiber that forms ablative rocket nozzles and heat shields could be of interest to NASA, which has a dwindling stockpile of cellulose rayon fiber that ...

LIVONIA, MICH. (Dec. 21, 10:50 a.m. ET) — At the Plastics in Lightweight Vehicles conference, Plasan Carbon Composites Inc.'s chief technology officer, Gary Lownsdale, gave more details about a new ...

Carbon fibers are usually produced on an industrial scale from polyacrylonitrile (PAN). The stabilization and carbonization of the fibers takes place with long dwell times in high-temperature furnaces ...

Common material such as polyethylene used in plastic bags could be turned into something far more valuable through a new process. Common material such as polyethylene used in plastic bags could be ...

The recycled carbon fiber market is driven by OEMs' sustainability goals, regulatory pressures, and cost advantages over ...

With its combination of lightness and strength, carbon fiber is being used in a growing range of aerospace and automotive applications. Unfortunately, the weave isn't easily recyclable, unlike more ...