Automated fibre placement (AFP) is emerging as a highly efficient method for manufacturing thermoplastic composite structures, particularly in the aerospace and high-performance engineering sectors.

GKN Aerospace has become the first company in the UK to use one of the British National Composites Centre (NCC)'s new automated fiber placement machines. Automation of composite manufacturing in ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Automated Tape Laying machines are used in the manufacture of high-quality audio and videotapes. These devices are capable of pre-wetting, which means that they can reproduce ...

At JEC World 2023, AZoMaterials spoke with Thorsten Groene, CEO & Co-Founder of Cevotec, about their Fiber Patch Placement technology and how the company has continued to grow and evolve. We at ...

Automated dry fiber placement (DFP) and out-of-autoclave processes are listed as the key parameters that will affect the cost of future aerospace composites in the 2015 report, “Carbon composites are ...

Broetje-Automation has delivered the innovative Automated Fiber Placement System “STAXX One” to VIC-K, a leading international provider of products and services to the aerospace, defense, energy, and ...

The Advanced Material and Manufacturing Technology Innovation Center (AMMTIC) is a division of LIFT and is where the new AFP equipment will be located. This research center will comprise 25,000 sq. ft ...

To ensure that the speed of composites fabrication keeps pace with customer demand, the ability to inspect and monitor composite part quality must become an integral part of high-rate part ...

Aircraft manufacturers have been benefiting from thermoplastic composites in the form of a tough, durable structural material for more than 15 years and aerospace design allowable databases are ...

Mukilteo-based aerospace-engineering firm Electroimpact has won the contract to build the automated fiber placement (AFP) machines and systems that Boeing will use to produce the giant carbon-fiber ...

Introducing Fiber, the first 3D printer with AFP continuous carbon fiber reinforcement using high temperature resistant PEEK and PEKK, designed to deliver industrial fiber performance on the desktop ...