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Articles in September 2003 issue of Advanced Materials & Composites News

• Attention IACC Yacht Owners.
• FBI Issues Guide to Hidden Weapons, Including FRP Composites.
• Largest British Utility Moving into Renewable Energy, Including Wind Energy.
• Boeing Targets Malaysian Airline System for 7E7.
• Qinetiq Developing Stealth Wind Turbine Blades.
• AWEA Increases 2003 Forecast for U.S. Wind Business.
• IABSE Releases Book on FRP Composites for Bridges.
• Chrysler Group Names ASC Gold Award Winner for Its Work on the Dodge Viper.
• Nanotubes Enhance Ceramic Composite Performance.
• 3rd Annual SPE Automotive Composites Conference & Exposition (ACCE) Troy, Michigan Quadrant Plastic Composites Introduces its Automotive Thermoplastics Lightweight, Tunable GMT Composites to U.S.
• Hy-Bor Boron and Carbon Fibers in Epoxy Prepreg Provide Performance and 'Feel' to World's Lightest Production Bike Frame.
• HITCO Carbon Composites Appoints New COO & VP.
• ACMBS-IV Conference -- Call for papers.
• Composite Technology Engages Kinectrics for Conductor Tests.
• CFA BECOMES ACMA - Exhibitor Information for Composites 2003.
• Reichhold Announces Price Increase for Unsaturated Polyester Resins in the U.S., Canada & Mexico.
• Mu[+ or -]oz Group to Discuss Newly Acquired Carbon Fiber Technology.
• Mann+Hummel Produces World's First Plastic Oil Module.
• Zipp Speed Weaponry's Carbon Fiber Composites Bike Wheels Aid Tour de France 4th-Place Finisher.
• Famous NIMBYs Protest Wind Turbines Off Cape Cod.
• On-Site, Direct Read, Time-Weighted Average (TWA) Styrene Monitoring Within the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) Levels.
• CFA Solicits ACE Entries - Deadline Extended to September 5th.
• IsoTruss Structures Completes $400K Equity Financing for Composites Programs.
• Composite Technology to Release Composite Cable Solution for Overloaded Electrical Grid.
• Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics Acquires Gividi USA.
• Sparta Developing CFRP Decklid Inner Panel for New Ford GT.
• Vistagy Announces New Training Class for FiberSIM 4.0 Software for FRP Composites Design.
• Manufacturers Selling Wind Turbines to Southern Europe.
• Aeroconseil Conversion Program Panel Detailing Handled by M.C. Gill Europe Ltd. in Northern Ireland.
• EPTA Seminar on Pultrusion for Those New to the Process.
• China Establishes National Base for Wind and Solar Energy Development.
• Reichhold Announces Plans to Expand Morris UPR Manufacturing Site.
• Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Pascagoula, Mississippi.
• Military -- Stopping bullets cold . . . Thanks to ORNL Research on Composite Armor.
• Owens Corning Reports Second Quarter 2003 Financial Results.
• 'Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology' - Part 2 of this Comprehensive Reference Now Available from Wiley.
• Ted Reinhart Passed Away.
• DIAB Presents Composites 'Core College' September 10.
• Japan May Make Boeing's 7E7 'Dreamliner' a National Project.
• Ground Broken Near Bowling Green for First Ohio Utility Size 'Wind Farm' - Two Turbines to Be Completed This Year.
• SAMPE UK/Ireland Chapter co hosting Conference.
• Navy Confirms Compression Optimized Hardwire Steel Reinforced Composites.
• Composite Technology Wraps New ACCC Electrical Transmission Conductor at General Cable.
• Outstanding Technical Paper Award Winner Announced at SAMPE 2003/Dayton Technical Conference.
• Fire and Architectural Industry Programming at Composites 2003.
• New IABSE Publication - Use of Fibre Reinforced Polymers in Bridge Construction.
• Ciba Specialty Chemicals Talks UV Curing at Composites 2003, October 1-3 in Anaheim.
• SEMA to Launch International Auto Salon East.
• Kline to Issue New Edition of High-Temperature Plastics Market Analysis.
• Carbon Nanoparticles Reinforce Steel in Japan.
• Quadrant Plastic Composites Media Briefing Set for SPE Automotive Conference in September.
• Suzlon Installs First Wind Turbines in U.S.
• Hexcel Corp Filed 10-Q Report for 2nd Qtr and YTD 2003 (Excerpts).
• Ultimate Aircraft Composites Names Aviv Tzur New CEO.
• USC and CTC Collaborate on Lightweight Carbon & Glass Fiber Composite Core for Electrical Transmission Lines.
• New Offshore Wind Farms Progressing Quickly.
• HITCO Builds on Nozzle Development Successes.
• Sika Automotive Introduces New, Updated Website.
• Electrical Transmission Cable - 3M Says it Offers Three Times the Efficiency.
• ATK Composites and Nozzle Perform on Boeing Delta IV, First Delta IV Mission to Use ATK on All Stages.
• Mass Megawatts Wind Power Reports 10 Cents per Share Net Loss for Three Months Ending July 31, 2003.
• ATK Propulsion and Composite technologies Support Launch of Reconnaissance Satellite Aboard Titan IV B Rocket.
• New Stealth-Ship Radar in CFRP Composite Housing to Rotate on Timken Bearings.
• NASA New England Outreach Center Honors Small Business, Foster-Miller, Inc.
• Gamesa Considers Entry Into British Wind Market.
• DOE Phase 1 Awards - SBIR and STTR.
• Radix Marine to Acquire High-Speed Unmanned Patrol Watercraft.
• Zoltek Reports Fiscal Third Quarter 2003 Loss.
• HK Research's New Website Offers Valuable Gel Coat Information.
• Wind Energy Offers to Meet Future Global Power Need.
• Judge Says Wind Test Tower OK Off Cape Cod.
• Wind and Solar Energy Will Help Asia.
• Testing of a 19-Year-Old GRP Pressure Pipe Proves Durability.
• Sponge Fibers Inspire High-Tech Fiber-Optic Cables.
• Researchers Make Stronger, More Efficient Metal by Making it Flow.
• Cronkite Pulls Anti-Cape Wind Ads.
• Tokyo Debuts FRP Composite CowParade in Asia.
• Saint-Gobain Reinforcements at AVK-TV Conference.
• RIBcraft USA to Introduce the 'Mitigator' - the World's Most Advanced Rigid Inflatable Boat.
• Hobas Engineering Opens New laboratory for Long-Term Tests on Pipe.