Advanced Materials & Composites News

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Articles in March 2004 issue of Advanced Materials & Composites News

• Hybrid-Composite Beam System may be the Ticket for High-Speed Rail Bridges - PART 3 OF 3.
• Randy's Adds Yukon Unit to Line, with Carbon Composite Clutch.
• US Global Nanospace Cooperating With SEC to Answer Request for Information, Company Challenged by Website Called Our-Street.Com.
• Sunrise Polymers in India Aims to Increase Exports.
• AOC Announces Price Increase.
• Century Engineering Unveils Breakthrough Manufacturing Process.
• Wind Energy Could Power Every Home in Europe by 2020.
• Resin Systems Signs Long-term Composite Pole Distribution Agreement.
• Robots Improve Productivity at Glasland Industries.
• Acrosoma Pultrudes Tonnes of Large Panels for Truck Trailers, and Much More.
• Dynetek Gets Orders for Composite CNG Systems for Garbage, Refuse Trucks.
• Matrix Introduces High-Performance SS Coupe, Priced at $175,000 and Up.
• Dynetek Industries Ltd. Announces Contract for Hydrogen Storage Systems Bound for Australian Demonstration Project.
• Dynetek Industries Ltd. to Deliver Hydrogen Fuel Storage Systems to Ford Motor Company.
• NASA Technology Briefings Planned for SAMPE 2004 Symposium, Will Cover NASA's Advanced Materials Technology Programs.
• The National Composite Center Introduces New Aerospace And Defense Company And Showcases Key Technologies.
• TRB Reports Updates:.
• ACMA Sets Regional Conferences in Seattle and Portland, Maine.
• U.S. Department of Energy - Inventions & Innovation News.
• Dow Spins Off Fulcrum Technology and Forms New Company, Fulcrum Composites Inc.
• Bill Containing Stopgap PTC Stalls in Senate; IRS Keeps PTC Level at 1.8 Cents Per Kilowatt-Hour.
• JEC Conducts Market Survey: Structure and Dynamics of the Global Composites Industry.
• Escalating Feedstock Prices Continue to Compress Epoxy Margins.
• Sales of New FRTP Bread Pans Rise Rapidly in Europe - PART 1 OF 2.
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Wins NSF Career Award.
• XRD, X-Ray Diffraction, Residual Stress Analysis, Stress Analysis, NDT.
• In California, Back-Up Wind Generation Seen as Uneconomical.
• B&W Fiberglass Company Moving to Shelby, NC.
• Bris Sales Introduces Wide-Window Woven Roving.
• Summit of China Economic Development, 21-22 May 2004, Beijing, China Approved by The State Council of P.R.China.
• Magnetically-Coupled Self-Cleaning Filter Simplifies Liquid Filtration.
• DuPont Composite Recycle Technology Captures Environmental Award.
• Hospital Gets Fire-Resistant FRP Composites Helipad.
• Emcore Wins Boeing Satellite Platform.
• WESTEC - North America's Largest Annual Manufacturing & Metalworking Event March 22-25, 2004 at the Los Angeles Convention Center - Los Angeles, Calif.
• Gamesa Negotiating First UK Wind Turbine Order.
• US Global Nanospace Says that Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Purchases its Radomes.
• Vestas Upbeat in Spite of Flat Profits in Wind Business.
• Jordan Breaks New Ground With Launch of Air Jordan XIX Delivering the World's Finest Performance Basketball Shoe.
• Advanced Glassfiber Yarns LLC Gets Okay for Reorganization Plan.
• Resin Systems Signs Long-term Composite Utilities Distribution Agreement.
• Vestas, NEG Micon Announces Results of Merger in North Anerica.
• Advanced Composites Training Company Joins Canadian Arrow Sponsor Team.
• UMass Lowell Plans $23M Nanotech Center.
• Johns Manville Appoints Dr. Michael Effing to Vice President and General Manager Global Reinforcements.
• ATK Awarded Contracts for $97 Million to Supply Rocket Motors.
• Sales of New FRTP Bread Pans Rise Rapidly in Europe - PART 2 OF 2.
• Raytheon Projects More Huntsville Work If Missile Pact Awarded.
• Teal Group Predicts Some 2,973 Jet Combat Aircraft Worth $142.4 Billion Will be Built in 2004-2013.
• U.K. Energy Minister Slated for Global Windpower in Chicago.
• CCP Announces Del Wilkinson as Senior VP, to Plan Future Strategies and Paul Colonna to Succeed Wilkinson as VP-Composites Group.
• Exel Sees Growth of Nordic Fitness Sports Concept.
• ACI's 2004 Manual of Concrete Practice (MCP).
• Resin Systems Announces Utility Pole Order.
• USEC Announces Site of its Advanced American Centrifuge Plant is Piketon, Ohio - PART 1 OF 2.
• Jetstar Selects Goodrich as Preferred Supplier of Wheels and Carbon Brakes for A320 Fleet.
• Techfab Introduces C-Grid Short Roll Kits to Meet Cement and Concrete Reinforcement Demands.
• Fibreforce Tops UK in Pultruded Composite Profiles, Explores New Markets.
• Centek Upgrades Marine Muffler Performance by Switching to AOC's Vipel K-190 Resin.
• GTI Testing Laboratories Receives A2LA Accreditation for Composites Pressure Vessels and More.
• World Trade Center Developer Issues Wind RFQ.
• JEC COMPOSITES SHOW Travel Tip.
• Dynetek Industries Ltd. Delivers Hydrogen Fuel Storage System to MAZDA.
• Composite Technology Specialist Exel Oyj Hit the Marks in Skiing Season.
• New Use Found for Old FRP Wind Turbine Blades.
• LAEDC Says Its Time for a Fresh Look at Manufacturing and Aerospace in Southern California, Which Has the Largest Hub of Factory Jobs - Impacts Composites Industry Here.
• Composite Fibers with Carbon Nanotubes Offer Improved Mechanical & Electrical Properties - A New Class of Fibers.
• Boeing Reports First Quarter Deliveries.
• Mirabella V Extends Barriers of Composite Ship Technology.
• Ontario Firm's Revolutionary Tri-Hull Boat Design Earns U.S. Patent.
• TXU Energy Customers Receive Record Amount of Wind Energy; Strong Winds Double Electric Output.
• Fanuc Robotics Reviews Uses for Composites Processors.
• Professor Schlarb elected as President of SAMPE Deutschland.
• Gamesa Boosts Profit and Sales.
• Great Lakes Announces Price Increase for a Range of Brominated Flame Retardants.
• Alliant Techsystems Hosts Job Fair in Dallas February 26-28.
• USEC Announces Site of its Advanced American Centrifuge Plant is Piketon, Ohio - PART 2 OF 2.
• Glastic Corporation and Plasco Set Up Composites Custom Molding JV in Mexico, U.S.
• Our Tests Show No Degradation of Zylon's Stretch Resistance from Heat and Humidity, Says Toyobo.
• First National Adds Verastegui Wind Turbine to Portfolio.