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Articles in May 2004 issue of Advanced Materials & Composites News

• General Aviation Billings, Shipments Increase.
• SAMPE 2004 Virtual Career Center Announcement!
• Energy Industry Letter Calls for Passage of Bill with PTC and Other Energy Credits.
• Freedonia - U.S. Nanocomposite Demand to Approach 11 Billion Pounds by 2020.
• Allasso, US Global Nanospace Form Strategic Alliance in Nanofibers.
• Eastman Increases Prices for Unsaturated Polyester and Vinyl Ester Resins for Composites and Casting.
• SAMPE 2004 HIGHLIGHTS - 6 of 7.
• Dow Announces Price Increase for Derakane Epoxy Vinyl Ester Resins in U.S. and Canada.
• Toray Carbon Fibers America Announces New Technical Center.
• Forbes Magazine Features Innovative Solutions To Prevent Power Blackouts.
• Qantas Signs Orders for 12 Blended Winglet Shipsets with Options for 42 Additional Shipsets.
• Eastman to Sell Portions of CASPI Segment, Including Unsaturated Polyester Business.
• Advanced Composites Prominent on Europe's Latest Fighter By Gary Turner, TRC Munich, International Correspondent.
• Goodrich Reports Higher Quarterly Sales, Profits.
• Advanced Composites 40% of Studies' Global 5.6 Million Tonne Composites Market.
• Composite Technology Announces Availability of PLS-CADD Cable Model for Its Revolutionary ACCC Conductor.
• Boeing Acquires UAV Developer Frontier Systems Inc.
• Ballard Reports Slightly Lower Demand for Carbon Fiber Products.
• Interplastic Corporation's Thermoset Resins Division Announces A Price Increase for Composites, and More.
• SAMPE 2004 HIGHLIGHTS - 7 of 7.
• Avtec Industries' Fire-Retardant Coatings Receive ICC Approval.
• Zoltek Reports Carbon Fiber Sales Increase, Restarting Abilene Carbon Fiber plant.
• Carbon Nanofiber Bridge "Lights Up" SAMPE Conference.
• Reichhold Names Mr. Yasuji Tsunekawa Board Chairman.
• Flint Hills Resources, LLC, Finalized the Acquisition of Performance Chemicals Business Assets from BP.
• Carbon fiber - Will it be Available and Where are Prices Going?
• Marine Products Corporation Reports Increased Profits, Sales from FRP Boat Line.
• Kestrel's Carbon Fiber & Epoxy Road Bike IS Ultralight.
• Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. Announces First-Quarter 2004 Results.
• Dynetek Achieves Highest Q1 Revenue in Company History, Based on CFRP Pressure Vessel Programs.
• Core Molding Technologies Reports Profit Improvement in its SMCs.
• Solent Composite Systems to Focus on Wind Energy.
• Recycled Newspaper Fiber Performs as a Possible Reinforcement for "Green" Composites.
• Fulcrum Composites announces New Licensee for Thermoplastic Composite Technology to GaMra Composites.
• Boeing Names Toray Industries to 7E7 Team for CFRP Composite Prepregs.
• DSM Dyneema Opens New Production Line in U.S. to Produce Fiber and Unidirectional Bullet-Resistant Material.
• Reichhold Announces Price Increases on Resins for Coatings.
• A Revolution in Building Materials May Have Started in Composites, but Not FRP.
• New Government Security Portal Demo and Beta Launch Set for GSA Expo.
• France's Bordeaux-Aquitaine Region Gaining Strength on World Market for Aerospace and Aeronautics.
• NanoMaterial Leader Zyvex Introduces Carbon Nanotube-Based Additives for Polyurethanes.
• EWEA Forecasts 75 GW of Installed Wind Power by 2010.
• Eikos Gets Air Force Contract to Develop Transparent Carbon Nanotubes for Aircraft Canopies.
• World's Biggest Wind Farm Contender, Update.
• UMR & Boeing Team to Develop New Manufacturing Methods for Aero Industry and USAF.
• LM Glasfiber Launches the World's Largest FRP Wind Turbine Rotor Blade.
• F-35 Production Facilities Near Completion at Lockheed Martin.
• Ducommun Incorporated Announces $5 Million Contract for Erickson Air-Crane S-64 Main Rotor Blades.
• Stratasys Revises May 12 Announcement of Wohlers Report 2004 Findings.
• ElkCorp Announces Board Approval for Second Composite Lumber Facility; Expansion Is a Key Milestone in ElkCorp's Growth Strategy.
• Security Airships May Observe US Borders.
• Advanced Strain Gauge Developed to Warn of Structural Damage.
• Cam Elyaf A.S Develops New PA Glass Fiber for the Food Contact Applications.
• U.S. Department of Energy Launches Phase I of $2.6 Million Program Funding With Quantum to Develop Next Generation Hydrogen Storage Technology.
• M.C.Gill to Help Develop Composites Merit Badge for Boy Scouts.
• Resin Systems Inc. Moves toward Production of Rstandard Composite Utility Poles.
• Ecel Energy Prepares to Issue 500-MW Wind RFP - Big Potential for FRP Blades.
• Composites Africa 2004 Set for August.
• Martin Grimnes, Founder of Brunswick Technologies Inc., Gets $250,000 to Develop New Company.
• Interplastic Corporation and the ACMA Announce 2003 Scholarship Winners.
• Exel's Pole Sales Exceed 30 Million Pairs.
• Wind Energy Choice Brought to Pennsylvania Customers by PECO and Community Energy; First Utility Wind Energy Product in Pennsylvania.
• Intertech Announces Hamburg Conference: The Global Outlook for Carbon Fiber 2004.
• Carbon Fiber Composite Mini Masts Growing on Smaller Racing Sailboats.
• Vanguard to Build OPTUS Reflector.
• Dow Reports Substantial Earnings Improvement for the First Quarter of 2004.
• Johns Manville Offers New Spray-Up Roving for UPR Composites.
• New Fiberglass Composite Material for Telephone and Power Poles Described.
• Pennsylvania Hosts Nanotechnology Conference May 25-26, 2004.
• International SAMPE Technical Conference in San Diego This November 2004 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Abstracts Due by May 24.
• SAMPE 2004 HIGHLIGHTS - 1 of 7.
• Mold-Masters Limited Set to Open Plant in China.
• New Huntsman Araldite Epoxy Adhesive Introduced for Bonding Large Sandwich Panels.
• Adam Aircraft Announces $150 Million Order for Its New Breed of Personal Jets.
• Clothing Producer Hemptown Enters Biotech Industry Agreement to Develop Enzyme Process to Manufacture Hemp Fabric.
• Reichhold Announces Price Increase for Unsaturated Polyester Resins in Latin America.
• Owens Corning Reports First Quarter 2004 Results.
• Talon Composites Delivers Proprietary Talbor MMC Material to NAC International To Support Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel in the United States and China.
• Kevin Schott Appointed CFO at Zoltek.
• EuroNanoTex 2004 Announces New Speakers.