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AUGUST 2015 30 CompositesWorld SHOW PREVIEW fame and plasma surface treatments to improve bonding, and new work on reversible bonded joints, using nano-ferromag- netic particles. An entirely new session this year, featuring the hot topics of additive manufacturing & 3D printing, is expected to be well- attended. Te ever-popular Opportunities and Challenges with Carbon Composites session will feature a paper on preforming, 3D woven composites, lightweighting structural components, as well as a talk on composite powertrain components on the US Department of Energy project, the Multi Material Lightweight Vehicle (MMLV), developed by Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, MI, US) and Magna Interna- tional (Aurora, ON, Canada). Also of special interest are two new papers on systems for inline produc- tion of CFRP prepreg — one developed by Mitsubishi Rayon Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) and another by the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (Pfnztal, Germany) — which hold the promise of doing for carbon fber prepreg what inline compounded (ILC) direct long fber thermoplastics (D-LFTs) did for compression-molded PP and polyamide (PA, also called nylon) in the late 1990s through mid-2000s. Te Nanocomposites session also is larger than usual this year, with a strong focus on newer nanocellulose and nanosilica parti- cles. Always prominent at the SPE ACCE is the Virtual Prototyping & Testing session, which encompasses computer-aided simula- tion as well as physical part testing. Tis year's session doesn't Walton Process Technologies, Inc. Best Customer Service in The Industry www.autoclaves.com Mansfield TX 682-518-9002 Service/Repair Retrofit/Relocate Autoclaves Bond Presses Batch Process Controls Ovens Parts Plant tour Pre-conference social events will include a tour of the new world headquarters — shown here is the company's main atrium — for composites compounder/molder Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) in nearby Auburn Hills. Source | Continental Structural Plastics