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NEWS 19 CompositesWorld.com Elemental Sports Car Shapes Up F148HM24 HYBRID MILL 120 Technology Drive • Troutman, NC 28166 www.cronsrud.com © Copyright 2017, C.R. Onsrud Incorporated. All rights reserved. Advanced Materials • Non-Ferrous Metals High-Speed Machining • Large Part/Envelope Machining Accurately machined parts – delivered on time, for a competitive cost is what drives the automotive and transportation industries, and C.R. Onsrud provides that reliability from our U.S. made, world class machine tools. The Hybrid Mill is a unique high speed CNC machining center, engineered and built to deliver the rigidity and accuracy of a CNC mill, with the large work envelope of a high speed CNC router. Capable of 5-axis machining and configured with twin tables for fast changeover, this machining hybrid is fully enclosed for chip containment. Powered by: BIZ BRIEF On April 25, PlastiComp Inc. (Winona, MN, US) announced it had completed installa- tion of an additional pultrusion production line at its Winona location. The line will be dedicated to manufacturing long carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite pellets. The firm's initial production line dedicated to the same came online in 2014, and it operates four others to manufacture long glass fiber products. "In recent years, we have experienced continuous growth in demand for our long carbon fiber-reinforced composite materials," says Eric Wollan, VP and COO at PlastiComp. "This additional, higher-vol- ume carbon fiber pultrusion line will triple PlastiComp's capacity for producing long carbon fiber products to ensure an uninter- ruptable supply chain for our partners." Wollan says that carbon fiber's small filament diameter and conductivity make it a bit more challenging to manufacture composite pellets than other types of fiber. To provide a safe operating environment and minimize operational downtime, PlastiComp houses these pultrusion lines in self-contained areas, equipped with iso- lated electrical and air-handling systems. "PlastiComp is able to completely melt- impregnate continuous tows of carbon fiber with 12,000 to 50,000 filaments," says Wollan. "This capability allows us to offer a broad range of composite material solutions that we tailor to meet customer specific design and performance require- ments." Marketed under PlastiComp's Complēt trade name, the pellets feature from 15 to 50%, by weight, long carbon fiber re- inforcement combined impregnated with a broad range of thermoplastic matrices, ranging from polypropylene to PEEK. The materials are conductive (<10E5 ohms- per-square), giving them excellent surface and volume resistivity properties and up to 80 dB of shielding effectiveness against electromagnetic interference. The company also has a long-fiber composites product line that combines glass fiber and carbon fiber together into a single pellet solution. These hybrid long glass/carbon products are intended to bridge the performance/price gap between all-glass and all-carbon fiber reinforced materials. Henkel Corp.'s (Dusseldorf, Germany) adhesive technologies business unit has started construction of a new production facility for aerospace applications at its site in Montornès del Vallès, Spain. The new line is expected to meet growing demand for high-impact solutions that support lightweighting and automation, key trends in the global aerospace industry. The facility will include new buildings and equipment for additional production and warehouse capacities. The first customer deliveries are projected for 2019. "The global demand for passenger aircraft is expected to double by 2034, making this a very at- tractive growth market for us," says Henkel executive VP Jan-Dirk Auris. BIZ BRIEF