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TRENDS OCTOBER 2017 20 CompositesWorld High Performance Tooling for the Composites Industry • Steel • Invar • NVD Nickel • Aluminum • Precision Machining composites@webermfg.ca webermfg.ca Nickel Vapor Deposition capability has led us to be the leading supplier for shell tooling with integrated heating. Ideal for Out of Autoclave, Rotational Molding or Vacuum Infusion. Composite CF parts are complex Weber Knows... Weber Delivers... Established in 2012, the Aachen Center for Integrative Lightweight Production (Achener Zentrum für integrativen Leichtbau or AZL) of RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany) was created to develop breakthrough technologies for mass production of lightweight composite parts. AZL brings together eight other institutes that cover the entire composites value chain — from materials science to machining — with a network of more than 80 companies from 21 countries involved in lightweight production. AZL comprises two separate entities. One, AZL of RWTH Aachen University, conducts R&D; in light- weight products, materials, production processes and systems using the latest full-scale machines and automation systems. The other, AZL Aachen GmbH, offers services in engineering, project management, networking and business development that enable close cooperation between industry and the research institutes AZL has assembled at RWTH Aachen Campus. Examples of AZL's on campus initiatives include Mubea's (Attendorn, Germany) establishment of the Mubea Centre for Lightweight Design in the Production Engineering Cluster, which will support its lightweight composites production at subsidiary Carbo Tech (Salzburg, Austria). Also installed on campus is Schuler's (Göppingen, Germany) new 1,800-ton press, which is featured in the iComposite 4.0 project's self- regulating production system. This new system claims cost savings by producing near net shape parts. It uses additive fiber spraying to create preforms, automated resin injec- tion (HP-RTM) and an IIoT-networked intelligent production system that includes control of subsequent processes by RFID chips integrated into the composite parts. AZL member companies and institutes cooperate in cost-sharing for R&D; and business development. In addition to more than 100 publicly funded research projects, AZL's Open Innovation approach also includes joint partner proj- ects and studies, such as the following: • New Potential for Composite Technologies in Building & Infrastructure AZL propels industrialized composites Source | AZL

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