Engineering and manufacturing specialist, Airframe Designs, has announced a strategic rebrand to AFD Systems, reflecting the company’s expanded lines of business, services, broader sector reach and long-term growth ambitions. The new name reflects the company’s evolution from a niche airframe design consultancy into a market-leading advanced engineering and manufacturing business, serving the worldwide aerospace and […]
SIMPL has launched a new five-year Health and Safety (H&S) strategy to help member companies further improve workplace safety, health and wellbeing across the polymer manufacturing industries. Composites UK is proud to support the SIMPL initiative, which seeks to enhance health and safety standards across the polymer manufacturing industry through collaboration between trade associations, employers, […]
Composite Braiding Ltd (CBL), a leader in advanced automated composite manufacturing, is proud to announce it has been honoured as the “Railway Vehicles & Infrastructure” category winner at the JEC World 2026 Innovation Awards. The award, presented at a gala ceremony in Paris, highlights the company’s breakthrough development of a lightweight thermoplastic composite twin track […]
Base Materials has developed a new proprietary Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool to calculate the carbon footprint of its full product portfolio, supporting customers with robust, transparent environmental data as part of their own sustainability and supply chain reporting. Commissioned through third-party carbon accounting specialists MyCarbon, the bespoke dynamic tool enables Base Materials to generate […]
Kadant UK Limited, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI), has expanded its composite manufacturing services to include high-pressure pressing and laminating of long-length thermoset and thermoplastic composite boards across a broad range of materials and specifications. Kadant UK’s enhanced capabilities enable the fast, reliable production of decorative bonded boards, structural composites, and specialty flat […]
Toray Advanced Composites, a global leader in advanced composite materials, together with project partners Airbus, Daher, and Tarmac Aerosave, has been named the winner of the JEC Innovation Award for Circularity and Recycling for its End-of-Life recycling program. The award was presented during JEC World Premier, held in Paris on January 12 2026, ahead of […]
Leybold supports the EuroTube Foundation with expertise and technology Admittedly, the EuroTube Foundation’s vision sounds particularly appealing in times of delayed trains and congested roads: Swiss researchers want nothing less than to transport people and goods from A to B safely, environmentally friendly, and, above all, extremely quickly with the Hyperloop. The technology is currently […]
Shimadzu’s ALTRACE EDXRF spectrometer offers lab managers high-sensitivity, low-prep elemental analysis with automated throughput and sub-ppm detection. Shimadzu has introduced its latest energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) solution, the ALTRACE spectrometer. Built for high-throughput environments, the ALTRACE provides accurate trace element detection from sodium to uranium using a high-energy 65 kV X-ray tube and proprietary […]
Improving the efficiency of a vacuum system does not just rely on choosing the right vacuum pump. Much of the long-term performance is influenced by how the vacuum process is designed. This includes factors such as energy consumption, productivity, and operating costs. Typically, efficiency is defined not only as the reduction of resource consumption, but […]
Composites UK has announced the launch of a new Technology Dissemination Service, designed to support organisations delivering innovation in composite materials by increasing the visibility, reach and impact of their research and development activities. The new service is aimed at companies, research organisations and consortia involved in UKRI and Innovate UK-funded projects, as well as […]