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JEC World 2025 highlights: Evolving recycling and biomaterials technologies
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
CW technical editor Hannah Mason shares sustainability-focused composites trade show highlights featuring maturation, scale-up, new partnerships, and new technologies in biomaterials and recycling.
Don’t Waste Your Metals: Reclaim for Cost-Effectiveness
Lori Beckman | Products Finishing
Reclaiming metals in the electroplating process offers many benefits such as lower operation costs, waste minimization and environmental sustainability. Choosing the right process results in the best return on investment.
NASF/AESF Foundation Research Project 121: Sustainability Metrics System, Sustainable Metal Finishing
| Products Finishing
The main effort of this white paper/project focused on the development of a set of digital twins using PINN technology with applications on electroplating systems.
Moving toward sustainable automotive parts manufacturing
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
How can the automotive supply chain prepare for future sustainability requirements? Tier 1 Kautex Textron discusses emissions reduction, design for circularity and transition to recycled/bio-based plastics.
German Automotive Supplier Buckles Up for a Greener Coating Process
Lori Beckman | Products Finishing
To implement environmentally friendly materials and practices, automotive seat belt supplier ZF Lifetech upgraded its in-house galvanizing process with an advanced trivalent chromium-based system.
Energy-Curable Coatings in the Metal and Coil Industries
| Products Finishing
Coatings must be cured properly with strict adherence to the specifications provided by the coatings manufacturer for optimal protection performance and aesthetics.
Inside the Process of Cutting Tool Recycling
Hannah Mason | Modern Machine Shop
Global Tungsten & Powders, part of the Ceratizit Group, sheds light on the processing steps that convert a shop’s used inserts into new tools and other applications.
Curtiss-Wright Completes Acquisition of Ultra Energy
| Valve Magazine
Ultra Energy offers a diverse portfolio of monitoring tools and protection systems for nuclear facilities.
PUR composite sandwich panels for 3D automotive parts, high-volume panels and more
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
At its U.S. sites, Ascorium produces glass fiber/PUR 3D parts via semi-automated molding, high-volume flat panels via a continuous line while working toward bio-based PUR and recycling.
Evolving natural fiber technology to meet industry sustainability needs
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
From flax fiber composite boats to RV exterior panels to a circularity model with partnerships in various end markets, Greenboats strives toward its biomaterials and sustainable composites vision in an ever-changing market.
3D Printing With Recycled Powders: Reducing Waste and Material Costs
Hannah Mason | Additive Manufacturing
Can you print high-quality parts using recycled thermoplastic powder? JawsTec saves 2 tons of waste per year by investing in SLS printers that reuse scrap to make new parts.
6 Sustainability Trends to Look for at IMTS
Hannah Mason | Modern Machine Shop
What sustainability trends can you find at North America’s largest manufacturing trade event? Find exhibitors and conference presentations focused on additive manufacturing, energy efficient operations, sustainable parts cleaning and more.
Sustainability Analysis Tool Aids Data-Driven Decision-Making
Hannah Mason | Production Machining
Can increasing productivity and reducing carbon emissions go hand-in-hand? For its high-volume machining customers, Sandvik Coromant offers a tool for data collection and comparison to aid sustainability-minded process decisions.
Enabling Sustainable Production Through Measuring Energy Data
Hannah Mason | Additive Manufacturing
Airbus subsidiary CTC’s mobile technology measures machine energy use on new machines and helps optimize for sustainability and efficiency. Valuable for AM applications targeting sustainability.
Algae-Based Coating Enables Modular Carbon Capture Removal System
Hannah Mason | Products Finishing
Reactive Surfaces, an innovator in bio-based coatings, works on development of Carbon Capture Coatings, which harness the natural CO2-capturing capabilities of live algae.
ACMA sustainability event educates on composites LCA, recycling
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
Recent conference in Denver, Colorado, emphasized the tools and knowledge composites manufacturers will need to meet customer and government sustainability goals.
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How Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Measures a Manufacturer’s Carbon Footprint and Environmental Impact
Hannah Mason | Plastics Technology
Life cycle assessments (LCA) are rising in popularity in some industries as a way of evaluating a product’s environmental impact. What are LCAs and what do they mean for Tier suppliers?
Forvia moves toward more sustainable automotive composites manufacturing
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
Automotive technology supplier Forvia shares sustainability goals and recent developments aimed at bio-based and recycled materials and ramping up hydrogen tank production for clean mobility.
Life cycle assessment in the composites industry
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
As companies strive to meet zero-emissions goals, evaluating a product’s carbon footprint is vital. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one tool composites industry OEMs and Tier suppliers are using to move toward sustainability targets.
Demonstrator project targets circularity solutions in carbon fiber composite sports equipment
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
The Carbon Fibre Circular Alliance (CFCA) brought together OEMs and technical partners to reclaim short carbon fibers from end-of-life sports equipment, realign into continuous prepreg tapes and remanufacture into new equipment.