Carbon Fiber Knowledge
The latest from the world of advanced composites and carbon fiber technology.
Scarf-bonded repair is the preferred method for restoring load-carrying carbon fiber structures — aircraft skins, rotor blades, boat hulls and pressure vessels — because it returns the part to near-original strength with a minimal weight penalty and a barely visible footprint. Instead o
Resin transfer molding has become the standard route for medium-to-high-volume carbon fiber parts — automotive structural components, aerospace secondary structures, bicycle frames, and industrial parts — because it combines near-net-shape geometry, Class-A or engineering surfaces on bo
Automated fiber placement has become the workhorse for large carbon fiber structures — wing skins, fuselage barrels, wind turbine spar caps and rocket motor cases — because it deposits narrow tows at speeds and repeatability that hand layup cannot match. A single head places several tow
A racing driver's helmet is the most safety-critical composite product in motorsport, and carbon fiber has become its defining material. The shell must absorb and distribute impact energy, resist penetration, survive high-speed oblique impacts, and do all of this while weighing as littl
Concrete structures carry the world's bridges, buildings, and industrial infrastructure, but a large share of them now operate beyond their original design intent. Traffic volumes have grown, load codes have tightened, and decades of environmental exposure have taken their toll. Where a
Railway vehicles are heavy by design, and the carbody is the largest single contributor to empty vehicle mass. A conventional steel car body accounts for 35-40 percent of the empty weight of a metro or commuter train, with components such as roofs, side walls, floor structures, and end
Toray Carbon Fibers Europe is completing one of the most significant capacity developments on the continent in recent years: the expansion of its Abidos, France, plant from 5,000 to 6,000 tonnes of annual carbon fiber output, backed by a new production line covering T300 standard-modulu
On 28 June 2026, China's largest PAN-based carbon fiber producer, Zhongfu Shenying, started up three new production lines at its Lianyungang base in Jiangsu Province, in a single commissioning event that compressed years of conventional capacity growth into one morning. The three lines
Mexico has become the Americas' most active destination for nearshored manufacturing, and its carbon fiber market is growing on the back of that shift. Aerospace investment has concentrated around Querétaro, where multinational OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers now assemble wing structure