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During JEC Group's flagship festival in Paris this year I had the honor to speak with Yannick Willemin, out of Switzerland, about their latest approval in the motorbike industry.

Watch till the end to enjoy the trailer prepped by the team.

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Save-the-date: On October 24-25 the DACH Composites Community gathers in Salzburg, Austria! Composites Lounge looks forward meeting you there, too!

Ever wondered how any composite reinforcement can be safely cut?

During my recent visit to JEC Groups Italy forum, I met Sergio Gori, CEO of FKgroup and took the opportunity to speak with him about feeding materials and cutting same in a safely manner.

What do I mean by that? Safe?

Anyone who is in the textile industry knows, textiles tend to fray when cut. Fraying is annoying, because it destroys the processability in later production steps. Take for instance carbon fabrics that require solid edges for an RTM process.

Secondly, some reinforcement fibres are hell of difficult to cut. Take para-aramid for instance. These fabrics are designed to be overly strong and tightly woven, because they display ballistic properties. Often used in bullet-proof vests, but also firefighting and other personal protection equipment (the meta-aramid variant). Aramids are difficult to cut, but Sergio managed a work around.

Finally, health and safety. Cutting fibres releases fibre dust. Fibrous dust can be as small as a few microns and being airborne reach through the upper respiratory the deeper levels of the lung of workers dealing with this dust.

Therefore it is essential to keep dust levels low. In fact there are several national workplace regulations concerning fiber dust, but even though no airborne harmful respiratory fibres are the aim, Sergio believes in a few years from now (2023) cutting textiles manually will be banned anyway.

Therefore watch our interview till the end. It is explained what is necessary to be able to cut fibreglass, carbon, aramids, hybrids, core, prepreg and multiple layers safely through machines.

In order to keep your workplace clean and protect your factory workers from airborne fibres, do this:

- Check regularly airborne fibre concentration

- Provide dust masks and PPE to workers

- Install and maintain air-suction to the floor (not the ceiling!)

- Never use airpressure for cleaning equipment (releases fibre dust)

- Educate workers to protect themselves and provide black/white change rooms

- Invest in automatic cutting and handling in closed cabins with slight vacuum

Thank you for the nice chat in Bologna, Sergio and Stefano Ratti

PS: Composites Lounge, JEC FORUM DACH is around the corner. Save-the-date: It will be in Salzburg from 25-26 October 2023. Let me know, if you have something that contributes to health&safety, sustainability and innovation.

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ITMA 2023: full interview with Jochen Schmidt, CEO of Karl Mayer Technische Textilien GmbH a KARL MAYER Group member.

Composites Lounge was on the #composites360ontour in Italy back in June 2023. A stop at ITMA 2023 revealed there is a new exhibitor chapter called composites at ITMA 2023 and we wanted to learn more about it.

In the video Ilkay Özkisaoglu interviews Jochen Schmidt and they are talking about

1. the importance of ITMA to the textile and related machinery industry

2. how Karl Mayer manages innovation

3. the overarching theme of sustainability in the manufacture of textiles

4. a deeper dive into geo-grid textiles used in the highway construction.

Note ITMA is only every 4th year. The next edition will be held in Hannover, Germany conducted by Deutsche Messe AG.

Have you been at ITMA?

#ITMA2023 #Textile #innovation #Milano #Hannover

Crashing composites has always been a concern in the industry, but is largely solved. Yet, some application engineers are still reluctant to apply composite structures due to ongoing concerns. A typical example are car rims.

On 28 July 2023 Ilkay Özkisaoglu invited Tim Hall, Commercial Director of Engenuity to explain our composites community here on LinkedIn, how their approach to crashing differs from others in order to give you more trust into these fibrereinforced polymers (frp).

We will also talk about composites testing in general and more specifically why Engenuity has specialised in the short fibre inspection that are used in classic SMC (Sheet moulding compound) processes.

Engenuity is part of the HRC Group and based in Burgess Hill (UK).

This livestream is for any technician, researcher & developer in the automotive, aerospace, railway and renewable energy market sectors to name a few. Of course, business developers, sales executives and anyone interested in material testing and simulation is warmly welcome, too, to join our live discussion.

We encourage you to ask all your burning questions live and we are of course interested in your opinion in real-time. Write them in the chat down below.

Save-the-Date: Ilkay will be visiting both the International Composites Summit (Milton Keynes, UK) on 7 September 2023 and have a chat with the Engenuity engineers on both their booth plus in Burgess Hill on Sept. 8th.

Having witnessed and reported now multiple times on JEC Group's Start-Up Booster challenge all contestants enjoy truly great support.

Not only are the finalist getting a free display, everyone in the industry can apply to it and has a fair chance to win. In case of Italy the national Assocompositi and other partners have selected various applications and put them forward in front of a very knowledgable jury.

The winner of this year's forum in Italy is RECARBON out of Busto Arsizio (VA), Italy.

Watch now the full story about the challenge from Benjamin Debusschère, Head of Events at JEC and of course my interview with the CEO and Co-Founder of RECARBON Luca Grati.

While a recent start-up was awarded on glass recycling (Guillaume Perben) now it is the turn on carbon recycling.

See the samples provided by Luca processed in organosheets and other plate items.

Be sure to apply again for JEC Forum DACH in Salzburg in co-operation with AVK, Austria on 24 and 25 October 2023 and of course JEC World 2024 from 5 to 7 March in Villepente (Paris). I keep my fingers crossed for you to be in the final round.

I need to tell you the selection is rigorous, but enjoyable and there is much visibility to gain for newcomers or innovative solution providers like you.

Make sure to click and follow our official hashy #composites360ontour, join our Composites Lounge group and follow both the JEC Group's and our Composites Lounge page here on LinkedIn for the latest news in the international composites world.

Ob im Bauwesen, der Automobilindustrie oder sogar im Kunsthandwerk - Polyurea hat zahlreiche Anwendungen und Vorteile zu bieten. In diesem LinkedIn Video demonstriert Ihnen Thomas Bongard, Geschäftsführer der Pultex GmbH die Applikation als Gelcoat.

Wir beschäftigen uns eingehend mit diesem faszinierenden Material. Insbesondere spreche ich im Interview über seine Eigenschaften und nehme die Verwendungsmöglichkeiten sowie Vor- und Nachteile genauer unter die Lupe.

Das Team von Pultex mit Sitz in der Eifel (D) wird uns künftig auch mit den neuesten Entwicklungen und Trends in der Welt der Polyurea auf dem aktuellen Stand hier in LinkedIn halten und Ihnen wertvolle Tipps geben, wie Sie dieses Material am besten nutzen können.

Pultex versteht sich primär als Prozessoptimierer in Composites.

Um Betriebsprozesse zu optimieren sind notwendig:

1. Der Einsatz der besten Dosiersysteme (schauen Sie im Video, wie rasant sich das Material applizieren lässt)

2. Der Einsatz von Cobots zur Teilefertigung

3. Moderne Matrixen, die sich nach den unterschiedlichsten Einsatzzwecken richten.

Das ist der Beginn einer Reise mit der Composites Lounge in Sachen Prozessoptimierungen in Composites.

Folgen Sie daher #composites360ontour für weitere Updates, die wir Ihnen von den besten Herstellern und Dienstleistern höchst unabhängig präsentieren️

Mein Dank an dieser Stelle auch an Guido Bongard, der sich im Tyvek dieser Aufgabe stellte

The European Composites Industry Association; EuCIA is the second level association of the european associations dealing with composites.

Learn in this video that was taken at JEC Group's JEC Forum Italy in Bologna on 6 June 2023 what role the EuCIA plays.

From first hand, Mr RAPHAEL PLEYNET, the Managing Director.

We had already the EuCIA chairman in part one in the interview. Link in the comments for you.

#composites360ontour

Let me sweeten your Formula 1 weekend in Silverstone with this video.

During the recent JEC Group's Forum in Bologna Italy the motorsport industry was all over the place. We had even a formula 1 celebrity there and of course we took the opportunity to speak to Jarno Trulli personally.

Why I was totally amazed about Jarno is that as a race car driver he is not only concerned with the powertrain, but the overall make of the car. In the interview he reveals his expertise in construction and design of motorsport vehicles.

Learn from him first hand why composites are essential and why they must be from carbon than anything else.

With his R&D partner Giustiniano Andreassi of Gruppo Esea we move to tow preprag and hydrogen level 5 tanks (no liner) and have a short sustainability excursion by Alessandra Passaro of CETMA out of Brindisi.

She underlines the importance of sizing when reinforcing prepregs with recycled carbonfibres, as they may not perform in the compression mould as intended.

As you can take from this Composites Lounge video taken during #composites360ontour composites are versatile and high performing, provided the design is well thought through.

Proud to share this episode with you. There is plenty more to come. So stay tuned!

#LightweightTechnology #motorsport #innovation #Italy

During the recent JEC Forum Italy we had the chance to speak to the president of Assocompositi, the italian association for the composites industry.

President Roberto Frassine answer the questions of Ilkay Özkisaoglu regarding technology, innovation and sustainability of composites from the Italian angle.

This video is particularly suitable for anyone who has an interest in composites in lightweight and other technologies. We cover the motorsport and construction industry in some depth.

We will be featuring many more exhibitors that have attended Bologna and the very first edition of JEC Group' s forum in Italy.

Follow Composites Lounge and join our online community here in LinkedIn to stay up-to-date with our format #composites360ontour where we thrive to bring you the brightest thought leaders and their smart solutions onto your mobile or desktop screen.

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During JEC 2023 we met on the Composites United Booth the Projekt Director of LightCon, a new Confex format in the lightweighting industry.

Learn more about the LightCon in todays podcast episode from first hand.

In this VUCA times material scarcity play a big role, hence the overarching theme at this year's confex. Hear also about why Poland has been selected as the partner country and who will speak under the patronage of the Ministry of Economics and Climate action of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Composites Lounge will be there and report while being with #composites360ontour

Allora, gentilissima community di LinkedIn, cosa ne pensate di questa bella bottiglia di champagne in Carbon Composite, del borsone e delle scarpe di cuoio e fibra di carbonio?

Penso che siano davvero chic e mi piace l'idea di portare un prodotto tecnico come il Carbon Composite nell'industria della moda e del lifestyle.

Enrico, grazie mille per gli approfondimenti che hai fornito alla nostra Community.

Siamo all'edizione JEC Group del duemilaventitré, terzo giorno.

Oggi abbiamo fatto davvero un cambio di registro, per mostrarvi l'ampia varietà di applicazioni dei materiali compositi.

Susanne E. Eggeling ha parlato con Enrico in italiano, perché presto, ossia dal sei al sette di giugno, ci sarà un JEC Forum a Bologna in Italia, al quale parteciperò.

E se siete interessati ai prodotti di lifestyle e ai materiali compositi di carbonio e di vetro nonché a molte altre soluzioni, vi invito calorosamente a partecipare!

Ci divertiremo, a Bologna. Grazie mille per la vostra attenzione e a più tardi con un altro ospite.

Time to wrap up JEC World 2023 before we enter JEC Forum Italy in Bologna and JEC Forum DACH in Salzburg, Austria .

In the podcast episode: the CEO of the JEC Group Mr Eric Pierrejean.

Listen to this episode to learn about the behind-the-scenes of JEC World, the major event in the composites industry.

Both Eric and myself express our excitement and gratitude of how many posts there were on LinkedIn. This is important, because our sector raised huge awareness that there are solutions for a greener world.

Also thank you Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz for being part of our sustainability agenda in Paris .

If you have fascinating composite innovations, technologies and or solutions that contribute to sustainability, why don't we feature them together on LinkedIn during the upcoming JEC Forums or JEC World 2024, which is only nine months away.

AZL tested hydrogen tanks and displayed the results on their JEC booth.

Listen to our podcast episode with Dr. Kai Fischer about the significance of these tanks and watch how they look after being burst. Hydrogen tanks made from carbon-fibre undoubtedly offer the highest safety. That's why rigorous and relevant tests are constantly made.

During JEC 2023 also testimonials have been caught. Listen to a project partner of AZL. Ahmad Al-Sheyyab from REHAU explains the joint partner project from the perspective of a partner.

Stay tuned for more coverage on the recently held JEC World 2023.