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A C Marine & Composites unveils new website
Reinforced Plastics Volume 61, Number 3 May/June 2017
BUSINESS
A C Marine & Composites unveils new website A C Marine & Composites has launched a new website. ‘Our business has evolved rapidly since we began in 2010, and the past year in particular has been extremely exciting for us,’ said director Alex Newton. ‘We’ve recently moved into a new state-of-the-art
22,000 ft2 workshop, won a major contract to supply tidal turbine blades and invested heavily in our equipment and people.’ He said that the new website will be updated regularly with company news and technical insights. Details of case studies are also available.
The company has also recently expanded its network in the composites industry through membership of the National Composites Centre (NCC), Composites UK and British Marine. AC Marine & Composites; www.acmarineandcomposites.com
Glass fiber specialist is¸ecam, based in Turkey, has approved a major investment of 400 million TL (around s100 million) to build a new glass fiber plant in that country. The new plant, which will have an annual production capacity of 70,000 metric tonnes, is expected to become operational in the second half of 2018. The is¸ecam Glass fiber business, originally Cam Elyaf Sanayii A, is now part of the chemicals division of the is¸ecam Group, and remains the sole manufacturer of glass fibers in Turkey. The planned new plant will be located in Balikesir, the north-western part of Turkey, close to the Aegean region industrial cluster where around 80% of wind energy manufacturers in Turkey are now located. The new plant will produce the company’s current range of E-glass fiber reinforcement products supplied as strands, mats and bobbins for producing a variety of glass fiber filled engineering thermoplastics, phenolic brake pads, gypsum reinforcement, and GRP composite end applications typically using unsaturated polyester, vinyl ester,
processes such as spray-up, continuous lamination, and sheet moulding compound (SMC) applications and single end continuous rovings for filament winding, pultrusion and weaving.
Leading position
epoxy and polyurethane resins. The range of is¸ecam glass fiber products the new plant will produce includes chopped strands in standard and custom lengths, emulsion and powder bonded chopped strand mats (CSM) for both open moulding and continuous production of GRP panels, multi-end continuous strand rovings for GRP production
Key manufacturing sectors supplied by is¸ecam glass fiber include wind energy, automotive, land transportation, marine, industrial, building and construction. To meet the specification requirements of key industry sectors, is¸ecam glass fiber products have various DNV-GL, Lloyds Register and FDA compliance certifications. ’is¸ecam has a leading position in starting and developing the Turkish composite industry, which has now reached a volume of s1.2 billion,’ said Professor Ahmet Kırman, vice chairman and CEO of is¸ecam Group. ‘It has recently gained further importance for the wind power, electronics, aviation, space and defense industries in addition to the leading industries of our country.’ is¸ecam Group; www.sisecam.com
address our contribution to climate change,’ it said. From the 1st September 2015 to 31st August 2016 its carbon footprint was measured as 361 tons of CO2e. ‘The most significant area of our carbon footprint is
attributed to Electricity and we believe that by doing installing LEDs we will continue to make great progress improving our sustainability,’ Tufcot said in a press release. Tufcot; www.tufcot.com
Prof Dr Ahmet Kırman – vice chairman and CEO of is¸ecam Group.
Tufcot certifies carbon reduction UK composite manufacturer Tufcot reports that it has become a Carbon Smart Blue certified business. The company aims to decrease its carbon footprint ‘to take a proactive stance and
Composite tooling market to reach more than US$550 million The composite tooling market is projected to reach US$551.8 million by 2021, at a CAGR of 7.35% between 2016 and 2021, according to a report published by Research and Markets. The major drivers stimulating the growth of the composite tooling market are the increasing demand for lightweight
and high performance tooling materials in the aerospace and defense and automotive industries, the report suggests. The usage of composite in tooling for the aerospace and defense industry is increasing due to the dimensional stability and precision tooling offered by the tools, following a requirement for high quality
standards in structural parts in the aerospace industry. North America is expected to be the fastest-growing market for composite tooling in the between 2016 and 2021. Research and Markets; www.researchandmarkets.com
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New glass fiber plant in Turkey
BUSINESS
A C Marine & Composites unveils new website A C Marine & Composites has launched a new website. ‘Our business has evolved rapidly since we began in 2010, and the past year in particular has been extremely exciting for us,’ said director Alex Newton. ‘We’ve recently moved into a new state-of-the-art
22,000 ft2 workshop, won a major contract to supply tidal turbine blades and invested heavily in our equipment and people.’ He said that the new website will be updated regularly with company news and technical insights. Details of case studies are also available.
The company has also recently expanded its network in the composites industry through membership of the National Composites Centre (NCC), Composites UK and British Marine. AC Marine & Composites; www.acmarineandcomposites.com
Glass fiber specialist is¸ecam, based in Turkey, has approved a major investment of 400 million TL (around s100 million) to build a new glass fiber plant in that country. The new plant, which will have an annual production capacity of 70,000 metric tonnes, is expected to become operational in the second half of 2018. The is¸ecam Glass fiber business, originally Cam Elyaf Sanayii A, is now part of the chemicals division of the is¸ecam Group, and remains the sole manufacturer of glass fibers in Turkey. The planned new plant will be located in Balikesir, the north-western part of Turkey, close to the Aegean region industrial cluster where around 80% of wind energy manufacturers in Turkey are now located. The new plant will produce the company’s current range of E-glass fiber reinforcement products supplied as strands, mats and bobbins for producing a variety of glass fiber filled engineering thermoplastics, phenolic brake pads, gypsum reinforcement, and GRP composite end applications typically using unsaturated polyester, vinyl ester,
processes such as spray-up, continuous lamination, and sheet moulding compound (SMC) applications and single end continuous rovings for filament winding, pultrusion and weaving.
Leading position
epoxy and polyurethane resins. The range of is¸ecam glass fiber products the new plant will produce includes chopped strands in standard and custom lengths, emulsion and powder bonded chopped strand mats (CSM) for both open moulding and continuous production of GRP panels, multi-end continuous strand rovings for GRP production
Key manufacturing sectors supplied by is¸ecam glass fiber include wind energy, automotive, land transportation, marine, industrial, building and construction. To meet the specification requirements of key industry sectors, is¸ecam glass fiber products have various DNV-GL, Lloyds Register and FDA compliance certifications. ’is¸ecam has a leading position in starting and developing the Turkish composite industry, which has now reached a volume of s1.2 billion,’ said Professor Ahmet Kırman, vice chairman and CEO of is¸ecam Group. ‘It has recently gained further importance for the wind power, electronics, aviation, space and defense industries in addition to the leading industries of our country.’ is¸ecam Group; www.sisecam.com
address our contribution to climate change,’ it said. From the 1st September 2015 to 31st August 2016 its carbon footprint was measured as 361 tons of CO2e. ‘The most significant area of our carbon footprint is
attributed to Electricity and we believe that by doing installing LEDs we will continue to make great progress improving our sustainability,’ Tufcot said in a press release. Tufcot; www.tufcot.com
Prof Dr Ahmet Kırman – vice chairman and CEO of is¸ecam Group.
Tufcot certifies carbon reduction UK composite manufacturer Tufcot reports that it has become a Carbon Smart Blue certified business. The company aims to decrease its carbon footprint ‘to take a proactive stance and
Composite tooling market to reach more than US$550 million The composite tooling market is projected to reach US$551.8 million by 2021, at a CAGR of 7.35% between 2016 and 2021, according to a report published by Research and Markets. The major drivers stimulating the growth of the composite tooling market are the increasing demand for lightweight
and high performance tooling materials in the aerospace and defense and automotive industries, the report suggests. The usage of composite in tooling for the aerospace and defense industry is increasing due to the dimensional stability and precision tooling offered by the tools, following a requirement for high quality
standards in structural parts in the aerospace industry. North America is expected to be the fastest-growing market for composite tooling in the between 2016 and 2021. Research and Markets; www.researchandmarkets.com
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New glass fiber plant in Turkey