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For me, in this industry, the future is automation.  It isn't the first and won't be the last time I write a blog on it.  Composites are expensive to build.  The biggest reason they are expensive is labor.  Even offshore composite parts (don't get me started on...

SAMPE 2013 is over and it’s time for me to leave the sunny summer coast.  Monday I left Toronto sunny and 80⁰F. I get to Los Angeles to rain and 65⁰F. Show’s over, it’s Thursday night and guess what? Raining and 65⁰F. But enough complaining. Sitting on a patio...

For me, one of the more interesting parts of our industry has been the race to fully integrate composites into the automotive industry.  Not so much the flashy clear finished carbon fiber parts showing up on performance cars, but run-of-the-mill production vehicles....

Civil infrastructure: it’s constantly falling apart. Buildings, bridges, and roads, all get built just in time to start a continuous process of deterioration. I complain about it as much as anybody else, but it’s the reason construction on the highways just never...

We're excited to be bringing in a new eco-friendly fabric.  Made in the UK, Composites Evolution brings innovative ideas to traditional fabric technology. Biotex Flax is a range of high-performance reinforcement yarns and fabrics based on natural flax fibre, and...

We love the composites industry because it gives us contact with every conceivable application. A few years ago, we headed to downtown Toronto on a foggy spring morning. Parking is easy that early, but finding an obscure service entrance to the CN Tower was way more...