The success of any composite part depends in large part on the tools used in its fabrication. With the composites industry currently healthy and revenues up, tooling R&D is again on the rise: A wealth ...

Some pundits predict that 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), will change our world forever. While that may yet be, one thing is clear: The growth of 3D printing over the past two decades has ...

Using 3D printing technologies for composite tooling is no longer new, though uptake is still limited and there is enormous potential for growth across the composite industry. The last decade has seen ...

Often, we face tedious tasks with no way around them. Sometimes, you just have to grit your teeth and push through. But small tweaks can make the onerous task a bit easier to handle. [James Bowman] ...

Additive manufacturing has fundamentally changed the procedure for creating complex, hollow composite parts. While basic shapes with constant cross sections are easily manufactured using traditional ...

Broens Aerospace was recently awarded a Purchase Order by GE to design and build tooling mandrels required to manufacture the engine bypass duct for the F136 engine program. to design and build three ...