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Partnership

CCP Composites involved in a project led by Total and Peugeot
After its commitment in the Total concept car exhibited at JEC Europe 2013,
CCP Composites is now involved in
a project led by Total and Peugeot: the
design of a technological demonstrator,
the 208 Hybrid FE.The aim is to create a
vehicle combining real driving pleasure
and low CO2 emissions.
CCP is contributing in front body parts
made by infusing carbon fibers with vinyl
ester resin, as weight saving is a major factor for the success of the project, but also
in some interior parts. The demonstrator
will be achieved and revealed in September, during the International Motor Show
of Frankfurt (Germany).
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SGL Group and Samsung establish
joint venture for Carbon Composite
Materials
The joint venture partners, Samsung
Petrochemical and SGL Group, will each
hold a 50% share. The primary objective of the cooperation is to develop new
industrial and electronic applications with
carbon composite materials for Samsung
and the Korean market. The joint venture

engines to more than 530 operators around
the globe.
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GE Aviation to build a new
composite facility in U.K. to
support A350XWB production
The company has begun the development of a 9,000-square-meter composites
production facility at its Hamble, U.K.
site as part of a five-year, $50 million-plus
investment at the site to support the company’s manufacture of wing components
for the Airbus A350 XWB jetliner family.

Opening

Thyssen Krupp’s InCar plus project
InCar is now InCar plus. Under the motto
“Solutions for automotive efficiency”,
ThyssenKrupp’s research and development project for innovations in automotive engineering is being expanded.
More than 30 projects involving over 40
individual solutions are being launched
to develop products for the powertrain,
chassis & steering and body areas, with a
particular focus on eco-friendly solutions
around technology trends such as energy
efficiency, electric vehicles and lightweight construction.
Whether it’s weight, cost-efficiency, sustainability or functionality: every InCar
plus innovation will be demonstrably
superior to the current state of the art in at
least one of these points. The full results of
InCar plus will be available in September
2014.

will operate under the name “Samsung
SGL Carbon Composite Materials”.
The cooperation is expected to provide
a stable long-term supply of carbon fiber
materials for Samsung and promote its
use in various Samsung products and
applications such as consumer electronics,
medical devices and engineering applications. Carbon fiber materials from SGL
Group will be preferred by the Joint Venture. In the mid-term, the joint venture
will aim for business expansion over the
rest of Asia.
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Safran and Hexcel sign a strategic
agreement for all Leap-1 engines
Hexcel and Safran have signed a long
term contract for the supply of composite
materials for LEAP-1 engine programs.

The contract covers Hexcel’s HexTow IM7
carbon fiber that will be used to manufacture all LEAP-1 engine fan blades and
containment cases, including the LEAP1A selected for the Airbus A320 NEO,
Boeing 737MAX and COMAC 919)
The LEAP engine family is a product
of CFM International, a 50/50 joint
company between Snecma (Safran) and
General Electric. CFM is the world’s largest commercial aircraft engine supplier,
and the company has delivered 25,000

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Karine Thoral-Pierre, of CEDREM, and
Jérôme Raynal, of PPE, receive the 40th
Ingénieur Général Chanson award
On June 5th at the prestigious Ecole
Militaire de Paris, Karine Thoral-Pierre
(CEDREM) and Jérôme Raynal (PPE)
received the 40th Ingénieur Général
Chanson award for their work on “highefficiency energy-absorbing 3D composite
sandwich panels”. The award was presented
by Christian Mons, President of the
GICAT (the French Land Defence
Manufacturers Association).
Their work provides an original solution
for protecting vehicles, as well as buildings,
against blasts and impacts from improvised
explosive devices (IED), with a weight saving of 15 to 20% compared with the state
of the art.
The Ingénieur Général Chanson award
is given each year for advances the field
of land armament, which have a certain
amount of innovation but are also sufficiently concrete to likely result in practical
applications. Winners are engineers working for the French Defence Procurement
Agency (DGA), military officers, engineers
from the military-industrial sector or people working in research laboratories.
The French General Engineer Paul Chanson, a graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and a Doctor of Science, is one of
the fathers of the French nuclear weapons
programme.

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