contents n°92 Edito ......................................3 Companies & Business In brief 8 Polystrand, Sanluis Rassini and PPG create advanced automotive composite project 9 Biocomposites " Point of view: oil & gas .......................................4 At Element, we have a key focus on develoing technology for the evaluation of advanced materials " ChArles noAll, Ceo, rod MArtin, exeCutive viCe President, oil And GAs FibreCITY: building a renewable future with bio composites 11 10 Spin-off RWTH promotes entrepreneurship: Apodius is born! Applications Element 16 Agenda of Events ............... 14 Sustainability Environment-friendly materials for composite production Index .................................. 65 20 Defense A unique hand-held ballistic shield In the world ........................ 66 - Special ops ready - Tomorrow's architecture - A tripod for travelers 22 Automotive Polyurethane in the BMW i3 and reactive polyamide materials development 16 SPECIAL JEC AMERICAS - FALL EDITION 32 37 JEC Americas Innovation Awards Program 42 40 Gain insight into the JEC 2014 I.C.S. Americas Program Maintenance Certified composite repair system for pipelines 6 jec composites magazine / No92 October - November 2014 43 Carbon fabrics Successful first flight test for the VX-1 KittyHawk C-PlyTM aircraft model 44 Design Composite aerostructure development in high-performance enterprises