SAMPE Journal - May/June 2017 - 14

Industry News
Dr. Clem Hiel, President and CEO of Composite Support & Solutions,
Inc., and Los Angeles SAMPE Chapter Director, received a 2016 SBIR
"Tibbetts Award". The award
was presented to him by the
Belgium Consul General, Henri
Vantieghem at the Kingdom of
Belgium Consulste on February
9 th . The "Tibbetts Award" is
awarded in honor of Ronald
Tibbetts, the founder of the US
SBIR program, to those making
significant contributions to the
program. Dr. Hiel's contribution
was an innovative composites
"snap-lock" joint tower designed
and installed at Hanscom AFB.

NEW pre-cut pieces of Flashbreaker® 1 are available from Airtech
Advanced Materials Group. It
greatly reduces time, labour, and
waste. Convenient pull tabs for ease
of removal are made from the same
Flashbreaker® tape so there are no
qualification issues. Supplied on
new polyethylene plastic cores with
the Airtech logo.
www.airtechonline.com

French Oil Mill Machinery Company, a custom hydraulic press and process equipment manufacturer, expanded their
machining capability with the recent investment in three new CNC machine
tools. The company upgraded their Piqua, Ohio, manufacturing facility
with a bridge milling machine, a vertical turning lathe and a horizontal
machining center. The aggressive investment replaced aging manual
machines, advancing the capabilities and the sustainability of the company.
The new five face CNC bridge milling center features a high speed spindle
and a 90-degree, two speed geared head with programmable indexing
increments. The mill is capable of machining parts up to 44,000 pounds.
French also added a new live tool CNC vertical turning lathe. The lathe
features a programmable fourth axis enabling French to mill and drill on
the machine and has a table load capacity of 11,000 pounds.
The third machine, a new CNC horizontal machining center, features a
15,000 RPM high speed machining controller, dual pallets and a full fourth axis 360-degree programmable rotary table.
French also invested in new programming software and tooling for the three new machines.
www.frenchoil.com
Solvay is proud to have been awarded FACC Operations GmbH's Excellent
Supplier Gold Award 2016, in recognition for the company's outstanding
service and exceptional performance in achieving FACC's challenging
procurement, delivery and quality requirements.
The truly competitive partnership between Solvay and FACC, through
ongoing support and co-operation, has proven invaluable in helping FACC
achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.
FACC uses a range of Solvay's composite materials, primarily to manufacture
critical secondary structures for the aerospace OEMs.

www.solvay.us
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Technical Fibre Products (TFP) is
now a member of Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing
Innovation.
IACMI is a partnership of industry,
universities, national laboratories,
and federal, state & local governments managed by the Collaborative
Composite Solutions Corporation
(CCS). These member institutions
are working together to benefit the
nation's energy & economic security by sharing existing resources &
co-investing to accelerate development & commercial deployment of
advanced composites.
TFP has over 30 years' experience in
designing & manufacturing technical
nonwoven materials for advanced
composites & membership of IACMI
highlights the company's continued
commitment to growing business in
this area.
www.tfpglobal.com
SAMPE Journal, Volume 53, No. 3, May/June 2017

http://www.airtechonline.com http://www.frenchoil.com http://www.solvay.us http://www.tfpglobal.com

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