Our monthly webinar series “Innovation Insights” continues Monday, July 21, as IACMI CCO Jason Gibson moderates discussions on recent technology advancements from IACMI members.
We will hear from:
Eric Kerr-Anderson
Winona State University
Associate Professor, Composite Materials Engineering
America’s Cutting Edge and Winona State University’s Composites Technology Bootcamp – The Development and Execution of a New Way to Grow the Composites Workforce
B Jay Larson
Magnum Venus Products (MVP)
General Manager – MVP Motion
Unlocking New Potential with 4-Axis Filament Winding for High-Performance Applications
MVP’s 4-axis filament winding technology is optimized for high-pressure vessels and structural components, offering advanced multi-axis motion for both wet winding and prepreg applications. The system ensures accurate and uniform fiber laydown with superior pattern regularity, while reactive tension control enables the highest translation efficiency for a given resin/fiber system. Customizable spindle configurations allow for flexibility across varying production scales, making it a powerful solution for high-performance composite manufacturing.
Ryan Ginder
University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Research Assistant Professor
A Hotdog for Composites
What if, instead of paying to throw fiberglass waste in a dumpster, you could put it right back into your manufacturing process to make more product? The University of Tennessee Knoxville and TPI Composites are working to make that a reality. To do this, our team takes waste fibers and homogenizes them back into continuous technical yarns. This fiber product equivalent of the hotdog is plug and play for most composites manufacturing processes. Work demonstrating this approach’s technical viability during a recent IACMI Resource Pool project, in which fiberglass waste from production of EV battery separators was reprocessed into technical yarns and then returned to the factory for successful pultrusion of more parts, will be presented.