Composites Australia

CST Composites – ‘Innovate to grow: The CST story’ Tuesday 4th June CST Composites has transformed itself from a small specialist company providing “yachties” with masts and spars to one of the world’s leading innovators in filament winding and associated technologies. In a short time, CST has maintained a continuous focus on innovating its manufacturing processes, [...]

Rod Thomson – Practical Composites Design & Analysis Dr Rodney Thomson to present a 1 day workshop on Practical Composites Design & Analysis. This event will coincide with National Manufacturing week and will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Course Objectives At completion of this course participants will be able to: Select the proper [...]

Composites Australia and CRC – ACS Conference 2014 has been scheduled for 8th and 9th April 2014 with workshops on the 7th to be held in Newcastle in New South Wales.  The event will bring two days of presentations from local and international speakers with opportunity to network and exchange information among delegates. The conference will provide the perfect platform for [...]

Under the leadership of Mr John Vickers, an engineering team at the Materials and Processes Laboratory, NASA, has devised an enormous ten metre wide moulded cryotank from ultra light weight, strong and non-corrosive ‘composite’ materials as a revolutionary new hydrogen fuel tank with the potential to be used for NASA’s heavy-lift launch vehicles. Designed to [...]

‘Opportunities in Mineral Processing’ will be held 16 & 18 April, 2013 – Brisbane & Gladstone. Seminars will examine new and emerging commercial opportunities for filtration and separation. Each full day seminars event will bring together Australia’s mineral processors and multinational end-users from throughout Australia, filtration and separation, composites, and fibre and textiles leaders, including the [...]

*VIEW DRAFT STANDARD The Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads have released a second draft of the Technical Standard for the Design of Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composite Girders, a copy if which can be found at this link. Anyone wishing to comment please email me at:  Kerryn@compositesaustralia.com.au  

To address the skills and labour shortages that have dogged the composites industry for many years, CA along with Manufacturing Skills Australia developed a trade qualification for the composites industry. Skills Victoria recently announced that the qualification was deemed a fully subsidised ($12.50 per hour) apprenticeship. Kangan Institute is poised to deliver the qualification, commencing [...]

Visit to Melbourne by Dr James Zheng, Chief Scientist for Project Manager – Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment, Program Executive Office – United States Army. Renowned for being at the forefront in the development of combat body armour, Zheng will discuss “U.S. Army Protective Materials for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Soldiers.” His presentation will review new [...]

The 7th SAMPE China conference and exhibition – Improving Advanced Composite Materials Applications – will be held from 15th to 17th of October at the China World Exhibition Hall in Beijing. Papers on industrial applications for composites, low-cost technology, new materials and structure designing, automation, out-of-autoclave, mass production, tool using and sustainable development are all [...]

Gurit, the Isle of Wight-based composite specialist, has helped to produce what is claimed to be the world’s first composite rotary platform for the milking industry. Waikato Milking Systems in New Zealand has used a composite solution to create a platform which is claimed to have a 25% longer lifespan than a concrete rotary platform. [...]