A leading space company turned to Electroimpact to build large composite structures for a reusable carbon fiber rocket. In this project, REDEX precision gear racks and slew bearings power the motion ...

The 90-tonne Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) machine has been custom-designed and built for Rocket Lab and is expected to save around 150,000 manufacturing hours in the Neutron rocket’s production ...

California-based Rocket Lab USA Inc. Friday announced it has begun installation of the largest automated fiber placement (AFP) machine of its kind into the company’s Neutron rocket production line in ...

At Rocket Lab’s manufacturing complex in Maryland, a massive robot is hard at work stacking layers of a carbon composite rocket at a rate that will save the company thousands of hours in production.

Fives, a global leader in industrial engineering solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its innovative In-Process Composite Inspection technology, “COAST: Composite Optical Automated Surface ...

Rocket Lab, a leader in low-cost launch services and space systems, has embarked on a new chapter in rocket manufacturing with the installation of the largest automated fiber placement (AFP) machine ...

CW executive editor Ginger Gardiner discusses some of this year’s notable exhibits and new developments in composites.

Mikrosam (Prilep, Macedonia) has announced the delivery of its latest single-tape placement head to the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg (BTU) in Germany, which is an upgrade ...