Ultrasonic. Hot plate. Spin. Vibration. Laser. All of these welding methods can join thermoplastic components. Yet when the joint has to be structural, hermetic, free of distortion, very long, or made ...

Composite metal foams (CMFs) are intriguing materials, offering several big advantages over traditional solid metal. And while the welding of CMFs usually poses some challenges, it has now been been ...

Components for the aerospace or transportation industry are typical applications for fibre-reinforced thermoplastic polymer composites. These components often require the production of large, complex ...

A newly filed patent (Publication Number: US20230398748A1) describes a system and method for fusing thermoplastic composite components together using induction welding. The system includes a composite ...

The SIDEFFECT project aims to develop and evaluate dynamic induction welding for thermoplastic fuselage in a low cost and high speed context. The final demonstrator integrates the geometric ...

BRYAN, Ohio, Feb. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TRUFAST®, a leading innovator in technical building envelope solutions, announces the launch of the TRUFAST® TruBond™ Induction Weld (IW) system. The TruBond ...

This blog gives an update to the Clean Sky 2 Multifunctional Fuselage Demonstrator (MFFD), which has changed somewhat from my last writing in 2018. One of three large fuselage demonstrators to be ...

Miron Construction used Miller Electric's ProHeat 35 to preheat structural welds at the Lambeau Field Expansion for the Green Bay Packers. Miron used the ProHeat 35 throughout the project - instead of ...

Thermoplastic films have been used in flexible medical product applications since the 1960s, when plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) blood storage bags replaced glass bottles.1 In the 1970s, PVC ...