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Wingfoil board for beginners and light-wind conditions developed via bionic design approaches Wingfoiling beginners in particular find it difficult to get along with this new

20. April 2026

Hybrid, lightweight, sustainable, and exceptionally safe headrest for car child seat

If all child seat headrests were produced using lightweight technologies, a substantial reduction in carbon emissions could be achieved across the automotive and transport sectors.

20. April 2026

Sports, go! – Innovation at the limit

Why high-performance composites are redefining the sports market In the world of sport, it is all about tenths of a second, millimeters, and the perfect

9. April 2026

New Joining Technologies for Thermoplastic Sandwich Components

New joining technologies must be developed to make thermoplastic sandwich components economically joinable and repairable in small to medium-sized production runs. The Fraunhofer Institute for

9. April 2026

New standards in the field of staple fibers for high-performance composite semi-finished products

Within several projects the Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut (STFI) develops textile technologies for high-performance fibers of finite length to provide high-performance semi-finished products made from secondary materials

7. April 2026

Novel EMC shielding properties with functionalised fiber composites

The continuous increase in interference frequencies leads to new challenges for material systems used to guarantee effective EMC protection. The project partners were able to

1. April 2026

Lightweight sharp turns

EcoRudder R&D project tests thermoplastic sandwich structures for aircraft construction Thermoplastic honeycomb core sandwich structures can be processed efficiently and are also recyclable. These advantages

1. April 2026

Sallea Extends Salt-Based Templating Technology to Advanced Composite Manufacturing

Sallea, an ETH Zurich spin-off specializing in templating technologies for biomanufacturing, is expanding the application of its proprietary salt-based structuring platform into the field of

24. March 2026

Lightweight battery carrier

Significantly lighter commercial vehicles through inverse hybrid laminates The use of inverse hybrid laminates has successfully replaced the conventional steel side walls of battery carriers

24. March 2026