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29th International Dresden Lightweight Engineering Symposium

For nearly three decades, the International Dresden Lightweight Construction Symposium has served as a central platform for interdisciplinary dialogue between academia, industry, and government. In

16. 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