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Show your innovative potential at the central lightweight design platform – Book your booth at LightCon 2023 now at the Early Bird rate!

In times of energy and resource scarcity, lightweight design is the solution – Show your innovative potential at LightCon 2023! A new year starts, but

24. January 2023

Please take part in the Composites Market Survey 2022/2!

In which direction will the composites and/or fiber composite industry develop? This central question arises when dealing with the topic of innovative materials. The member organizations

23. January 2023

Chance for SMEs – AMULET is launching the 2nd Open Call

We would like to invite you to learn about the Second Open Call that the project Advanced Materials & Manufacturing United for LightWeight (AMULET) is

13. January 2023

CU Switzerland congratulates Bridge and CFRP pioneer Urs Meier on his birthday

Urs Meier is the former director of Empa’s Dübendorf site. Through his research and developments, he has contributed significantly to the realisation of carbon fibre

10. January 2023

Eureka: Call for lightweighting projects

This project call is for R&D lightweight technology projects. Driven by mobility-linked challenges, lightweight technology is the path to fundamental resource savings. In an increasingly

9. January 2023

Call for papers for the first issue of CU reports 2023

Packed with information and inspiration on the whole variety of modern lightweight design is the CU reports, your member magazine of Composites United. Issue 01/23

7. January 2023

CompPair receives a FIT Tech Growth loan

Our member CompPair receives a CHF 500,000 growth loan from the Bern Foundation for Technological Innovation. It will help the start-up bring its self-repairing and

24. December 2022

We wish you Merry Christmas

Another challenging and eventful year is now behind us. With the commitment of everyone, in front of and behind the scenes, we have mastered all

19. December 2022

Just remember – Carbon fibers for data storage in the laminate

For the reinforcement of fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon fibers currently have density related the highest mechanical property potential. The electrical conductivity of carbon fibers is also

19. December 2022

Aviation meets architecture – Tailored Fibre Placement makes for tailored bio composite structures for architecture

Interdisciplinary research was carried out in order to transfer knowledge on fibre placement from aircraft construction to architecture for lightweight structural construction. IFB, ITKE and

19. December 2022