A recent article in Materials takes a closer look at vegetable fibers (VFs) in cement composites, offering an interesting bibliometric analysis. The study breaks down how these fibers are being used ...

Once confined to the aerospace and automotive industries, composite materials have taken on an increasingly central role in contemporary architecture. By combining two or more components, such as ...

There's a lot that goes on under the hood, but with some car models, most of the complication can be seen with the naked eye, ...

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Brazilian company Planefibra has launched Planemax, an opaque roofing panel made from glass fibre reinforced polymer composite (GRP).The product has been developed for environments where corrosion ...

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and Indus Towers, an international telecom tower company, have announced a partnership to initiate research on glass fibre reinforced polymers as a ...

What just happened? A Microsoft-backed research team has set a new benchmark for optical fiber performance, developing a hollow-core cable that posts the lowest optical loss ever recorded in the ...

A new type of hollow optical fibre promises to boost the amount of data that can be carried in each glass strand, and to do so over longer distances. This could help to make telecommunications systems ...

Saint-Gobain will open a new glass mat factory in Oxford by the end of 2025. The facility enables vertical integration by producing fiberglass mats in-house. Around 70 new workers will support ...

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has commenced a trial using GlasGrid — a pavement reinforcement grid made of high-strength glass fibre — to treat identified cracks on the carriageway ...

The government’s industrial strategy was at risk of smashing into pieces after it emerged the country’s largest fibre glass factory is set to close. The Japanese owners of Electric Glass Fiber UK’s ...