The CASE industry has done a phenomenal job adjusting to the complexities of the past several years, which included challenges related to numerous force majeures, alternative supply considerations, reformulations, working capital adjustments, and overall business...
The global wind energy industry currently consumes around $600 million of adhesives in the manufacture of turbine blades. Adhesives are used to bond the two shell halves, as well as the shear webs that comprise wind turbine blades (see Figure 1). Adhesives are...
As we wade into the waters of 2023 planning, it seems the world has finally shifted to a post-COVID mindset. We are all eager to put that era behind us, along with the supply chain upheavals, surging costs, and shortages. However, uncertainty and volatility seem...
Lightweighting of structures is most often associated with automotive applications. However, lightweighting is a challenge across the transportation sector, including trucks, trailers, buses, passenger rail cars, and even heavy earth-moving equipment and cranes. For...
As the world emerges from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy is seeing some positive indicators for growth, with sustained high demand. The recovery gained traction in 2021 following the introduction of vaccines and reduced protocols related to...
The biomimicry toolkit that man has to play with is, for all practical purposes, limitless. The superior designs discovered in nature have inspired many research programs from around the world, both at the university and commercial levels. Reverse-engineering research...
