Webinar: Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper, Better: Harnessing the Power of Carbon Fiber

Despite such wow-inducing achievements of carbon fiber such as in record-breaking Olympian Oscar Pistorius’ prosthetic legs, Lenovo’s self-proclaimed “world’s lightest” Ultrabook, and Nike’s latest basketball shoes, thus far high cost and technical hurdles have restricted widespread use of composites fabricated from this advanced material to high-end niche applications. Nevertheless, we now find ourselves at a very exciting precipice in the carbon fiber composites timeline, as they have begun to move beyond sporting goods and defense applications and into the commercial realm of aerospace, wind, and automotive. This webinar will:

• Examine the increasingly dense web of partnerships between material developers and industry users
• Analyze the cost and innovation opportunities associated with each process step from precursor to carbon fiber to composite part
• Forecast the demand for carbon fiber composites in a range of industry sectors including sporting goods, aerospace, wind, oil and gas, automotive, marine, tooling, pressure vessels, medical, electronics, and construction