Carbon Fiber Composites

Lightweight, high-strength composites for transportation and construction.

LUX TAKE:

Carbon fiber is poised for strong growth in new industries but won't be revolutionary without a breakthrough on cost. Instead, it will play a supporting role in multimaterial designs across transportation and construction applications.

Data last updated on August 14, 2018

What's New

Lux Research analysts and the Lux Intelligence Engine have added the following recent carbon fiber composites developments.

News Commentaries

Ferrari and PPG develop low-temperature curing paint for composite components (August 8, 2018)

Sinopec subsidiary developing large-tow carbon fiber production tech (August 7, 2018)

New Lux Content

Material Innovations That Facilitate Digital Transformation: Digital transformation is disrupting every industry and requires improving the performance of hardware, providing business opportunities for materials with favored properties. In this report, we monitored patents for nearly 700 material technologies and 10 digital toolbox items and identified the hotspots of material innovations facilitating digital transformation. The report presents case studies on three hotspots to demonstrate how material innovations create value for the development of digital toolbox items.

Facing the Functional Coatings Conundrum: The Market Opportunity for New Value Propositions in Coatings: Hydrophobic, photocatalytic, and antimicrobial coatings present a tantalizing new growth opportunity for coating and chemicals companies but because of fragmented markets, disparate market needs, and novel value propositions they have proved challenging to commercialize. To help guide clients this report includes case studies on functional coatings commercialization efforts, sizes the market for these coatings, and recommends strategies for success.

New Patents

Boeing: Composite layers with exposed reinforcement

DowDuPont: Epoxy systems employing triethylaminetetraamine and tin catalysts

New Investment Rounds

Carbon Fibre Preforms has raised $1.02 million in funding (July 26, 2018)

fos4X has raised $9.53 million in Series B funding (June 15, 2018)

Categories	Fiber reinforced plastics
Related companies	Connora Technologies, Arevo, Volute, N12 Technologies, Infinite Composites Technologies, Seriforge, Markforged, IsoTruss Industries, Impossible Objects, 4M Carbon Fiber Corp, Suragus, Axia Materials, Cevotec

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