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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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The new institute pairs leading carbon fiber producers and suppliers—such as Materials Innovation Technologies, Harper International, and Strongwell—with key end users such as TPI for wind turbines and Ford, Honda and Volkswagen for automobiles. PolyOne Corporation; PPG Industries, Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. These projects are being undertaken as part of the Clean Energy Dialogue with Canada. Optodot Corporation.

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DOE awards $1.87M to 7 projects to advance high performance computing in manufacturing

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Part of DOE’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program ( earlier post ), the seven new public private partnerships will enable greater collaboration between DOE national labs and the US manufacturing industry. A 10% implementation of carbon fiber composites in 10% of new vehicles can reduce fuel usage by 1.9

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ARPA-E selects 13 projects for $30M in awards to advance natural gas vehicle technologies

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parts, leading to a more reliable, lighter, and cost effective. Corporation. Eaton Corporation will develop an at-home natural gas. Eaton will engineer a heat-transfer. This fast-fueling design has very few moving parts, will operate quietly, and will. current carbon fiber tanks at one-third the cost.

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