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Media and Trade Groups

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Web Sites, Newsletters and Portals

Composite Industry

NetComposites — Great web site with an excellent Guide to Composites, Newsroom, Newsletter, On-line Book Store, Industry Information, Careers Center and Forum
JEC Composites — Sponsors of the JEC Show, Publisher of JEC Composites magazine, On-line news, Newsletter, Classified advertising, Composites Finder, About Composites
Lucintel - Expanding your business and career - Online news, News letter, Recruiting, Market reports and consulting, Composites Exchange
Euro Composits - European service providers, and other information about composites (in French)
CompositeIndustry.Info is part of Samanthi Publications Pvt. Ltd., the Publishers of FRP Today, India's first Magazine for FRP Composites. News and other industry info.
Worldwide Composites Search Engine - The largest database of composite industry related web sites on the internet! by Deltronix Enterprises
Fiberglass World - established as a world wide trading site for information to promote trade in the Fiberglass Industry
CMR
Composite Market Reports - Fee based service providing market information to the advanced composites community for over 30 years in the form of monthly newsletters, market research reports, quarterly calendars of upcoming events, and consulting. Published by Bill Benjamin.
CompositesBRIEF & Thermoplastics Weekly Summary- Published by Jim Best, Market Search, Inc. 2727 Holland Sylvania Road, Suite A, Toledo, Ohio 43615 Phone: 419-535-7899 Fax: 419-535-1243

Other Related Industries

 
AZoM.com (the A to Z of Materials)
 
Inteletex - Textile News and Industry Analysis
  Performance-Materials.Net - the internet’s most comprehensive source for online news and features about advanced and high-performance materials. Coverage includes advanced composites, engineering ceramics, performance plastics, and biomedical materials. Fee based service.
 
Polymerlinks - links to Plastics Machinery, Material, Mould manufacturers, Mould Designers, Software packages for Plastics industry and a lot more information on 160 categories of plastics.
Polymer Engineering plus - Supporting the polymer Industry
  PolymerProcessing.com aspires to be the preferred source of fundamental information for professionals and students in the field of polymer processing.
  PlastUnivers - El portal de los plásticos en español (In Spanish)

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Industry Trade Groups

Composite Industry

-- North America --

ASM International - The materials information society - Founded in 1913, ASM International is one of the world's largest technical societies; it is dedicated to the gathering and dissemination of information on engineered materials, including polymer composites.
American Composites Manufacturers Association— The world's largest trade association serving the composites industry. With more than 1,100 members from across the globe.
Composite Manufacturing Technical Group of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
SPE Composites Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers — an organized forum for the promotion and dissemination of information on the science, engineering fundamentals and applications of advanced polymer composite materials
Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
SPI Society of the Plastics Industry

-- Europe --

Assocompositi - Assocompositi è l’associazione che raggruppa, tutela e promuove l’industria dei materiali compositi in Italia allo scopo di favorire lo sviluppo di tutte le potenzialità tecniche ed economiche di questi materiali. E’ finanziata con il contributo della quote di iscrizione delle aziende associate e si avvale della collaborazione di docenti universitari e di professionisti. (In Italian)
Composites Processing Association - Promotes the use of composite materials to the widest market spectrum - Represents the UK composites industry
CORONET - Thermoplastic Composites Infrastructure Cooperation Network - formed in 2001 specifically to improve access to thermoplastic composites infrastructure and to encourage the sharing of knowledge and best practice throughout Europe
EPTA - European Pultrusion Technology Association - association formed in 1989 by the leading FRC (Fiber Reinforced Composites) Pultruders in Europe
The European Alliance for SMC - Serves the industry with innovative and economic composite components and systems. Assists designers, manufacturers and end users in the application of SMC & BMC in the various industries.
The European Alliance for Thermoplastic Composites - Formed in 2000 by leading European companies, with a concerted commitment to the technological advancement of longfiber reinforced thermoplastics
The European Composites Industry Association - European Organization of Reinforced Plastics / Composite Materials

-- Australia & New Zealand --

Composites Australia — Composites Australia Inc., formerly known as Composites Institute of Australia, is a separately constituted corporate association tailored to benefit the members of Composites industry and their customers. The association represents suppliers of raw materials, fabricators and providers of services within the composites industry. With nearly 200 corporate members it provides a forum for the industry to exchange information and promote the development new markets.
Composites Association of New Zealand (CANZ) - Provides a forum for the composites industry to exchange information, celebrate successes and solve problems for all Composite Industry participants in New Zealand and the Pacific

-- Asia --

China FRP Industry Association - In Chinese
FRP Institute of India - A professional society for bringing together under one platform all those who are concerned with FRP Composites in order to promote the growth and development of FRP Composites and their industrial and technological base
Iran Composites Association - a technical, Non-Govemental Organization to promote the interests of both suppliers and consumers in the composites industries - in English and Persian
Japanese Reinforced Plastics Society (JRPS) - In Japanese
TCA
Thai Composites Association - Thai Composites Association (TCA) acts as a co-ordination center for exchanging views and technical knowledge among its members, acts as a center for disseminating the information of composites industry and co-ordinates with the related organizations both internally and on the international sphere. In Thai and English.

Other Related Industries

  TMS.org - The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
 
EUROMAP - the European committee of the national associations of machinery manufacturers for the plastics and rubber industries in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom

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Magazines and Trade Publications

Also see Universities & Labs - Academic Publications

-- North America --

  Ray PublishingHigh Performance Composites & Composites Technology - Magazines for Advanced Composites and Fiberglass Fabricators.
  CM Magazine — Composites Manufacturing, (CF) is the "Official Publication of the Composites Fabricators Association" serving composites manufacturers in architecture, bath, cast polymer, custom molding, pultrusion, closed molding, infrastructure, marine, sports, recreation, aerospace, transportation, and automotive
  Modern Plastics Worldwide - MPW is the only plastics publication dedicated to covering global business management issues, key technologies, and the latest manufacturing management trends for the international plastics industry.
Plastics Machinery & Auxiliaries - PM&A is a forum that presents products and services used in injection molding, extrusion, blowmolding, thermoforming, compounding, rotomolding, and more. It is targeted to the managers and supervisors who operate and maintain machinery, auxiliaries, tooling, components, and materials on the shop floor – the ones who actually make the purchasing decisions.
  Plastics News — Plastics News founded in 1989, reporting the news of the plastics industry completely, promptly and accurately
  Plastics Technology — Regarded as the premier source of technical and business information for plastics processors, Plastics Technology thrives as the industry's only magazine targeted solely at processors.

-- South America --

CompositesPlaza.com - (in Spanish) The industry platform which gathers the various organizations and companies involved in the composites industry in Latin America including fabricators, raw material and equipment suppliers, consultants, and educational institutions. CompositesPlaza.com provides the latest news in the industry, business opportunities, Events Calendar, Technical Downloads among other useful applications. — "Composites Plaza se ha posicionado como el sitio oficial de la industria de compuestos moldeables, y plástico reforzado del habla hispana. El tráfico de Composites Plaza se reparte sobre todo en México, y centroamérica."

  Revista do Plástico Reforçado/Composites - (In Portugese)

-- Europe --

Composites World - Russian Language composite magazine (In Russian & English)
  JEC Composites — A single source of world-wide information for both end-users and professionals in composites
  Reinforced Plastics — For over 40 years Reinforced Plastics has been reporting on international developments in the reinforced plastics industry.

-- Asia --

FRP TODAY is a monthly magazine for the composites industry published in India since the year 2000. Also publishes the Directory of Indian Composites Industry as an annual issue of FRP TODAY. The magazine and Directory reaches FRP Industry personnel all over India.

 

 

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Books and Commercial Publications

Including Research Reports, Industry Studies and Market Studies

Also see Universities - Academic Publications

These links link directly to the web site and open a new window

Lucintel - Expanding your business and career - Online news, News letter, Recruiting, Market reports and consulting, Composites Exchange
NetComposites — On-line Store with books, videos, journals, software and market reports - over 550 items
 
Research and Markets - General Market Reports, includes a good selection of composite related information.

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Standards Organizations

  ASTM - ASTM International is a not-for-profit organization that provides a global forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems, and services
  MIL-17 - The Composite Materials Handbook MIL-17
  ISO - International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
  DIN - Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Standards Institute) - in German and English
  NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology

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