Article: Air, land & sea: composites advance: part II of our report on the leading international composites show includes news for everything from high-tech aircraft manufacturing to boat building and automotive SMC.

Several of the exciting new technologies at this spring's JEC Composites show in Paris emerged from the development of the Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 passenger planes. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, due in 2007, will have the most composites of any aircraft--50% by weight, up from 12% on the Boeing 777--while Airbus Industrie's enormous doubledecker A380, due in 2006, will be the world's largest plane and 22% of it will be composites.

But not everything at JEC was aimed at aircraft. Other new products are tailored for automotive, marine, wind-power, and electrical applications. These included developments in thermoplastic composites, reinforcements, tooling materials, ...

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