Imagine, if you will, the process of specifying an industrial dryer if you were explaining it in a classic children’s book.

4M Industrial Oxidation LLC (4M) announced the consummation of its reverse merger with Woodland Holdings Corp.

Funding intended to drive the use of high performance supercomputers to advance U.S. manufacturing via public-private partnerships is expected to have corollary effect of carbon fiber manufacturing technology development.

Researchers estimate a new production method can reduce the cost of carbon fiber as much as 50 percent and cut the energy used in its production by more than 60 percent.

Initial data from testing on a nearly 10' wide (3 m) production-scale oxidation oven designed for carbon fiber manufacturing shows good temperature and air velocity uniformity.

Due to the high demand for carbon fiber in automotive production, SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers plans to triple the capacity of the carbon fiber plant in Moses Lake, Wash.

A production-scale carbon fiber conversion line is under construction following a $38 million contract awarded to Harper International.