American Composites Manufacturers Association website in an article entitled" attention: 2012 during the development of" the article wrote: the past year was full of success stories, these stories greatly revitalized the composites industry, accelerate the composite material to enter a new market trends. In 2011, goodbye, there are a number of R & D in the interesting technology is expected to achieve in 2012. We pick a few.

Lighter vehicles

In 2011, auto industry begins from cars and trucks by thousands of pounds of weight, in order to improve fuel efficiency. Carbon fiber suppliers ( such as SGL Group and QuickSilver company ) and the European car giant ( such as BMW and Audi ) contract, ready to whip manufacturing composite materials auto parts of the new wave.

More aircraft

Aviation composite materials with Boeing 787 aircraft in 2011 September through the flight test and soaring to new heights. 787 not only to aircraft technology expanding to new boundary, and the composite material is brought to the front page of information source. The next target see A350 Airbus XWB aircraft.

The flying car

The United States produced by Terrafugia company called Transition winged car flying car ( or" Continental line plane" ) is a kind of composite material intensive car. It may be in less than a minute to fly to the sky. This is used for street law enforcement vehicle is expected to in 2012 on the road, costs $250000 or more.

According to the newspaper as well as several empty land amphibious aircraft prototype is tested, there is more to type in the design.

Composite bridge

As the world's longest composite bridge Knickerbocker bridge, the bridge is more use of composite materials to extend life and reduce maintenance. This increases the composite materials in large-scale structure in the presence of, and provide people with the opportunity, to learn more about composite material.