Carbures will take part in the Aerospace and Defense Meetings (ADM) 2016 throughout the whole week. This professional event, which takes place in Seville and is organized by Extenda (Regional Government of Andalusia), celebrates its third edition and counts with the participation of 464 aerospace and defense companies from 28 countries. Carbures is at stand 17, where we show our technology and our ability to produce aircraft parts in composites (such as carbon fiber). In addition to multiple conferences, roundtables and workshops, there are more than 8.000 business-to-business meetings scheduled for this week. Some of the most prominent companies that will attend the ADM this year are Airbus (which is also a sponsor of this event), Alestis, Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer. [...]

Carbures is holding from Monday the 25th until Saturday the 30th in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) the third edition of its International Week. Around one hundred of managers in the Company are assisting this meeting, in representation of almost one thousand Carbures’s employees in three continents (America, Europe and Asia). [...]

The world of motors shivered on the 20th of March because of an accident that fortunately ended up well. Spanish Formula 1 pilot Fernando Alonso came out uninjured from a crash that made some of us fear he could have died.

The key on the pilot´s accident was the carbon fiber recovering the survival cell and the pilot’s cabin (cockpit). Both parts of the Formula 1 car are constructed from composite sheets of this material and can reach up to 60 layers in a honeycomb structure. [...]

Harbin Carbures Guanglian Aeronautic Composite Materials (HCG), which is Carbures’s subsidiary in China, celebrated the delivery ceremony of the first part of Airbus A350XWB Belly Fairing Honeycomb. The event was attended by Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre General Manager, Olivier Guillon; Contract Director, Alastair Vance; Quality Director, Manuel Fernández Vidrié; Procurement Manager, Xu Fujun; Outsourcing Lead Manager, Ana de León; and some members of the Supply Chain Multi-Function Team. Olivier Guillon and Francisco López Lobatón, former General Director of HCG, were invited to cut the ribbon at the ceremony. [...]

In Carbures we continue innovating. The company counts with a new product made up on composite mesh used as armours for cement structures. 

The first order we have sent includes the renovation of the rail and the infrastructure refurbishment of Alicante´s line´s 9 tramway in the stretch between Altea and Calpe. It was assembled on Tecnobahia´s plant, in Puerto de Santa María.

The replacement of the traditional steel rods from the armours by GFRP (Glas Fiber Reinforced Polymers) involve significant improvements in construction.  [...]

Carbures flew to Germany last week as a guest to AIRTEC, the main Fair of the aeronautic sector of the year, attending giants like Airbus and major European suppliers, both Tier 1 and 2 of the supply chain for aircrafts.

AIRTEC celebrated its tenth edition in Munich, where participated more than 600 exhibitors, 15,000 bilateral meetings of business and activities, and 230 conferences on the latest developments in the sector, given by specialists in the field during the three days of the event. [...]

Carbures showed in Japan its industrial technology for the manufacture of car parts in carbon fiber. The Company has been one of the eleven Spanish car manufacturers of components chosen to represent Spain, the past 22 and 23 of October, in the Japan Spain Innovation Program (JISP).

Spain sent a representation of leading companies in automotive technology who shared their knowledge and showed their industrial developments to Japanese leading companies, manufacturers like Toyota. [...]

Our President Rafael Contreras published an editorial yesterday in “El País”, Spain’s leading newspaper, about the industrial revolution of the carbon fiber in the automotive sector.

RafaelContreras explained that being squeezed the engines to the maximum to minimize pollutant emissions,car manufacturers are now focused on lightening the weight of vehicles by replacing metal parts withcarbon fiber to make cars more efficient and less polluting. [...]