Thursday, March 22, 2007

New generation of out of autoclave prepregs from Advanced Composites

New generation of out of autoclave prepregs

News Release

21 Mar 2007

In 2004, the Advanced Composites Group Limited (Heanor, UK), part of the Composites Division of Umeco plc, supplied materials for use on Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne and its carrier plane White Knight.

Now, Richard Branson’s Virgin Group’s new commercial spaceline, Virgin Galactic, will offer commercial spaceflight - commercial suborbital passenger space service. Virgin Galactic will operate five spaceship systems manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a joint venture between Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites. The SpaceShipTwo vehicle and the White Knight 2 carrier plane are to be built from a new generation of out of autoclave prepregs developed by the Advanced Composites Group.

Read the full report from here @ JEC Composites

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Thursday, March 8, 2007

Wipro to buy U.S. aerospace services firm

Wipro to buy U.S. aerospace services firm

Mar 8, 2007

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Wipro Ltd., India's third-largest software exporter, is close to buying a U.S.-based aerospace services company for about $90 million, the Economic Times reported today. Wipro's offerings in the aerospace industry include embedded systems, consulting, engineering, and design services.

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Thursday, March 1, 2007

Boeing Awards Four-year Outsourcing Contract to Kenexa

Boeing Awards Four-year Outsourcing Contract to Kenexa

February 28, 2007

Kenexa will provide workforce survey services to Boeing. The aerospace company has awarded a four-year outsourcing contract to Kenexa, a talent acquisition and retention solutions provider, to provide workforce survey services to gather valuable employee feedback.

Kenexa will provide various employee surveys and behavior change recommendations and tools.

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