JEC Group has revealed the program for its five conferences organized with The 8th Annual JEC Asia Composites Show at the SUNTEC Center in Singapore, October 20-22, 2015.

A panel of 20 speakers from 10 countries will share and exchange with delegates expected from 43 countries. Two of these sessions are organized in partnership with TUM Asia in Singapore and Hanyang University in the Republic of Korea.

According to organizers, being environmentally conscious is no longer a suggestion but a requirement. Governmental legislation is increasing in order to gain better control over which products are manufactured in a wide range of products. Composite materials in particular, have for a while now been encouraged to go “green” by developing the use of natural fibers, cleaner resins and recycling opportunities.

As the use of composite materials becomes more widespread in every major industry, the need for efficient and well-adapted simulation tools has equally grown. Indispensable for behavioral predictions thanks to the structural analysis and optimization they provide, software tools provide reliable and pre-manufacturing solutions in design.

Along these lines, the pressure of productivity rates and mass production has brought an increase in the use of flexible robotics which will be delved into during this session.

Thanks to their high strength and lightweight properties, composite materials are becoming increasingly widespread in the aerospace industry. Light-weighting is a particularly important challenge for the industry, as it allows for fuel reductions, but it is a difficult one as aeronautical parts possess stringent quality requirements. Other major current challenges for this industry when it comes to composite materials include: reduced assembly time and maintenance, and greater impact resistance in airframes.

High-speed production is one of the biggest challenges of the automotive industry when it comes to composite materials, notably in order to achieve cost parity with metal equivalents. Thanks to process innovations and adapted epoxy resins, cycle-times for high-performance structural parts have already been significantly reduced during these last few years, but the incentive to lower them even more and thus attain the crucial one-minute cycle time.

Over the years, these types of vessels, which hold liquids and gases under pressure, have been through different stages: from all-metal to metal or plastic lined composite tanks, and finally to a linerless tank.

These high-pressure storage tanks are one of the fastest growing market for advanced composites and this session will focus both on market trends and the latest innovations.