The people at Premier Autoclaves are well known as the goto guys for all things autoclave in the UK, and increasingly elsewhere in Europe. They were set up as a service and upgrade business back in ...

Autoclave processing remains the backbone of advanced composite structure production. One of its primary goals is to fully cure a prepreg’s thermoset polymer matrix by initiating and sustaining ...

Historically, most designers of structural composite components for aerospace applications have taken for granted the need for an autoclave cure. Despite the fact that cost and time advantages of ...

Parameters for steam-sterilization autoclave overkill cycles should be chosen based on process understanding. Conventionally, the term “overkill cycle" in validation of a steam-sterilization autoclave ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is set to publish new guidance for the operation of autoclaves following an on-going investigation into a fatal incident at Sterecycles facility in Rotherham. In ...

Sterilization validation must be based on a robust, quality-by-design philosophy; autoclave overkill cycles should be validated by correlating lethality data to support chosen critical process ...

In parallel to developing new recycling solutions, the r-LightBioCom project is also rethinking how high-performance composites are manufactured, with a strong focus on energy efficiency, ...

Engineering company VT Group has today (June 8) unveiled a “full-scale” trial autoclave facility to showcase the technology it aims to use to treat Wakefield's residual waste under a much-delayed £750 ...

Rio Tinto, Kennecott Utah Copper’s (KUC) parent company, will invest $340 million in the construction of a new molybdenum autoclave process (MAP) facility at KUC in Magna, Utah. This will ensure lower ...