The composites industry currently has numerous innovations in its process technologies, especially for hybrid structures and integrated manufacturing, e.g. for high-performance SMC manufacturing with carbon fibre reinforcement, for thermoplastic components and for quality assurance.

The 4^th international Composites Congress (ICC) will take place from 5 to 6 November 2018 in Stuttgart. One of the two series of talks will therefore address precisely these topics.

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• Less positive rating of the general economic situation
• Positive expectations on individual business situations
• Investment climate continues to be favourable
• Growth drivers are remaining stable
• Divergent Composites Index

This is the tenth time that Composites Germany (www.composites-germany.org) has identified up-to-date KPIs for the fibre-reinforced plastics market. Again, the survey covered all the member companies of the four biggest umbrella organisations of Composites Germany: AVK, CCeV, CFK-Valley and the VDMA Working Group on Hybrid Lightweight Construction Technologies.

As before, to ensure a smooth comparison with the previous surveys, the questions in this half-yearly survey had been left unchanged. The data obtained in the survey was largely qualitative again in relation to current and future market developments.

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At the last Board meeting of the trade association Composites Germany on 20 November 2017 Michael Effing, PhD, Chairman of the Board of the Federation of Reinforced Plastics (AVK) and Managing Director of AMAC GmbH, was confirmed in his office as Chairman of the Board of Composites Germany.

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