Oct 27, 2011 03:36 EDT New BAUER Vapor APX composite ice hockey stick features TeXtreme® Spread Tow carbon fabrics and is a continuation on the prosperous usage of TeXtreme® in previous versions of BAUER hockey sticks. The BAUER Vapor APX stick is currently available at retail locations throughout the world.
Oct 04, 2011 08:05 EDT Nuon Solar Team will compete with their car Nuna 6, where the predecessors Nuna 1-4 won the competition four times consecutively between 2001 and 2007. Luuk Akkerman, Head of Production Nuna 6 at Nuon Solar Team, says: "TeXtreme®'s Spread Tow fibers make big differences especially in light-weight projects like solar cars, where great stiffness as well as low weight is required"
Oct 04, 2011 08:02 EDT UM Solar at University of Michigan will compete with their car Quantum in the 2011 World Solar Challenge taking place in the Australian Outback. "We were able to shave 200 pounds from our 2009 car, Infinium, to the new car, Quantum, and the TeXtreme® weave we used is a key part of this change”, says Blaine Riley, Head of Sourcing at UM Solar car.
Sep 20, 2011 06:13 EDT UK-based Composites Evolution who is working with Biotex natural yarns have supplied flax/PP tapes that has been woven into a fabric using Oxeon’s unique Tape Weaving Technology to create a new TeXtreme® Spread Tow Fabrics variant based on natural fibers.
Sep 01, 2011 04:05 EDT North Kiteboarding has once again chosen to use TeXtreme® to reinforce their latest models of the high-performance Select and Team Series kite boards. TeXtreme® Spread Tow Fabrics have contributed in reducing weight, improving surface smoothness and enhancing stiffness of the boards.
Sep 01, 2011 04:02 EDT North Kiteboarding has once again chosen to use TeXtreme® to reinforce their latest models of the high-performance Select and Team Series kite boards. TeXtreme® Spread Tow Fabrics have contributed in reducing weight, improving surface smoothness and enhancing stiffness of the boards.
Jul 18, 2011 12:05 EDT Fanatic Windsurfing recently released their latest board range and among them are also this year the high-performance premium board FreeWave TeXtreme. The FreeWave TeXtreme have benefited from the weight savings and exceptional mechanical properties that comes from usage of TeXtreme® Spread Tow Fabrics.
Jul 18, 2011 12:10 EDT “Through the cooperation with Oxeon and the flexibility of TeXtreme® we have come up with the optimized reinforcement for a windsurfing board. Utilizing this unbalanced TeXtreme® carbon fabric gives an ultra light board with great features for the riders”, says Jürgen May, Product Engineer of Fanatic.
Jul 06, 2011 07:26 EDT Image of the car of one of the teams using TeXtreme®; Chalmers Formula Student (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden). There are images available of the cars of the TeXtreme® reinforced teams for Formula Student 2011 on the TeXtreme® Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.241217222573206.77900.168108739884055)
May 04, 2011 11:23 EDT Wednesday the 4th of May Oxeon had the pleasure of welcoming the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to Oxeon’s headquarters in Borås, Sweden.
