Specialty Materials News
August 13, 2025 - LinkedIn
Join us at CAMX 2025 this September in Orlando! We'll be there (Booth H70) to discuss our Hy-Bor® portfolio of unidirectional boron fiber-carbon fiber prepregs for advanced composites. In addition to our booth, you can also see some of our latest Hy-Bor developments produced in collaboration with Toray (Booth Q13).
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Boron Fiber is The Greatest Single Advance in Materials in the Last 3000 Years
Lowell Firm Flies High
Specialty Materials Inc. (SMI), a firm specializing in composite fiber and prepreg products that support the aerospace industry from Lowell, Massachusetts, has been named the National Subcontractor of the Year.
Life Before Carbon Fiber: Why Boron Fiber is Still Relevant as a Composite Reinforcement
Primary Topics:
Properties of boron fiber and composites made from boron fiber
Technology readiness level of boron-based products and applications
Manufacturing of boron fiber
Optimizing composite performance by combining boron and carbon fibers
Boron fiber: The original high-performance fiber
History and future developments for high-performance boron fiber.