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From the Field

10/23/2025

From the Field: How Composites Are Shaking Up the Pickleball Industry

From the Field: How Composites Are Shaking Up the Pickleball Industry Pickleball is booming—and so is innovation around the paddle. What was once a…

From the Field

10/23/2025

From the Field: Downhole Tools Surviving High-Temp Frac Conditions

From the Field: Downhole Tools Surviving High-Temp Frac Conditions In high-temperature frac environments, heat, pressure, and aggressive fluids combine to push materials past their…

Engineer's Edge

10/23/2025

Engineer’s Edge: Why Thickness Uniformity Is Harder Than It Sounds

Engineer’s Edge: Why Thickness Uniformity Is Harder Than It Sounds Getting a composite part to the right thickness sounds simple—but it’s not. Heat flow,…

Engineer's Edge

10/23/2025

Engineer’s Edge: Which Strength Tests Are Most Misunderstood? Our Top 3

Engineer’s Edge: Which Strength Tests Are Most Misunderstood? Our Top 3 Not all strength tests mean what people think they do. Here are three…

Engineer's Edge

10/23/2025

Engineer’s Edge: Quick Guide to the Strengths of Filament Winding

Filament winding is a highly automated composite manufacturing process that delivers precision, performance, and efficiency. Unlike hand layup or other molding techniques, filament winding…

Engineer's Edge

10/23/2025

Engineer’s Edge: The Difference Between Tensile Strength and Modulus

Engineer’s Edge: The Difference Between Tensile Strength and Modulus When engineers talk about material performance, two terms often come up: tensile strength and modulus…

Ask Our Engineers

10/23/2025

Ask Our Engineers: Can You Really Over-Engineer a Part? Our Take.

Ask Our Engineers: Can You Really Over-Engineer a Part? Our Take. It’s a question we hear often: Can a part be too strong, too…

Product

01/13/2024

General Plastics & Composites announces new Foundational Four, including updated Value Proposition

General Plastics & Composites announces new Foundational Four, including updated Value Proposition The General Plastics & Composites management team has developed a new mission,…

News

01/10/2024

General Plastics & Composites Attains ISO 9001 Certification

General Plastics & Composites Attains ISO 9001 Certification General Plastics & Composites announced that it has received ISO 9001 certification, awarded by Det Norske…