Photo Credit: Cevotec GmbH The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University (WSU, Wichita, Kan., U.S.) has announced that it has selected Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology to expand its technology portfolio for future composites production technologies. The installation of Cevotec GmbH’s (Munich, Germany) SAMBA Pro Prepreg system at NIAR’s Advanced Technologies Lab for Aerospace Systems (ATLAS) will be ready by end of 2021. “Together with our U.S. partner Composite Automation, we are excited about this first FPP system in the United States and look forward to future R&D collaborations with NIAR,” states Thorsten Groene, managing director of Cevotec.