Research & Development Market 18 22 Trend 41 Self healing How Industry 4.0 affects the composite production landscape Self-healing cross-ply laminates - encouraging test results Carbon To develop its carbon production, China faces many challenges 44 Fibre placement Automated path planning and thermographic monitoring for automated fibre placement 22 47 Microwave Susceptors improve microwave curing technology for thermosetting resins Technology & Innovations 51 41 LFT New technology for long fibre compounds 51 53 The gathering of composite experts community Intermediate products Efficient prepreg processing with speciality papers 55 Multimaterial Multimaterial joining of steel inserts with continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastics 59 Manufacturing A new step in automotive manufacturing 61 25 Process Manufacturing with wood-plastic composites No104 April - May 2016 / jec composites magazine 7