A Glenwood Springs-based manufacturer of lightweight thermoplastic parts, and the high-tech mechanical equipment that produces them, continues its expansion locally and globally. Since opening its ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. – U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., will be in Glenwood Springs this afternoon to visit the Fiberforge thermoplastics manufacturing plant on Devereux Road. The stop is one of two ...

BASALT – Wheel wells for spare tires and an automotive part called a strut tower brace hardly sound like the tools of revolution. And Basalt hardly seems like the place to incubate a revolution.But ...

Wheel wells for spare tires and an automotive part called a strut tower brace hardly sound like the tools of revolution. And Basalt hardly seems like the place to incubate a revolution.But that’s ...

The local technology company Fiberforge, which employed 22 people designing and making lightweight thermoplastic components in Glenwood Springs, has gone out of business and transferred control of its ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — A company that's all about lightening the weight of products is starting to make a heavy economic imprint in Garfield County. Fiberforge, which is involved in the thermoplastic ...

The tape layup technology facilitates the manufacture of components made from continuous-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics based on uni-directional fiber tapes (UD fiber tapes). Such components are of ...

I don't watch boxing, so for me the term "lightweight" in the past had a slightly negative connotation. As in, something that couldn't quite pull its weight. But these days, thinking lightweight is ...

The idea driving Fiberforge isn’t fuel. It’s lighter cars. “Anything that needs to be moved from Point A to Point B would use less fuel and less energy to accelerate it, move it, and decelerate it if ...

In 1994, Amory Lovins founded the Hypercar Center as a nonprofit through Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI, Snowmass, Colo.) in hopes of developing an ultra-lightweight, super fuel-efficient automobile.