Outlet profile

CompositesWorld

U.S. trade press (composites industry)

Owned byGardner Business Media, Inc., a privately held, family-owned company based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

FundingMainly advertising and sponsorships from composites suppliers and manufacturers. It also earns revenue from events, marketing services and free-to-qualified-reader magazines and newsletters. It is part of a company that also sells market research (Gardner Intelligence).

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

CompositesWorld traces its roots to two magazines, High-Performance Composites (first issue September 1993) and Composites Technology. Gardner Business Media acquired the brand in 2007. In January 2015 the two magazines were merged into a single monthly magazine called CompositesWorld, along with a companion website and newsletters. Jeff Sloan has been editor-in-chief since 2006. Gardner Business Media was founded in 1928 by Don Gardner with Modern Machine Shop magazine, and later generations of the family still run it. Gardner also publishes other manufacturing trade titles, and it acquired NetComposites' media assets. The outlet is supported by industry advertisers and partners with industry groups such as IACMI as a preferred media partner. Its perspective is pro-industry and technical. It tends to give favorable coverage to company announcements and technology advances, and it rarely does adversarial investigative reporting. I found no notable editorial controversies. Its political content is minimal, and policy items appear mainly as business news. This profile is based on limited review of its recent political coverage.

Sources

Profile compiled 2026-10-19; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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