COMPAIR

DEVELOPMENT OF A MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SMALL SIZE COMPLEX-SHAPED STRUCTURAL AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS

Coordinatore	DENROY PLASTICS LIMITED    more  Organization address address: Clandeboye Road city: BANGOR postcode: BT20 3JH contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: William Francis Trevor Cognome: Kirkpatrick Email: send email Telefono: +44 02891 462141 Fax: +44 02891 451654
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙291˙702 €
EC contributo	958˙596 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2012
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-09-01   -   2014-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	DENROY PLASTICS LIMITED  Organization address address: Clandeboye Road city: BANGOR postcode: BT20 3JH contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: William Francis Trevor Cognome: Kirkpatrick Email: send email Telefono: +44 02891 462141 Fax: +44 02891 451654	UK (BANGOR)	coordinator	362˙589.00
2	5M SRO  Organization address address: NA ZAHONECH 1177 city: KUNOVICE postcode: 686 04 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Richard Cognome: Pavlica Email: send email Telefono: +42 0572433744 Fax: +42 0572433700	CZ (KUNOVICE)	participant	329˙367.00
3	SISTEMAS Y CONTROL DEL MEDITERRANEO SL  Organization address address: AV REINA SOFIA 63 city: SANG VERDE MURCIA postcode: 30833 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Juan Cognome: Celdran Email: send email Telefono: +34 902934981	ES (SANG VERDE MURCIA)	participant	229˙063.00
4	Airbus Operations Limited  Organization address address: "New Filton House, Filton" city: BRISTOL postcode: BS99 7AR contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Philippa Cognome: Rowe Email: send email Telefono: +44 1179364429	UK (BRISTOL)	participant	23˙967.00
5	THE UK MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED  Organization address address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE city: MIDDLE ASTON OXFORDSHIRE postcode: OX25 5PT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Richard Cognome: Baker Email: send email Telefono: +44 1664 501413 Fax: +441664 501589	UK (MIDDLE ASTON OXFORDSHIRE)	participant	9˙485.00
6	INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE ARAGON  Organization address address: MARIA DE LUNA 8 city: ZARAGOZA postcode: 50018 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: José-Ramón Cognome: Valdés Email: send email Telefono: +34 976011160 Fax: +34 976 011888	ES (ZARAGOZA)	participant	4˙125.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The manufacturing of plastic mouldings and assemblies is today dominated by low labour regions. This has led to a fall in the European SME market share for moulded components during the last 10 years. European SMEs within this segment need to develop more innovative products and manufacturing processes to be competitive in the market. One of the industries using increasing volumes of plastic and composite parts is the aircraft industry.

We propose to develop a novel manufacturing technology using the benefits of carbon fibre as reinforcement and a high performance thermoplastic as the matrix material utilising the high processing speed of injection moulding. The output of this project will be a new technology for making thermoplastic mouldings reinforced with inserted carbon fibre preforms. This will enable the aircraft industry to enhance functionality and reduce environmental impact through weight saving (replacing denser metal parts) leading to lower fuel consumption. The potential to use thermoplastic components that are easily recyclable provides an additional incentive. The use of injection moulding as a relatively rapid production process will provide up to 30% cost reduction. The project offers European SMEs an opportunity to develop high value manufacturing capabilities that can compete with low labour cost economies.

We have identified the civil aircraft industry as the primary market for the new technology. We also expect to be able to produce lightweight advanced structural parts for the gas and oil, transport and automotive sectors. We estimate the market opportunity, by penetrating the primary market for the first five years after the project, is equal to €147M of revenue from sales and licensing of the technology. The initial market strategy will be to concentrate on the EC market, where the consortium has a strong market presence and a clear route to market through the partnership with Airbus.'