ESPRIT
Resource-Efficient Self-Reinforced Plastic Materials and Processing
| Coordinatore | NETCOMPOSITES LIMITED
Organization address
address: BRIDGE WAY 4A BROOM BUSINESS PARK contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.espritproject.eu |
| Totale costo | 5˙551˙015 € |
| EC contributo | 3˙991˙583 € |
| Programma | FP7-NMP
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-NMP-2007-SME-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-TP |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-10-01 - 2012-03-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
NETCOMPOSITES LIMITED
Organization address
address: BRIDGE WAY 4A BROOM BUSINESS PARK contact info |
UK (CHESTERFIELD) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
AIMPLAS - ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE MATERIALES PLASTICOS Y CONEXAS
Organization address
address: CALLE GUSTAVE EIFFEL 4 PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE PATERNA contact info |
ES (PATERNA VALENCIA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
AVK-INDUSTRIEVEREINIGUNG VERSTARKTEKUNSTSTOFFE EV
Organization address
address: AM HAUPTBAHNHOF 10 contact info |
DE (FRANKFURT) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
Celstran GmbH
Organization address
address: Marie Curie 10 contact info |
DE (Kaiserslautern) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
COMFIL APS
Organization address
address: KAROLINELUNDSVEJ 2 contact info |
DK (GJERN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
FACT FUTURE ADVANCED COMPOSITES & TECHNOLOGY GMBH
Organization address
address: MARIE CURIE STRASSE 10 contact info |
DE (KAISERSLAUTERN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
FIBROLINE FRANCE SARL
Organization address
address: RUE AUGUSTE TRAMIER 20 contact info |
FR (ECULLY) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
FRICKE UND MALLAH MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGY GMBH
Organization address
address: WERNER NORDMEYER STR 25 contact info |
DE (PEINE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
INSTITUT FUER VERBUNDWERKSTOFFE GMBH
Organization address
address: ERWIN-SCHROEDINGER-STRASSE GEB 58 contact info |
DE (KAISERSLAUTERN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 10 |
PEMU MUANYAGIPARI ZARTKORUEN MUKODORESZVENYTARSASAG
Organization address
address: Tersztyanszky 89 contact info |
HU (SOLYMAR) | participant | 0.00 |
| 11 |
POLISILK SA
Organization address
address: CTRA DE MANRESA A IGUALADA contact info |
ES (GUARDIOLA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 12 |
PROMOLDING BV
Organization address
address: LAAN VAN YPENBURG 100 contact info |
NL (DEN HAAG) | participant | 0.00 |
| 13 |
REGLOPLAS AG
Organization address
address: FLURHOFSTRASSE 158C contact info |
CH (ST GALLEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 14 |
STRUCTOFORM SPRITZGIESSEN ANISOTROPER STRUKTURKOMPONENTEN GMBH
Organization address
address: JULICHER STRASSE 336 contact info |
DE (AACHEN) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The aims of the Esprit project are to reduce the amount of plastic used to make a component by 30% and reduce component weight by 30%, by developing the next generation of lightweight, self-reinforced plastics and the energy-efficient manufacturing processes needed to produce components from this family of materials. Current forms of self-reinforced plastics typically offer typically 3-5 times the strength and stiffness of unreinforced plastics, but they are only available in sheet or fabric form. This severely limits the range and types of components that can be manufactured and limits the commercial uptake of these important materials. The overall goal of this project is to develop materials and processes to allow flow moulding (injection moulding and compression moulding) of self-reinforced commodity polymers (polypropylene (PP), polyamide (PA) and PET). Key to this is the development of techniques that will allow the selective melting of the polymer matrix without causing adverse effects on the polymer fibre. This will therefore necessitate the development of energy-efficient microwave and induction-heating techniques to allow selective melting of the matrix polymer. High performance, commodity polymers will be used to develop self-reinforced plastics with significantly enhanced properties over existing plastic and, for the first time, the ability to be compression and injection moulded. This topic is particularly relevant to the work programme, which calls for new processing methods for speciality polymers that are more resource-efficient. Self-reinforced plastics are more resource efficient because they are 3-5 times stronger and stiffer than conventional polymers, so less material is needed to manufacture components to reach a particular specification, but they require innovative new heating processes to form them into components, which include alternative energy sources.'