Integrated manufacturing of REciclable multi-material COmposites for the TRANSport sector

AIMPLAS, Technological Institute of Plastics located in Valencia, is a private, non-profit Association with more than 500 associated companies created in 1990. AIMPLAS is formed by +105 highly skilled professional, more than 65% with a Masters, Engineering or equivalent degree in Chemistry, polymer engineering, materials engineering or equivalent, including 15 PhD.

AIMPLAS, Technological Institute of Plastics located in Valencia, is a private, non-profit Association with more than 500 associated companies created in 1990. AIMPLAS is formed by +105 highly skilled professional, more than 65% with a Masters, AIMPLAS’ fields of work are related to technological research and development on thermoplastic and thermosetting plastic materials & products, its transformation processes and their recyclability and sustainability. AIMPLAS generates new knowledge and technologies that can be transferred to companies in order to help them to increase their effectiveness and competitiveness.

AIMPLAS has a broad expertise in the fields of polymers, biopolymers and renewable source materials, nanocomposites, and biotechnological processes, gained during the last years in the frame of EU and national projects. Nowadays, AIMPLAS is involved in more than 29 European projects and has participated in 78 projects in FP5, FP6, FP7, LIFE+, CIP-EcoInnovation and H2020 EU Programmes, among others, coordinating 37 of them. At National and Regional levels AIMPLAS participates in around 100 projects yearly.

AIMPLAS, as RTO is focused to help companies in the plastic sector to develop new products and increase their competitiveness through innovation, has more than 20 pilot plants representing the most relevant polymer/plastics/composites production technologies present in the industry nowadays and has state-of-the art test facilities for chemical, optical, morphological, mechanical and physical characterisation. These pilot lines and laboratories are used by many customer’s every year allowing them to test new materials, optimize production processes and launch new products to the market, supported by AIMPLAS technical staff, resulting in more than 5000 assays, 170 technical assessments and 120 skills training actions to more than 1500 clients per year.

AIMPLAS has state-of-the-art 8500 m2 facilities, including thermoplastics and thermoset pilot plants, analysis and testing laboratories (physical-mechanical, chemical, packaging, automotive and construction) and training areas.

AIMPLAS’s role in the Project will be: project coordinator, ensuring the success of project’s activities, efficient Grant management, communication with the EC and risk management; communication and dissemination leader, directing the activities aimed at achieving a wide spread of the project and its results; technical partner specialised in pilot plant processing of multi-material components and integration of unconventional technologies (RTM and pultrusion) for transport applications.

» Publication Date: 01/11/2017

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