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. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraftengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineeringengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2012-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2012 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator DENROY PLASTICS LIMITED Address Clandeboye road BT20 3JH Bangor United Kingdom See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact William Francis Trevor Kirkpatrick (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all SISTEMAS Y CONTROL DEL MEDITERRANEO SL Spain EU contribution € 229 063,00 Address Av reina sofia 63 30833 Sang verde murcia See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Juan Celdran (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data 5M SRO Czechia EU contribution € 329 367,00 Address Na zahonech 1177 686 04 Kunovice See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Richard Pavlica (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 23 967,00 Address Pegasus house, aerospace avenue, filton BS34 7PA Bristol See on map Region South West (England) Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Philippa Rowe (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data THE UK MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 9 485,00 Address Middle aston house OX25 5PT Oxfordshire See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Richard Baker (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE ARAGON Spain EU contribution € 4 125,00 Address Maria de luna 8 50018 Zaragoza See on map Region Noreste Aragón Zaragoza Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact José-Ramón Valdés (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
