Objective
The industrial objective of this project is to develop and apply closed mould reinforced plastics technology to SMEs within a range of market sectors covering the sanitary ware industry. This will give a range of benefits to the partners including lower cost, enhanced properties, greater design flexibility and improved manufacturing conditions over existing materials. These benefits are also expected to yield a 20% reduction in production costs, while maintaining product quality The approach to the development will follow two parallel routes, based on the surface finish and durability requirements of each SME partner. The first route will be based around a vacuum formed acrylic skin for the domestic bathroom market, while the second will use a polyester or acrylic coating for the commercial and kitchen sectors of the market. The needs of the SME end users will be supported by SME tooling suppliers, equipment manufacturers and materials suppliers within the project partnership, to ensure that the development runs smoothly and can be readily exploited. The technical objectives of the proposal relate to: -The development of closed mould reinforced plastic processing to allow the production of high quality parts for the sanitary ware market. The use of novel equipment and tooling technologies to access the 20% cost saving potential of the developed process. The development and application of simple, cost-effective tool clamping and manipulation systems, applicable to the flexible manufacturing requirements of the sanitary ware industry. -Enhancement of the developed process to ensure long term process stability and cost effectiveness. Application of a closed mould processing technology to the sanitary ware industry, through design, manufacture and testing of case study parts. This development work will give significant benefit to the core group of SMEs by allowing them to enhance and expand their markets in the manufacture and supply of products, within a range of domestic and commercial sanitary ware markets.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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Coordinator
91460 MARCOUSSIS
France
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