Objective
This project is concerned with fluoropolymer coated rollers and drying cylinders such as those used for the production of paper, paper products and textiles. Fluoropolymer coatings are essential in these industries due to their excellent non stick, low friction properties which allow the production rollers to operate at high speeds without creating friction or contamination of the final product due to sticking of production materials such as size and other additives. The aim of the project is to effect cost savings in the paper, paper products and textile industries through the development of an improved coating for production plant rollers. The project will develop an advanced roller coating with improved wear resistance to better withstand the aggressive treatment meted out in the production environment. This new coating material will be based on a composite material of fluoropolymer and chrome metal and is estimated to increase the lifetime of current fluoropolymer roller coatings tenfold from approximately 1 year to 10 years. The utilisation of this new technology in paper and textile plants across Europe will bring a number of economic benefits. The replacement of fluoropolymer roller coatings in situ will vastly improve the efficiency and reduce the production costs in these industries, where the replacement of roller coatings currently causes a hug amount of lost production time. The economic impact of the introduction of this new technology has been estimated at over 90MECU pre annum. Environmental and social benefits will also arise from the implementation of this new technology. There will be a reduced need for transportation of the rollers to and from a coating site and safety benefits will result from the reduction of the need to remove these large, often contaminated rollers from their production line positions. To achieve these technical and economic objectives a research partnership has been formed comprising industrialists and developers. The consortium contains 6 SMEs, manufacturers, developers and end users, together with large and small research institutes to provide the essential research and development expertise and facilities. The consortium is therefore capable of providing the highest level of research expertise, end user and industrial elements and exploitation capability.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringwoodworking
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20053 MUGGIO
Italy