Objective
The proposed project aims to the development of an ecological and innovative coating for composite parts which may be able to eliminate the styrene emissions from the workplace. Additionally, this type of coating will deliver improved production perfomance in terms of quality and dramatic reduction of associated operational costs which currently burden the progress of composite materials worldwide.
Very much like the painting industry changed in the 1950’s to the use of dry powders in order to replace existing liquid paints; the liquid gel coats used in the composites industry may be replaced likewise with a proper dry powder technology. This project is meant to prove this fact as well as providing the tools to implement this novel material into a real production of composite parts.
The combination of new developments in efficiently heated tools, mould design and reinforced preforms with this ecological coating will provide an excellent platform to modernizing current composites manufacturing technologies.
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Call for proposal
FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF(RTD)
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Funding Scheme
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project
Coordinator
46980 Paterna Valencia
Spain
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Participants (14)
20146 Milano
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PL12 6AY Saltash
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2370 Arendonk
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NN29 7RG Wollaston Northamptonshire
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S41 9QG Chesterfield
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L-4940 Bascharage
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33615 Bielefeld
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46003 Valencia
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67100 Kokkola
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20014 San Sebastian
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191 00 Megara
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46469 Beniparrell
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44139 Dortmund