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Waste-Based Rapid Adhesive-free Production of Sports goods

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Objective

Sport Infinity aims to identify and develop innovative partly waste-based long-fibre reinforced composites enabling the automatic production of easily customisable plastic sports goods. The project will focus on the production of balls and shoes and will adopt a design-driven approach exploiting the automation potential of rotation moulding processes, which offer significant design freedom. The innovation potential of the moulding processes to be employed originates from their capacity of bonding together a multitude of different materials, while effecting external product shaping without using glue and/or other adhesives. The starting point is the development of composite materials superimposed in the form of layers in variable ways according to the targeted (custom) shape and the required properties. The insertion of decorative elements in the mould will enable design custom designs, along with 3D printing. An end-to-end collaborative design innovation will be adopted. The Sport Infinity consortium gathers expertise across the value chain from design to material development, production, marketing and distribution and across multiple disciplines industrial design, material science, recycling and industrial processes. The new flexible automatic production, can set a paradigm of competitive production Made in Europe favouring ranging from modular factories to in-store production cells.

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.2.1.3.5. - Materials for creative industries, including heritage

H2020-EU.2.1.3.4. - Materials for a sustainable, resource-efficient and low-emission industry

Topic(s)

NMP-18-2014 - Materials solutions for use in the creative industry sector

Call for proposal

H2020-NMP-2014-two-stage

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Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

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Coordinator

ADIDAS AG

Address

Adi Dassler Strasse 1
91074 Herzogenaurach

Germany

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

EU Contribution

€ 1 884 389

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BASF SE

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 599 340

KISKA GMBH

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 723 800

FILL GESELLSCHAFT MBH

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 932 687

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN NUERNBERG

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 1 206 637

OECHSLER AG

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 715 855

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 811 710

ASSOCIATION CETI (CENTRE EUROPEEN DES TEXTILES INNOVANTS)

France

EU Contribution

€ 334 937

HYPERCLIQ IKE

Greece

EU Contribution

€ 459 567

SPORTSMETHOD LIMITED

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 102 025

Project information

Sport Infinity

Grant agreement ID: 645987

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 June 2015
End date

31 May 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.3.5.

H2020-EU.2.1.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 10 092 806
EU contribution

€ 7 770 947

Coordinated by:

ADIDAS AG

Germany

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Sport Infinity (Waste-Based Rapid Adhesive-free Production of Sports goods)

Reporting period: 2015-06-01 to 2016-11-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The core objective of the Sport Infinity consortium is to identify and develop innovative compounds and composites utilising material recycling concepts which will enable the automatic production of easily configurable plastic sport goods making use of highly efficient and sustainable forming processes.

Shin guards, balls and shoes have been selected as pilot products for the development and the sequence and order of the demonstrators planned to increase in complexity as the project progresses.

The project will focus on the production of different plastic sports goods and will adopt a design-driven approach exploiting, among other techniques, the automation potential of rotation moulding processes, which offer significant design freedom, as well as the possibility of bonding together a multitude of different materials, while effecting external product shaping without using glue and/or other adhesives.

The main S&T objectives of the projects are:

• The identification, selection and processing of appropriate materials (virgin or recycled), enabling the achievement of semi-automated and sustainable production.
• The design and development of innovative semi-automatic production processes, enabling local production of customisable sports goods, focusing on shoes and footballs
• Definition and development of an integrated design approach, based on effective knowledge management and including user-involvement in the configuration of custom products and the exploitation of open innovation principles focusing on design.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

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Project information

Sport Infinity

Grant agreement ID: 645987

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 June 2015
End date

31 May 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.3.5.

H2020-EU.2.1.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 10 092 806
EU contribution

€ 7 770 947

Coordinated by:

ADIDAS AG

Project information

Sport Infinity

Grant agreement ID: 645987

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 June 2015
End date

31 May 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.3.5.

H2020-EU.2.1.3.4.

Overall budget:

€ 10 092 806
EU contribution

€ 7 770 947

Coordinated by:

ADIDAS AG

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Record number: 196837

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