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.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-NMP-2014-two-stage
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
91074 Herzogenaurach
Germany
Participants (9)
67063 Ludwigshafen Am Rhein
5081 Anif
4942 Gurten
91054 Erlangen
91522 Ansbach
LS2 9JT Leeds
59200 Tourcoing
11525 Athina
KT10 9NW Esher