Objective PolyBright will develop high power high brilliance lasers with new wavelengths between 1500 and 1900 nm which are adapted to the absorption properties of polymers. With innovative beam manipulation systems for optimum adaption of energy, the project will provide high speed and flexible laser manufacturing technology to expand the limits of current plastic part assembly. Key innovations of the PolyBright project are high brilliance mid-IR-wavelength fibre and diode lasers with powers up to 500 W, high speed scanning and flexible beam manipulation systems, such as dynamic masks and multi kHz scanning heads. New laser polymer joining processes for optimized thermal management in combination with wavelength adapted polymers and additives will provide higher quality, high processing speed up to 1 m/s and robust manufacturing processes at lower costs. Compact lasers with very high beam quality and free form beam shaping will enable reconfigurable assembly machines, offering high productivity with sub second cycle times and unique flexibility for varying joining geometries. The project covers the whole process chain for laser based plastic part assembly and includes laser companies, optics suppliers, material and processing specialists as well as machine suppliers. The developed machine equipment and the new laser process approaches will be validated by end users from medical, consumer good, automotive and watch industry. With this initial step, PolyBright will break new paths in processing of advanced plastic products overcoming the quality and speed limitations of conventional plastic part assembly. PolyBright will thus open new markets for laser systems with a short term potential of over several 100 laser installations per year and a future much larger market share in a multi billion plastic market. PolyBright will hence establish a comprehensive and sustainable development activity on new high brilliance lasers that will strengthen the EU's laser system industry. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringnatural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciencessocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitynatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometrynatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics Programme(s) FP7-NMP - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies Topic(s) NMP-2008-4.0-4 - Expanding the limits of advanced materials processing applications through a new generation of high brilliance lasers Call for proposal FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-IP - Large-scale integrating project Coordinator FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV EU contribution € 1 536 017,00 Address HANSASTRASSE 27C 80686 Munchen Germany See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Walter Krause (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (17) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS France EU contribution € 345 802,00 Address BOULEVARD SAINT MICHEL 60 75272 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Arnaud Helleux (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LEISTER PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES* Switzerland EU contribution € 304 728,00 Address GALILEO-STRASSE 10 6056 KAGISWIL See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ulrich Gubler (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Treffert GmbH & Co.KG 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