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Making Thermoplastic Composites
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Newsletter - July 2022
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Enjoy reading TPAC's news on thermoplastic composites research and development from your mailbox!
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We are hiring!
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TPAC is looking for a Composite Engineer / PhD candidate
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We are looking for a new Composites Engineer/ PhD candidate.
Are you:
- Motivated to do a PhD study while managing your own industrial research project;
- A team player;
- A result-driven, pragmatic academic;
- And open for innovation?
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Funding RAAK-PRO project approved by Regieorgaan SIA
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On 16 May 2022 TPAC received the formal approval for the RAAKPRO project “New Generation Stiffened Thermoplastic Composite Products” from RegieOrgaan SIA. The project has a lead time of 4 years and will start per 1 July 2022. On the 30th of June a pre-kick-off meeting was organized at TPAC together with the consortium partners. ...
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TPAC makes first garment out of river plastics
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River plastic that has been recovered from the river IJssel in Zwolle, processed in Enschede and to be sold in the clothing store in Zuthpen. If all goes well, that dream will become reality in 2023. Saxion and partners succeeded in going through the entire process “from PET bottle to blouse”. A world’s first, says Rik Voerman.
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“A few parts of this process have already been investigated on a technical scale, but we have now been the first ones to realize the entire process, to prove that it is possible,” according to Rik Voerman of the Saxion research group in Lightweight Structures.
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“From fishing PET bottles from the river near Zwolle, to making a garment. We now have a grip on the entire process for the first time. Not only from the technical viewpoint, but also when it comes to financial feasibility.” Making clothing from thin-walled plastics (which also include PET bottles) is one of three sub-projects of the Post-use Plastic Foil Solutions project that started in mid-2021. In this research project, Saxion is working with regional companies to further optimize the separation, cleaning and reuse of thin-walled plastics, both technically and commercially, with the aim of recycling “difficult-to-recycle-plastics” cost-effectively ...
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GKN Fokker presents at ECCM 2022
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GKN Fokker's Johan Meuzelaar presented a joined research project, conducted by TPAC and GKN, at ECCM 2022. This research follows up on the previous TPC-Cycle project, where a novel recycling route was developed.
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In the current research the possibilities of recycling aerospace production waste into aerospace parts was further explored, focusing on the feasibility and validation of the developed technology in a series production and in-service environment.
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Graduation internship at TPAC
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Fourth-year mechatronics ROC students Lars van der Heijden and Luuk van den Berg graduating and ending their assignment at Saxion’s TPAC (Enschede). Luuk van den Berg and Lars van der Heijden finished their assignment at TPAC and graduated ...
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TPAC presents at SAMPE US 2022
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TPAC presented two technical papers at SAMPE US 2022.
Marco del Vecchio presented ‘Processing and characterization of recycled carbon-fiber polycarbonate composites. He talked about the processing methods of recycling of carbon fiber polycarbonate production waste, resulting in competitive mechanical properties.
Would you like to know more about recycling, please visit:
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Ilse ten Bruggencate presented ‘Upcycling waste plastics for high-value continuous fibre reinforced composites applications’. She talked about the recycling of Polypropylene, Polyethylene and Polyester waste streams, into fibre reinforced continuous tape. This project resulted in a first-time 100% recycled plastic overmoulded TPC demonstrator, with the addition of tailor-made continuous fibre reinforcements on load-bearing locations.
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Rightweight meeting
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End of June the project partners have joined at Flanders Make offices in Leuven to discuss the current status and the next steps in the project to continue all the great innovative work with the SMEs. We are looking forward to the next months in RIGHTWEIGHT!
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