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Making Thermoplastic Composites
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Newsletter - December 2022
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From TPAC for under your Christmas tree: enjoy reading TPAC's news on thermoplastic composites research and development from your mailbox!
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In addition, you can always follow the latest of TPAC on:
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RIGHTWEIGHT webinar
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“Lightweight Opportunities for Thermoplastic Composites"
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On 24th November, TPAC organised the webinar “Lightweight Opportunities for Thermoplastic Composites”, as an educational activity that falls within the WP2 of the Righweight Interreg North Western Europe, a project which goal is to intensify the cooperation between the automotive and the aerospace sectors for reaching environmental and affordability targets. Thermoplastic Composites offer great opportunities for large series manufacturing of …
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Agile and drive system development - how do they fit together? Learn how in our upcoming webinar: "Opportunities for agile systems development through ASD – Agile Systems Design.
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Circular Thermoplastic Composite Production
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In the project "CTCP - Circular Thermoplastic Composite Production", 6 SMEs and 2 Universities of Applied Sciences carried out R&D on the circularity of thermoplastic composites. The project, financed by Regieorgaan SIA, part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) through a RAAK-MKB subsidy, was successfully completed earlier this year. The following goals were achieved: New material combinations were …
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Fibre reinforced extrusion
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In the Post-Use Plastic Foil solutions project we develop low-cost techniques to reprocess thin-walled waste plastics from local waste sources into products. Heavily polluted plastics, such as post-consumer packaging, often have lower mechanical properties, as separating and cleaning of the various plastics involved is difficult and expensive. One option is to reinforce the material with glass fibres …
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TPAC presents
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On 17th November, our colleague Ferrie van Hattum presented at the AZL GmbH Hybrid Thermoplastic Composites Workgroup Meeting in Aachen, Germany, on TPAC’s progress on recycling of thermoplastic composites and biobased thermoplastic composites. In the meetings, professionals from research and industry meet, present and discuss their latest developments. Earlier, on 7th October, TPAC was also invited to present at …
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TPAC laboratory expansion
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TPAC is growing and, therefore, our laboratory space will be expanded with an additional 290 square meters of floor space. This will allow TPAC to move its labscale- and test-equipment to the new lab space, reserving the current lab space for industrial equipment, allowing for trials closer to industrial reality. This expansion will also allow the industrial lab to be …
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In the past months, TPAC has worked closely together with CIM Fieldlab, Brink Climate Systems and Hogeschool Saxion students looking into the possibilities of recycling Brink's air filters as part of creating a circular business model.
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Student works on Polycarbonate recycling
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The student Ivar Stokvisch from the Saxion course on Sustainable Chemistry, has worked at TPACs labs on recycling methods for Polycarbonate (PC), supplied by Falco B.V., a company in Vriezenveen that produces outdoor furniture such as bicycle shelters. He looked into the chemical and mechanical recycling, aiming at creating a loop for this stream and starting a second life cycle, …
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