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First year mechanical engineering students were introduced to injection molding during their practical for ‘non-ferro materials and production’. This class is part of the newly developed mechanical engineering curriculum. Here students look at the entire process of injection molding. This included theory about designing injection molding parts, molds, simulations of the actual injection [...]
Rightweight Summary Recently the TPAC acquired a new three year project in which the thermoplastic composite knowledge of aerospace industry is exchanged with the automation knowledge of the automotive sector. The Interreg project, called ‘Rightweight’ will focus on knowledge transfer to companies who want to develop TPC technology in their production organisation. Typically, [...]
Marco Del Vecchio and Ilse ten Bruggencate presented their research work during SAMPE Europe 2021, a conference for materials and process engineering, which was held from 28-30 September. Marco Del Vecchio presented his scientific paper entitled Use of construction waste in wood fibre composites in the session “sustainability & recycling”. Marco has [...]
The Dutch Association of Universities of Applied Sciences recently published its new Strategic Research Agenda for Universities of Applied Sciences 2022-2025. The agenda outlines how UASs can further boost the impact of applied research in the years to come. In the agenda, TPAC features as an example of a center for applied research [...]
Recycling of thermoplastics is an important research area of TPAC. Within the Programme Fieldlab Circulaire Innovaties in de Maakindustrie this year three projects were started, for three totally different working fields: 1) Circular Insulating Sandwich Panels for the Building Industry Here, TPAC uses scrap panels and its cutting waste, grinds it [...]
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 [...]
rTPC Demonstrators Research into the use of recycled Thermoplastic composite materials in practice Summary In the RAAK PRO project 'TPC-Cycle - Sustainable Reuse of Thermoplastic Composite materials', two PhD students investigated processes to recycle thermoplastic composites. In particular, post-production materials from the high-end industry (aerospace) proved to be reprocessable into new product forms, [...]
Auteur: Jos Eertink Photography: Thomas Busschers Date: 4 July 2022 Source: Saxion News At Saxion’s Lightweight Structures research group (better known as TPAC- ThermoPlastic composites Application Center), flax fibres form the basis for sustainable sheet material, and composite [...]
PLA-PLA Single Polymer Composite Summary Arapaha is a design firm that focuses on consumer products where circularity is key. Recently, new materials have entered the market that have the potential to be easily recycled. These are composites based on strong PLA fibres in a PLA matrix. These materials come in the form of [...]
Soort opdracht Stageopdracht Organisatie: TPAC Contactpersoon: Bert Weteringe Email contactpersoon: b.j.weteringe@saxion.nl Studierichtingen: Werktuigbouwkunde niveau MBO/HBO TPAC richt zich op het ontwikkelen van kosten efficiënte technologieën voor de verwerking van vezel versterkte thermoplastische kunststoffen. Thermoplasten kenmerken zich doordat ze, eenmaal in gesmolten toestand, gevormd kunnen worden. Dit [...]
