Starting today, the Eurecat technology centre is exhibiting at JEC World, the leading event in the composite field, held in Paris, where it will present its trials in manufacturing with Compositrònica for the development of functional composite materials by combining various manufacturing procedures, flexible printed electronics and the insertion of components, which bring new benefits in terms of lightness and the cheapening of industrial assembly.
According to María Eugenia Rodríguez, the director of Eurecat’s Composite Materials Unit, Compositrònica ‘is the perfect combination for the development of functional light structures’. In other words, ‘thanks to the lightness of the composites and the printed electronics, it’s possible to significantly reduce the weight of components and large structures, as well as to reduce costs in assembly processes with the introduction of sensors during the manufacture of the composite’.
The various processes ‘are carried out at the Eurecat facilities, at the plastronics pilot plant and in the technology centre’s Composite Materials Unit laboratories’, adds Rodríguez.
R&D in composites for sustainability and weight reduction
As part of the fair, Eurecat is also exhibiting the latest developments in composites in the field of sustainability and the circular economy, weight reduction and Industry 4.0, for industries such as aerospace, automotive, construction and sport, among others.
They are also highlighting innovations where new composites have been developed from recycled carbon fibre and other types of composite waste.
