Composite Materials
The Composite Materials Unit at Eurecat strives to improve compounding technologies and continuous strengthening techniques.
Experience
Development
Development of lightweight pieces of high mechanical performance with advanced manufacturing technologies.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing of thermoplastic compounds with high added value through extrusion and compounding.
Services
Extrusion – Compounding
Advanced Composite Manufacturing
Most representative sectors
Clients
Key projects
PIDaaS
Innovative service for identity management based on biometric recognition technologies (digital fingerprint scanner, voice recognition and facial recognition) through mobile devices.
Optinanopro
New technology for the dispersion of additives and nanoadditives within plastic for an improvement of mechanical performance, barrier properties and weight reduction.
Hypermembrane
Product completely industrialised and standarised for the construction of light architectural structures that need to reproduce complex geometrie.
Composite Materials Team
Mª Eugenia Rodríguez
Director of the Composite Materials Unit at Eurecat
María Eugenia Rodríguez graduated in chemical engineering from the University of the Basque Country (UPV) and holds a postgraduate certificate in “Plastic and rubber injection moulds and technology” from Lea-Artibai. She has over 15 years’ experience in the plastic and composite industry in the private sector.
For over 10 years, she has directed high-level Spanish and European R&D projects, in which she has been responsible for the design, planning, coordination and technical execution of projects and technological services. She has also collaborated with universities and other training centres as a lecturer to teach about themes relating to plastics and composites. She is also the director of postgraduate course “Composites: Structural design, materials and processes”, which has been running at Eurecat for 5 years.
