Industrial Area
Composite Materials
The Composite Materials Unit at Eurecat strives to improve compounding technologies and continuous strengthening techniques
At Eurecat we are experts in the development of lightweight pieces of high mechanical performance with advanced manufacturing technologies and manufacture of thermoplastic compounds with high added value through extrusion and compounding.
Services
Extrusion – Compounding
- Development of thermoplastic compounds adapted to the application.
- Manufacturing tests and trials.
- Characterisation of developed materials.
- Validation of compounds through various transformation processes: injection, profile extrusion, etc.
- Monofilament extrusion with different diameters according to requirements.
Advanced Composite Manufacturing
- Design and structural simulation of the composite piece for structural components.
- Tailor-made structural textiles and preforms: development of hybrid fibres and textiles, design and manufacturing of textile structures in accordance with geometry and application requirements.
- Design and manufacturing of forming tools, taking into account process technology.
- Manufacturing tests and trials with various technologies: hand lay-up, vacuum bag, RTM, press forming, HDF, autoclave and oven.
- Characterisation of compound materials and composite pieces.
Customers
Airbus
BBraun
Isovolta
Nurel
Carbures Group
Outstanding projects
Preventomics
Innovative service for identity management based on biometric recognition technologies (digital fingerprint scanner, voice recognition and facial recognition) through mobile devices.
Demoware
New technology for the dispersion of additives and nanoadditives within plastic for an improvement of mechanical performance, barrier properties and weight reduction.
Diamond
Product completely industrialised and standarised for the construction of light architectural structures that need to reproduce complex geometrie.
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.
