Spain. The Technical Institute of Plastics, Aimplas, reported the participation in the Pyros 2 project, coordinated by Aitex, to develop new sustainable and highly fire-resistant composite materials for incorporation into public transport and the construction sector.
In recent years, the composites industry has grown rapidly as a result of the manufacture of high-strength fibers, development of new polymeric materials and improvement of existing manufacturing processes. This rapid increase in the production of these innovative materials has been driven mainly by demand from the aeronautics, aerospace, automotive-transport and construction industries, in which case they have proven to be materials with superior performance to those of conventional materials in many of their final applications.
The main objective of the Pyros 2 project is the research and development of new sustainable composite materials through the use of raw materials of renewable origin both in the polymer matrix of the composite and in the textile reinforcement structure, which also present high resistance to fire thanks to the incorporation of additives in the matrix and fireproof finishing processes for the reinforcement of the textile sector.
The main application of these new materials will take place in the public transport and construction sectors. To this end, the project has planned the pilot scale manufacture of demonstrators from the sustainable composite materials developed applicable to these sectors.
The possibility of manufacturing parts with sustainable composite materials is associated with a wide and difficult task of research, development and validation that Aimplas and Aitex address as a technological challenge with possibilities of obtaining good results that can be transferred directly to the industry.
Source: Aimplas.
