CIRCULARTP

The CIRCULARTP project aims at developing cost effective lightweighting materials and technologies that will allow the European Automobile manufacturers to introduce lightweighting solutions in existing plants in the short to midterm. The main objectives of the project are to scaleup the production of thermoplastics reinforced with continuous carbon or glass fibre, and to develop production tools and processes that will allow the combination of very thin steel sheets with such thermoplastic composites. This approach shall lead to metal/hybrid composites with expected weight gains of 30% compared to pure steel while allowing a fast implementation in the existing car manufacturing processes. At the same time, this technology shall help to reduce the production waste by as much as 90% compared to current thermoset or organosheet composite solutions. Compared to the classical organosheet approach for thermoplastic composites, the CIRCULARTP technology allows increasing material performance..

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