COMPOSITES
Energy, cost saving and recycling win prizes at JEC Composites Show 2001 / 19,000 visitors
Energy and cost saving along with using recycled materials were the themes that most appealed to the jury selecting winners of this year´s JEC awards in five major sectors of the composites industry presented in Paris at the “JEC Composites Show 2001”. Organised by JEC SA (F-75008 Paris; www.globalcomposites.com), the event attracted nearly 19,000 visitors. For the first time, a significant number of Latin American companies attended. Prize winners came from the Netherlands, the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland and Canada. The 2002 JEC Composites Show will be held from 8-10 April at Parc des Exposition Paris Porte de Versailles (Paris).
The air transport award won by Ten Cate of the Netherlands with partners British Aerospace Airbus, Fokker Special Products and EADS Airbus France was for a wing leading edge for the Airbus A 340-600 produced from Ten Cate´s new “Cetex” PPS thermoplastic matrix and continuous fibre composite. A German grouping of Polymer Chemie, DaimlerChrysler Research, Deutsche Modell und Formenbau, Saertex Wagner, Dieffenbacher and Vetrotex under the leadership of the Fraunhofer ICT research group won the land and sea transport category for a passenger footrest for the Smart car in a sandwich structure made of PP reinforced with glass fibre skins and a thermoplastic composite core.
Canada´s Fre Composites won the civil engineering and infrastructure award for a pipe made of composite materials used to transport electricity to a water pumping station. Developed in cooperation with Vetrotex America and Ciba Geigy, the duct protects high-voltage electric cables routed across a lake. The industry and process award went to Roctool and Schappe Techniques of France, with partner EMS Chemie, for a quick and unique process to produce carbon composites within one or two minutes from preform to finished part.
Winner in the health and leisure category was the Swiss-led Icotec grouping, including ETH Zurich, Faigle Kunststoffe, SFS, Saint Gallen Cantonal Hospital, Dyne Design Engineering, Alfatec and Remco International for bone surgery screws of new long fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite material.
The air transport award won by Ten Cate of the Netherlands with partners British Aerospace Airbus, Fokker Special Products and EADS Airbus France was for a wing leading edge for the Airbus A 340-600 produced from Ten Cate´s new “Cetex” PPS thermoplastic matrix and continuous fibre composite. A German grouping of Polymer Chemie, DaimlerChrysler Research, Deutsche Modell und Formenbau, Saertex Wagner, Dieffenbacher and Vetrotex under the leadership of the Fraunhofer ICT research group won the land and sea transport category for a passenger footrest for the Smart car in a sandwich structure made of PP reinforced with glass fibre skins and a thermoplastic composite core.
Canada´s Fre Composites won the civil engineering and infrastructure award for a pipe made of composite materials used to transport electricity to a water pumping station. Developed in cooperation with Vetrotex America and Ciba Geigy, the duct protects high-voltage electric cables routed across a lake. The industry and process award went to Roctool and Schappe Techniques of France, with partner EMS Chemie, for a quick and unique process to produce carbon composites within one or two minutes from preform to finished part.
Winner in the health and leisure category was the Swiss-led Icotec grouping, including ETH Zurich, Faigle Kunststoffe, SFS, Saint Gallen Cantonal Hospital, Dyne Design Engineering, Alfatec and Remco International for bone surgery screws of new long fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite material.
24.05.2001 Plasteurope.com [16704]
Published on 24.05.2001