r-LightBioCom

New lightweight, high-performance composite materials and technologies help to protect the environment and improve the performance of many technical applications. Currently, sustainable high-performance composite materials cannot be used everywhere because some of them are expensive and difficult to process, and they can only be reused to a limited extent in material cycles. The r-LightBioCom project is breaking new ground in the production and recycling of high-performance plastics. This will enable these plastics to be produced in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way. In addition, new ways are being created to reduce both high-performance plastic waste and the use of fossil resources, in line with the environmental goals of the European Union.

In the r-LightBioCom project, IVW is developing curing processes for new bio-based high-performance polymers/resins and prepregs that can be stored at room temperature. In addition, processes are being developed and scaled up to disperse new fillers and resins using inline monitoring techniques to increase efficiency, process and quality control. Furthermore, recycling processes for composite components are being developed and fields of application for the recovered fibers, fillers and matrix are being researched, with the aim of reusing them in particular in the original resin formulations.