To reduce the carbon footprint of plastic products, Subproject 3 focuses on developing and evaluating new materials that offer superior environmental performance. This involves the creation of biobased and recyclable composites that meet stringent quality standards, enabling manufacturers to produce high-performance products with lower CO2 emissions.
Targets
Subproject 3 provide disruptive approaches to reduce the CO2eq footprint of polymers by:
- Develop and assess novel vitrimer / bio-mass derived epoxy resins in carbon fiber composites, and de-bondable adhesives; develop recovery routes for re-use of composite constituents
- Re-use of post-consumer/-industrial waste (e.g. food industry), re-processing into bio-based and biodegradable plastics
Research partners:
EPFL โ รcole Polytechnique Fรฉdรฉrale de Lausanne โ Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites
OST โ Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science โ IWK Institute for Materials Technology and Plastics Processing
OST โ Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science โ IMP Institute for Microtechnology and Photonics
HSG โ University of St.Gallen โ Institute of Technology Management (ITEM)
Implementation partners:
Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG
Composites Busch SA
Huntsman
Composite Recycling SA
