The customer
Innovative Recycling, a Swiss company with a commitment to zero-waste manufacturing, revalues dry, uncured, and cured carbon fiber used in other processes and employs it as raw material to produce new semi-finished composite products.
The challenge
The customer wanted to develop a new production process capable of realizing a recycled composite material sheet with high mechanical features suitable for various applications.
Our supply
- Unwinding and stacking line
- Press
- Mold
- E-System dosing units
- Two mixing heads: RTM and Wet Compression Molding
- Degassing and conditioning system
- Deposition robot
Solution advantages
Through targeted tests carried out in our laboratory, and thanks to the support of our specialists, we have developed a tailor-made process precisely for this sheet. Non-woven fabric is cut into 1m2 sheets, impregnated with resin through wet compression molding (WCM) technology in a dedicated station, put on other sheets equally impregnated to form a mat, and then pressed into a hot mold in a 750-ton press.
This plant, which incorporates HP-RTM capabilities, was conceived to guarantee maximum production flexibility. Different products can be made with secondary processing, including prostheses, buckles, sports equipment, and automotive components.