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Arburg, Aimplas partner to test materials for additive manufacturing

Iranpolymer/Baspar Arburg and Aimplas, the Spanish Plastics Technology Centre, are partnering to qualify new materials for use in additive manufacturing for medical applications. Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, has a lot of potential in the medical field. It…

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The REWIND project: Dismantling end-of-life wind turbine blades to improve circularity

Iranpolymer/Baspar Today, roughly 2.5 million tonnes of composite materials are used in wind turbines globally. Approximately 350 Ktonnes of end-of-life (EoL) wind turbine blades will be decommissioned in Europe by 2030. However, recycling composite materials remains challenging and the circularity of wind turbine blades is currently…

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Raise a glass: Aimplas producing bioplastics from beer production waste

Iranpolymer/Baspar   Valencia-based Aimplas, the Spanish Plastics Technology Centre, is coordinating a project for the development of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)-based packaging solutions derived from beer production waste. Called BioSupPack, the research programme also focusses on demonstrating a feasible depolymerisation recycling process for the…

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AIMPLAS turns poultry feather waste into sustainable foams

Iranpolymer/Baspar  AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is working on the development of new foams made with poultry feathers for sustainable hydroponic crop systems within the framework of UNLOCK, an initiative funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Fourteen partners from seven European countries are working on this project, which is coordinated by…

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