Innovative Recycling maintains production flexibility with a turnkey plant for composites
Innovative Recycling wanted a plant that could incorporate WCM and HP-RTM capabilities, and we provided it.
The client
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 a raw material to produce new semi-finished composite products.
The challenge
The customer wanted to develop a new production process for realizing a recycled composite sheet with high mechanical features that could be used for various applications
Our solution
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 sheets of 1 square meter, impregnated with resin through wet compression molding (WCM) technology at 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.
Our supply
- E-System dosing unit
- Two mixing heads: RTM and Wet Compression Molding
- Degassing and conditioning system
- Unwinding and stacking line
- Deposition robot
- Press
- Mold
