Motivations

The TECNOLIGHT project grew out of the current needs of industries using composite materials. This family of materials is indispensable in numerous industries such as transport, renewable energies, sports, construction, nautical, aeronautical, etc. The virtues that allow composites to compete with other traditional materials are their low weight, strength and their design adaptability for each target application. However, composite materials have certain disadvantages, the most notable of which is their poor sustainability and their practically non-existent recyclability. The difficulty in processing and reusing the materials once they reach the end of their useful life is due to the multicomposition (cores, fabrics and resins) and the thermostable nature of the resin, which that prevents them from being processed by temperature, unlike thermoplastic materials.

This is the background to the TECNOLIGHT project, which seeks to provide solutions to the problems identified in the field of composites and transfer the knowledge generated to companies in the Valencian Community.