A.    ENTITY DESCRIPTION

AITIIP Technological Centre is a non-profit private entity which goal is to increase the competitiveness of the companies in the moulds and plastic parts manufacturing industry,  as well as to spread knowledge and to transfer the know-how to face new technological challenges. The technical office at AITIIP is composed by a Design Engineering team, with long experience in industrial processes, which has evolved to apply the latest technologies in the manufacturing actions, developing automated applications for advanced  manufacturing tasks incorporating CAD/CAM/CAE techniques including its prototype moulds and peripherics and developing new researches in these engineering fields Its R+D department has three strong research lines: composites and nanomaterials,  manufacturing processes (in collaboration with design engineering) and product  development. In cooperation between both departments AITIIP´s team pursues the  improvement of composites technologies and adaptation of novel material to  manufacturing processes. The R&D activity can be grouped into the following research
fields: 
- Advanced Composites: Thermoplastic and thermoset customized formulations (natural additives and reinforcements, nanomaterials [CNTnanotubes and graphene] and active components) for outperform formulations of biobased (PLA, PHA, PBS, bio-PE, etc.) and high performance (PAU, PAI, PEEK, PTFE,
PAEK, etc.) matrix.

- Manufacturing processes: Plastic transformation (injection moulding, blown extrusion moulding, casting, thermoforming, RTM, LRI, etc.), mechatronics, robotics and hybrid manufacturing (subtractive and additive) for metallic, ceramic, and plastic materials.

- Product development: Design, development,
validations and demonstration of new products and services based on Circular Economy
and Industry 4.0 approach.
 

B.    ROLE IN THE HERFUSE PROJECT 

Thermoforming of thermolastic composite materials, and their resistive welding, within the UPPER SHELL, corresponding to WP4 and WP8.