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project info
Start date: 1 October 2016
End date: 30 September 2020
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 2 369 420,32 €
EU contribution: 1 303 181,15 € (55%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Wallonie (Wallonie-Bruxelles International)
intervention field
n/a
beneficiary

Thermoplastic elastomers, from the more conventional to those of the second generation

Thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) are advanced materials with high potential. Their optimal use as raw material or additive in the processing industry, however, requires significant expertise. In addition to the fact that new types of thermoplastic elastomers with interesting and innovative features remain to be developed, universities and technical centres in the cross-border region play a crucial role in this development. It has been found that companies have little knowledge of the large elastomer family, nor do they realise that these materials can make a significant contribution, particularly as additives, to improving the properties and processability of many products. Furthermore, companies are not aware of the available technologies that can be used in the design of these new products. The aim of this project is, therefore, to familiarise companies with the immense possibilities offered by thermoplastic elastomers, with the aim of improving the performance and processing of conventional polymers by increasing knowledge of the relationships between the morphology, transformation and the properties of materials based on thermoplastic elastomers, and to bring this unique technology to companies in the cross-border region so that they can fully benefit from it.

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