ACTIVE & INTELLIGENT PACKAGING MATERIALS AND DISPLAY CASES AS A TOOL FOR PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE Most Cultural Heritage objects housed by museums are often stored under unsuitable climate conditions. APACHE will develop a cutting edge technology to control and prevent the degradation of such patrimony....
Osteoporosis (“porous bone”) is a very common bone disease, it is more frequent after menopause and with aging but it can occur also at younger age. It occurs when the body loses too much bone, as a result bones become weak and brittle - so...
ELEVATED CONCENTRATION PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR ENERGY GENERATOR AND FULLY AUTOMATED MACHINERY FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT MANUFACTURING AND TESTING Today most of HCPV (High Concentration PhotoVoltaic) generators are built with refractive lenses. A few companies have developed efficient solutions and set up manufacturing lines for these kind of products,...
DEVELOPING POWDER COATINGS FOR CONTACT CURING OFSTRUCTURAL ADHESIVES FOR VEHICLE BONDING APPLICATIONS Adhesive bonding technologies are a substitute for joining processes such as welding which offer vehicle designers the potential to select from a wider range of lightweight materials for vehicle design and construction. The ability...
MEDITERRANEAN NETWORK OF FORESTRY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION The Mediterranean region will become one of the most vulnerable areas in Europe to global change. While in European Mediterranean countries the combination of climate change and land abandonment is promoting new unmanaged forest cover, increasing fire and pest...
HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADVANCED PROCESSING OF CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES AND GRAPHITE EXPANSION Lightweight ceramics and fibre reinforced ceramic composites, such as non-oxide Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) and Expanded Graphite (EG), represent very promising solutions for high temperature applications in strategic industrial sectors, such as transport...
LARGE SCALE DEMONSTRATION OF SUBSTITUTION OF BATTERY ELECTRIC FORKLIFTS BY HYDROGEN FUEL CELL FORKLIFTS IN LOGISTICS WAREHOUSES HAWL project aims at demonstrating competitiveness, technical maturity and user acceptance of hydrogen fuel cell powered forklift trucks fleets in a logistics warehouse environment in Europe, as an alternative...
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE MATERIAL ASSOCIATED TO A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ENERGETIC, FLEXIBLE, ECONOMICAL, VERSATILE AND ECOLOGICAL PROCESS TO MAKE SUPER STRONG AND LIGHTWEIGHT COMPONENTS The general objective of EFEVE project is the improvement of the new technologies to manufacturing of materials (aluminum and magnesium...
PREFABRICATED AEROGEL BASED PANEL WITH SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE FOR BUILDING INSULATION Today, the construction sector is the highest energy consumer in the EU (about 40%) and main contributor to GHG emissions (about 36% of the EU’s CO2 emissions). Thermal insulation materials are most important contributors to the...
ACTIVE PACKAGING SOLUTION FOR MORE NATURAL COSMETICS PRODUCTS Paraben preservatives are used nowadays in a high number of cosmetic packaging products. These preservatives are included in European legislation as components to be reduced in the future. In order to substitute the use of parabens, ACTICOSPACK will...
