AIMPLAS - Technological Institute of Plastics

SPAIN
Website: www.aimplas.es

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AIMPLAS (Technological Institute of Plastics) is an Innovation and Technology Centre (CIT). Created in 1990, in Comunidad Valenciana (Spain) as a national managerial association; AIMPLAS conducts research within the plastics transformation sector in order to increase the competitiveness of the plastics industry and related sectors. AIMPLAS has currently almost 400 associated companies.

It has been promoter as well as coordinator of various networks of scientific and technological networks within geographical fields that mean unquestionable interest for the plastic industry, such as Euro-VIPP, EU-ROPLAS, IBERO-CIT, SusCompNet.

The researches that AIMPLAS is carrying out nowadays are mainly focused on the following fields:

• Biodegradable polymers and sustainable composites
• Nanotechnology applied to the polymeric materials industries
• Composites for the building sector
• New processes for the transformation of thermo-set plastics

Furthermore, AIMPLAS is developing some other fields such as:

• Polymers and additivesDevelopment / alteration of polymeric materials
• Characterization of polymeric materials
• Technologies on the processing of polymeric materials
• Development of new products made with plastic
• Plastics recycling

All this R&D work is performed under the framework of regional, national and European projects and a few International projects with North and South America. In fact, AIMPLAS has developed a vast experience in the participation and coordination of European projects since 1999.

AIMPLAS also offers technological services such as Quality and environmental management, R+D Projects, Training, Communication and Information, Technical Information and Documentation. AIMPLAS also offers accredited testing for the plastic industry.

Reduced Energy Consumption in Plastics Engineering (RECIPE)

ENER-Plast: Instruments for reducing the Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions of the polymer industry and supply chain