HELACS, at the Plastic Recycling Show Europe

This year, the HELACS project has been present at the stand of Aitiip Centro Tecnológico, during its participation in PRSE 2022, the Plastic Recycling Show Europe.

The Aitiip team showed a video of the HELACS project, as well as the project brochure, which was sold out. PRSE 2022 is one of the most important exhibitions on the continent, which brings together the most important companies in the recycling sector and associated technology industries.

Aeronautic Recycling

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  • For aircrafts that are no longer in service, the owner considers the trade-off between direct resale and disassemble & recycled. Besides that, HELACS project (Holistic processes for the cost-effective and sustainable management of End of Life of Aircraft Composite Structures) is focused on the study of the second one of these options.

  • AITIIP Technology Centre leads HELACS, a European project which aims to develop a dual methodology of controlled comprehensive dismantling in order to make possible the classification, recycling and reuse of aircraft parts made of thermoset and thermoplastic composites that have reached their end of life. Annually, the aeronautical industry is depositing more than 40,000 tons of end-of-life composite material waste in landfills. Thanks to the recovery of materials, the technology proposed by HELACS will benefit the change towards an energy efficiency model.

  • Induction heating is a fast method to heat metals or other electrically conductive material. It is also effective to weld fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites.
This project has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 101007871
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