ICAMs experience Limited international connections Strong links with industry (2003) From Interreg...

ICAM’s experience

Limited international connections

Strong links with industry

(2003)

From Interreg to FP7 projectDeveloping a large scale environmental RTD project

involving SMEs

International RTD project

involving SMEs

(2007)

MNAA

EURECOMP

Contents

1 - ICAM

2 - MNAA – INTERREG IIIb Atlantic Area– Objectives– Results– Future

3 - EURECOMP – FP7– Context– Objectives– Expected impacts

4 - Conclusion

OPEN DAYS Workshop: ‘From Interreg to FP7 projects’ by J. SOTO– Brussels, 7 October 2008. /18

Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers

Higher Education Institute

Based in ‘Pays de la Loire’ region

Staff 60

Part of ICAM group: 7 campuses (France, Poland, Cameroon, Congo)

Nantes


ICAM - activities

Engineering SchoolGraduates 100 per year at master degree level

Vocational training centre100 trainees per year (technicians and unqualified people)

Technological Transfer centre~ 40 industrial RTD contracts per year

with large groups and with SMEs

Area of expertises• Mechanical Engineering• Electrical Engineering• Material Science

Bottom-up research activity (industry driven research)

Strongly connected with industry

Weak international research activity in 2003


ICAM – development strategy

Starting point Strong feed back from industry that requires more advanced

innovation

Difficulties of SMEs to handle large scale programs requiring complementary academic skills, …, large budget.

ICAM objectives Enlarge its existing Academic/Industrial networks

Achieved joining INTERREG IIIb programme (ERDF) MNAA

Build a large scale RTD project

Achieved with FP7 funded EURECOMP project


Duration: 3 years, 2003-2006

Objectives: "a network dedicated to industry"

Gather academic human and materials resources– to create a critical mass sufficient to tackle high technology research

– to exploit the complementarities of the partners

Share our best practices in Technology Transfer process

Identify weaknesses and opportunities for materials-related industry in the Atlantic Area

Materials Network for the Atlantic Area


University ofLimerick

Universityof Exeter

ICAMNantes

Universityof Aveiro University of

Salamanca

ICAMToulouse

MNAA - Consortium

• MIRC - Limerick• XAT - Exeter• ICAMs• CICECO - Aveiro• Univ. Salamanca• INEGI - Porto• IPN - Coimbra• IAC - Bristol• GAIKER - Bilbao

MNAA – Results (1/2)

Academic network successfully created

Extension to the Industrial Associations and Regional Development Agencies and « Competitiveness Centres (France) »

Complex Composite and Metallic Assemblies competitiveness centre gathering 100 members including: Large groups (Airbus, Aker Yards …), SMEs, Research Centres, and Professional organisations

Competitiveness Centre: Combination of companies, training centres and either public or private research units working together on common, innovative projects

French polymers processing centre


Extension towards industrial networks Successful with large companies/groups Less successful with SMEs

SMEs require greater assistance than large companies Environmental constraints Higher innovation products requested by customers (large groups) Exposure to low cost countries competitors

Sources of difficulties Lack of resource in staff availability and expertise Unability to maintain an awareness of current/new technology Lack of support for funding pre-competitive research specifically for SMEs (who

often cannot access to advanced research)


MNAA – Results (2/2)

Promote long term innovation for industry, in particular SMEs,

- identify their needs, their problems

- propose packaged solutions, including innovation financing opportunities,

technical and managerial "answers"

Develop the entrepreneurial spirit at the universitiescreate spin-offs from identified "sleeping innovations"

Submitted to INTERREG IVb – Atlantic Area

MNAA - Future

Objectives

Materials Technological Cluster for the Atlantic AreaMATECAA


EURECOMP - Context

Environmental project born thanks to MNAA

European legislation Europe promotes and pursues sustainable development

Legislation that puts pressure on producers

- Directives 2000/53/EC on End-of-Life Vehicles

- Directives 2002/96/EC on Waste Electrical and

Electronic Equipment

Today, the recycled parts are mainly made of metals

Increasing proportion of composites (45% in a sailing boat)

solution for composite recycling has to be found in order to achieve the targets set

Impose the recycling of an increasingly high percentage of their components (85% of a vehicle in 2005 to 95% by 2015).


Uncompleted recycling stream for composites industry

Dismantling centres for large ships in India and Bangladesh

for airplanes in Tarbes and Chateauroux (France)

for leisure boats in Caen-la-mer (France)

for cars and trucks in Romorantin (France)

But, no economic and ecologically-acceptable solutions found for composites recycling


Landfill / Incineration

Landfill is no longer a solution Landfill Waste directive 99/31/EC

Hazardous Waste directive 91/689/EEC

Lists of Hazardous Waste 2000/532/EC, 2001/572/53

stringent technical requirements for waste landfills

composite wastes unacceptable for this solution

Waste incineration: an inappropriate and expensive solution

Regulated by directive 2000/76/EC that prevents air, water and soil pollution by limiting emissions levels

- Some composite materials contain substances that could cause toxic emissions during incineration

- Poor recycling efficiency

composite incineration restricted


Composite Solvolysis Recycling

Eliminate the concept of waste by closing the loop Short-term solutions: mechanical recycling, incineration, pyrolysis, cement furnaces

Medium-term solution: Solvolysis – Chemical separation of Fibres and Resin +

Re-use of the reaction products as new source of raw materials

app rox . 20 0 barsa

R eacto r

H e a tin g

P ressu reC om posite S o lvo ly sis S ep ara tion

M in era l c o m p o u n d (0 .2 € /K g )

S o lu tio n (0 .4 € /K g )

R e in fo rce m en tfib re s

M ix ed w ith n ew fib re s

H O /C O2 2

A approx . 400 °C


EURECOMPRecycling Thermoset Composites of the

SUSTAINABLE SURFACE TRANSPORT

Work programme topic addressed

End of life strategies for vehicles/vessels and infrastructures

Consortium: built from MNAA and RDA (EMC2+Plastipolis) networks

Academic participants

ICAM (Fr), COMPOSITEC(Fr),

GAIKER (Sp), Universities of Limerick (IE), Bristol (UK) and Exeter (UK),

Industrial participants

Plastic Omnium (Fr), Volvo Trucks (Sue), Xietong Automobile Accessories (Chi),

SACMO (SME- Fr), Uriarte Elektro (SME- Sp)

Industrial Associations

European Composites Recycling Services Company (Be)

British Plastic Federation (UK),

Duration: 3 years

Budget: 2.5M€ - Start in autumn 2008


EURECOMP – expected impact

For the composite industry area Save in waste management costs Limit the raw material costs

Avoid companies moving to less environmentally-restricted countries

Enhance the competitiveness

Marketing « Green Label » impact

For the recycling industry area: Creation of a new recycling activity Recycling centre units Recycling machine manufacturing Supply chain

Evironnemental impact Generate new raw and intermediate products Source of waste management cost savings


Conclusion

MNAA INTERREG IIIb project (yesterday)

A major step foward to internationalisation

for ICAM and ICAM’s industrial partners

EURECOMP (today)

Materialisation of MNAA cooperation

SMEs : major actor of the project + major beneficiaries

Creation of a new activity

MATECAA INTERREG IV (tomorrow)

Intensification of SMEs assistance for innovation


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