Nanores

The consumer goods market is changing: on the one hand there is still the need for low-cost mass-scale production, on the other hand there is a growing need of products customization. Products must answer to higher design and functionality demands, smaller quantities with shorter product life cycles. Time to market gains additional significance in the added value chain.

To meet together all those needs, a new manufacturing approach, without the typical delays associated with traditional manufacturing methods, is required.

Rapid Manufacturing represents the solution to all those requirements, but to affirm its potentialities a radical innovations in basic materials for SLS processes is necessary.  Moving from this background, the project will make a real, large, step up in polymers and composites properties by including nano features into the base materials. STEP-UP project will provide a wide variety of innovative SLS systems enable to create “final components” through the employment of innovative nano-charged polymers. A mechano-chemical approach is used for the development of these innovative nanocomposites, in which mechanical, thermal, electrical and chemical properties will be promoted in a synergic way