Institute of Polymer Engineering
We create sustainable, plastic-based product and processes innovations with a focus on high-performance polymers and composites.
We achieve the level of ingenuity required for this by implementing an interdisciplinary approach, fusing together the fields of raw materials, construction and processing. In doing so we approach product development with plastics in a holistic way.
Our expertise in the fields of chemistry and analytics, process engineering and structural mechanics blends very well with the surface structuring and functionalisation expertise of the FHNW Institute of Polymer Nanotechnology.
Selected Projects
Consolidation of hybrid textiles
We develop and validate a consolidation model for the production of composites based on hybrid textiles. These consist of plies of reinforcing woven fibres and ...
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Integrated RFID tags in polymer injection molding
For the traceability of plastic components, if at all, they are marked with a simple code. The current methods for these codes are complex and do not offer the ...
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Robot-Assisted Additive Manufacturing
Robot-assisted additive manufacturing is a relatively novel but promising technology for economically producing even larger plastic components.
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Digitization of the temperature control unit
Innovative, model-based thermal industrial systems: Tool Temp AG and three institutes of engineering at the FHNW realized a novel control technology concept.
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Infrastructure
Analysis of material properties and their effects
Infrastructure