JEC Composites Show, the biggest composites exhibition in Europe, will take place on April 13-14-15, 2010 in Paris, Porte de Versailles. The 2009 event welcomed over 27,700 visitors and 1,065 exhibiting brands coming from 96 countries.
Amroy Europe Oy is participating in JEC Show 2010. Welcome to visit our stand No K74 (the same location, as it was last year).

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Frost & Sullivan hosted its prestigious European Best Practices Awards Banquet on the 8 of December 2009 in London. Frost & Sullivan each year presents the award to the company who has carried out innovative research that can result significant change or contribution to the industry.
Awards were presented for technology and product innovation, excellence in research, exceptional competitive strategy and overall market leadership.

On the 8 of December 2009 in London Frost & Sullivan honoured Amroy Europe Oy with European Technology Innovation Award in Nanocomposites at the Awards Banquet.
Mr. Antti Valtakari (CEO) received the award on behalf of Amroy Europe Oy and in his speech thanked Frost & Sullivan for the European Technology Innovation Award in Nanocomposites:
”Amroy Europe Oy considers it a special privilege to be honored to receive this award. We would like to thank Frost & Sullivan for finding Amroy Europe worthy of this unique recognition. I accept Frost & Sullivan award on behalf of Amroy Europe Oy and our partners who have supported us in our efforts.

Amroy Europe Oy’s ambition is to become Number One Epoxy Matrix Formulator in the world using nanotechnology. This award recognizes outstanding performance of our company and shows that Amroy Europe Oy is heading in the right direction by challenging the limits of material performance.”

The Eurostars Programme is a European innoivation programme managed by
EUREKA. Its purpose is to provide funding for market-oriented research and development specifically with active participation of R&D performing small and medium-sized enterprises. Eurostars projects are funded primarily through national research schemes and EU framework Programme.

The operational side of the Eurostars Programe is managed by a team based in the EUREKA Secretariat in Brussels, in co-operation with the European Commission and national research funding agencies.

Amroy Europe Oy and Re-Turn AS are participating together in the Eurostars project “Development of novel nano-technology surface coatings for wind power installations”.
The aim of the project is to create moisture proof and dirt repellent composite surface coatings for wind mill blades. The platform for the development of these, so called gel coats, is a patented Amroy Europe’s CNT technology. Re-Turn will utilize new nano- and polymer technology in new, solvent free gelcoats. Re-Turn AS has more than 30 years of experience in formulating special epoxy coatings.
The project will involve assistance from key raw material suppliers like Bayer with their Baytubes (CNT) and leading European institutes specialized in nano technology.

Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation grants 487 500 euro for that project.

Amroy Europe Oy takes part in the research and training project CONTACT, funded by the European Commission’s Marie Curie programme. CONTACT involves 10 partner organizations from 7 different countries, who will recruit 15 PhD students and 3 post docs.

The research aim of CONTACT is the tailored industrial supply-chain development of CNT-filled polymer composites with improved mechanical and electrical properties. This will involve the optimization of CNT synthesis and dispersion, and the processing of CNT compounds, as well as the modelling and characterisation of CNT and CNT composites. The new technologies will be upscaled for applications in four industrial case studies: construction, wind blades, electrically conducting parts and electrodes for redox-flow batteries.

The training aim of CONTACT is to prepare the recruited researchers for careers in the field of nanotechnology. This involves both multi-disciplinary scientific training, secondments in both academia and industry, and courses in complementary (“soft”) skills.

The project will run from 1st October 2009 – 30th September 2013.

For additional information, please, see pdf version
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