Despite the lock down, the Customisize consortium met virtually to discuss the progress made in the last 6 months. As usual, all partners attended the online meeting and went through the different work packages. The current situation creates some difficulties in the...

Today, a group of 20 high school students from Olot (Catalonia) came to Leitat facilities in Barcelona 22@ for a visit to discover the realm of nanomaterials. The event took place in the framework of EscoLab, the program of the town hall of Barcelona aiming to open...

On the 8th of October, Leitat organized in framework of the Customisize project (Horizon 2020 – Clean Sky 2), an open workshop dedicated to carbon fibers and composite materials recycling. Speakers presented current techniques being used and developed in the field of...

On the 9th of October, the Customisize consortium met for the second time to discuss the progress made so far in the project. Leitat hosted the meeting in its facilities in Terrassa (Spain). All partners attended the meeting and they went through the various work...

From the 18th to the 20th of September, the 7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on the Mechanical Response of Composites (Composites 2019) took place in Girona (Spain). During this conference, the CUSTOMISIZE project is having a strong presence: a booth and a oral...

On the 8th of October, Leitat is organizing in framework of the Customisize project an open workshop dedicated to carbon fibers and composite materials recycling. The event will gather industrial experts from various sectors presenting technological advances in the...

The 9th EASN International Conference, the largest and most comprehensive gathering of the Association so far, was successfully held in Athens, Greece between the 3rd and 6th of September 2019. Claudia Aguilar from Leitat attended the event and presented the...

CUSTOMISIZE received a grant to develop a new family of carbon fibres’ sizing in order to improve the interfacial adhesion between recycled carbon fibre, polymers and matrices. The final objective being to obtain stronger composites to be used by the European...

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On the 11th of April in the headquarters of Fraunhofer ICT located in Pfinztal (Germany), the topic manager being Fraunhofer ICT as well as the three partners forming the consortium including Leitat, Rescoll and Alpha Recyclage Composites, met to launch the...

New tailor-made sizing strategies for recycled carbon fibres to improve the mechanical properties of polymeric and cementitious composites ABSTRACT The CUSTOMISIZE project aims to develop a new family of carbon fibres’ sizing in order to improve the interfacial...