EU ROUNDUP: A SUMMER OF TECH BREATHROUGHS PROMISES GAINS FOR EUROPEAN SMEs
September 1st, 2012
BY ROB STOKES
NEW TECHNOLOGY has been developed with the assistance of EU funds to improve the manufacturing pipeline for moulded plastic parts. Cordis, the EU's community R&D information service claims that commercialisation of this should hard-pressed European SMEs to significantly offset the impact of competition from countries with lower manufacturing costs.
The multi-nation Foinmoulds project co-ordinated by the Erku Praezisionsteile private R&D centre in Pasching, Austria, came up with a new mould concept using metal foam inserts that increase heat ...
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