Composite materials processes

Innovative composites processes respond to the challenges faced by manufacturers to reduce weight and manufacture complex structures.

IRT Jules Verne develops solutions that match product design and implementation process, and that enable the automation of composites processes with the objective to optimise costs, production rates and performance. Beyond economic performance, we work on reducing the environmental impact by optimizing the flow of materials into the factory as well as the energy efficiency of processes.
The team dedicated to composites processes combines industrial profiles from the aeronautics and automotive industries with academic profiles. This complementarity and the multi-disciplinary approach allow IRT Jules Verne to offer a complete range of solutions, from raw materials to the part or the structure as a whole, including upcycling or recycling.

The Composite Processes team focuses on preforming for thermoplastic and thermosetting matrices and on manufacturing processes for thermoplastic parts and structures with glass or carbon fiber reinforcements. It works on industrial demonstrators up to scale 1.

Engineers and doctors dedicated to the development of innovative composites processes work in close collaboration with other IRT Jules Verne teams specialising in characterisation, monitoring, modelling, simulation and robotics in order to propose comprehensive solutions for each industrial problem.