Bercella
BERCELLA is a dynamic and innovative Italian company driving since 25 years the design and engineering of cutting-edge solutions using Advanced Composites and Light Alloys. Bercella is specialized in large and complex structures, providing demanding industries with tailored high-performance systems, through a 360° service: from early design to engineering development to advanced manufacturing, all being vertically integrated in-house, for final turnkey solutions enhancing process control, costs reduction and efficiency.
BERCELLA is the ZeroWasteLIFE project coordinator, as well as the project’s partner at which headquarter the system will be installed, validating the whole manufacturing process and supporting its replicability in other fields. BERCELLA will exploit and maintain the system well beyond its 5-years depreciation time, enabling further testing and assessment of the projects’ results’ replicability in other business cases/sectors.
RINA Consulting
RINA is a global corporation that provides services across the Energy, Marine, Certification, Transport & Infrastructure and Industry sectors through a global network of over 200 offices in 70 countries. Through more than 5.600 talented professionals around the world, RINA provides a wide range of high quality tailored solutions aiming to back up the market operators across the entire life cycle of their projects. All RINA services are performed at the highest professional level, understanding and complying with Client’s needs and requirements while taking into due consideration sustainability and health, safety and environmental targets.
RINA’s role in the ZeroWasteLIFE project is to contribute to design development and topological optimization for CFD simulations, capitalizing on RINA industrial and research expertise in structural analyses and topological optimization approaches tuned for different processes. RINA will also develop environmental, social, and economic sustainability assessment, market studies, dissemination and exploitation activities.
NOBRAK
NOBRAK is an innovative French company dedicated to the production of technical preforms, mostly for composite applications and also the production of composite parts and structures. With a growing team of 12 people experienced in the fields of innovation, technical textiles, composite, mechanical conception and simulation, hand-crafting, 3 and 5 axis milling and 3d printing, NOBRAK is developing a set of innovations around tailored fibre placement (TFP) technology, addressing mass production markets through the high volume- TFP (HV-TFP) technology.
Within the ZeroWasteLIFE project, NOBRAK is the developer of the innovative concept of multi-strand tape laying and 3D-2D flattening and is responsible for the manufacturing of the trial parts.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Programme for Environment and Climate Action (LIFE) under grant agreement N°101114149. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.