Queen's University of Belfast has established a multi-disciplinary Polymer Processing Research Centre (PPRC) with assistance from the Industrial Research and Technology Unit (IRTU) in Northern Ireland. The Centre provides the necessary technological infrastructure to support the activities of the plastics industry.
The PPRC builds on well established expertise at Queen's in rotational moulding and polymer extrusion by extending into complementary research areas of injection moulding, blow moulding and thermoforming. A comprehensive testing and analysis facility, to service industrial requirements and support research projects forms an integral part of the Centre.
The PPRC provides the expertise and facilities required to undertake fundamental and applied research in polymer processing, reflecting the priorities of the plastics industry. It covers all aspects of polymer processing including studies on: morphology, micro-structure, process control, rheology and physical properties.
Our staff work side by side with industrial partners in developing new processes and innovative products. This would normally take the form of brainstorming new ideas for projects, developing entire new processes through extensive pilot plant trials and finally implementing these processes into full scale production plants.
The purpose of the PPRC is to carry out leading edge, industrially exploitable, fundamental and applied research, which will demonstrably improve the competitiveness of the plastics industry.
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