#147 sensXPERT receives AVK Award on contactless cure testing in trenchless technologies

sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing receives AVK Award on contactless cure testing in trenchless technologiesDuring the award ceremony Jens Ridzewski, Prof. Dr.-Ing. held the laudatio and reasoned the award as follows:"If you also look at the production of liners or the application of liners, it used to be common practice to cure the liners, i.e. for the trenchless rehabilitation of pipes, using steam. For some time now, UV curing has become established here. In itself a very, very nice topic, but you have to bear in mind that UV curing is of course controlled by how quickly you pull the lamps through the sewer, through the pipe and how thick the material is.This all has an influence on the degree of cure of the material, and sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing (NETZSCH Group) has managed to install an in-line system here, which is therefore directly able to determine the cross-linking, the degree of curing, of these liners, and that is important to monitor the quality in-line and then, if necessary, to adjust the process parameters, for example to reduce the speed of passage. The first two points are the result of this project. The advantage of UV curing over steam curing... the trenchless sewer rehabilitation compared to excavation, especially in urban areas, does not need to be clarified.The point is precisely what the jury assessed here is the continuous process monitoring and the in-line control of the parameters for the cross-linking of the curing of the liner, so that in principle the risk of having to remove semi-cross-linked liners from the old pipe can be significantly minimized."Ilkay Özkisaoglu took the opportunity at the JEC Forum DACH 2024 to speak to Dominik Riescher, who represented sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing after this year's AVK award ceremony.AVK is the world's oldest plastics association with an impressive history of over 100 years now. For the past three decades they award innovation in the DACH region and foster a culture of collaboration between academia, institutions and manufacturers. Composites Lounge congratulates all members and the AVK leadership Elmar Witten and Michael Effing for leading the community and having a fine taste when it comes to groundbreaking technologies in plastics and composites!JEC Group fantastic Forum in Stuttgart! Looking forward to JEC FORUM DACH in Italy, Central Europe and again in Germany (Dresden) in 2025!YouTube Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB42gygZPWw&feature=youtu.be