#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 technologies

During 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!

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