Aircraft decommissioning and recycling is a multi-disciplinary process, with environmental, operational, safety, legal and economic aspects. The number of aircraft retirements has been increasing steadily over the last decades.
Helacs News
Dismantling technologies: Resistance welding debonding & abrasive water cutting
Nowadays, composite materials are gradually gaining relevance in the aeronautic sector. Their excellent mechanical properties, as well as their reduced density make them a suitable material to reduce the aircraft weight while respecting the mechanical requirements of the metallic materials they are replacing.
HELACS project, presented at Composiforum 2022 to the industy
The HELACS project was one of the main projects presented at the 3rd edition of COMPOSIFORUM, the international forum on composite materials, organised by the Cátedra Aitiip-Unizar, in Zaragoza.
Centexbel hosts HELACS M18 general assembly in Kortrijk
HELACS faces the ending of its second year by accomplishing an important milestone: the celebration of its first onsite General Assembly, framed in Month 18 of project lifetime.
Industrial operators discover the strategic functionality of the Dummy Tool
In Aitiip Technology Centre, its team of engineers has developed a new tool called "Dummy Tool", which could revolutionise industrial production and robotic programming in the future.
HELACS, leading PLATA’s workshop on innovations in the aeronautic industry
This July, Teruel Airport (PLATA) organised an interesting workshop at its facilities, which brought together dozens of representatives from the Spanish aeronautical sector.
HELACS, at the Plastic Recycling Show Europe
This year, the HELACS project has been present at the stand of Aitiip Centro Tecnológico, during its participation in PRSE 2022.
Dummy Tool, the future of industrial robot programming system
From some time now, robot teaching process was led by two techniques, always based on the displacement of the robot itself.
New Version! Get the HELACS’s updated brochure
As the project moves forward, there is also advances in the dissemination material. Here you can get the new version of the HELACS’s brochure.
HELACS, starring in Advanced Factories 2022
Advanced Factories reaffirms, once again, its position within the industrial panorama in southern Europe. It is already a benchmark event in the innovation calendar, and this 2022 has consolidated its success.
HELACS, Transforming the dissmantling process of the next generation of aircrafts
The HELACS project has recently completed one year of life. During this time, the consortium partners have been making progresses in their research and in the development of novel robotics to recycle composite materials of large components. In this way, HELACS is consolidated as a revolutionary alternative to the problem of the end of life of this type of aircraft components, facilitating their recyclability and, therefore, making their recovery and reuse possible. helacs paves the way towards the green transition, which is now the main goal of Europe’s aviation industry.
Valorisation of reusable parts in aviation
For aircrafts that are no longer in service, the owner considers the trade-off between direct resale and disassemble & recycled. Besides that, HELACS project (Holistic processes for the cost-effective and sustainable management of End of Life of Aircraft Composite Structures) is focused on the study of the second one of these options.
This project has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 101007871 |
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