Abstract

The objective of HI-FI is the development of an innovative process for the production of fibreboard out of annual plants, leading to a product with greatly enhanced moulding capabilities. HI-FI will minimise the use of resources (wood, energy) and environment impact. The fibreboard produced with this new process will be an environmentally friendly superior quality product based on renewable and sustainable resources. Due to its high quality, HI-FI fibreboard will substitute materials in the automobile industry (moulded internal parts) as well as in the other industrial areas (e.g. decorative mouldable parts). This will improve competitiveness and increase employment in farming, fibreboard production, their end-users, the manufacturers of plant machinery and the suppliers of plant automation. It will also allow for an easy non-polluting disposal and recycling of the product after usage.

Contacts

Coordinator

• Otto BIEDERMANN / Funder Industries GmbH Technical Projects Department / AUSTRIA

Participant

• Fernando CALDEIRA SARAIVA / British Maritime Technology Ltd. Research Department / UNITED KINGDOM
• Centro Ricerche Fiat SCPA Advanced Process Tecnologies / ITALY
• Winfried HERMANUTZ / Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtsch aft Reutlingen Institut Für Angewandte Forschung / GERMANY
• Alfredo NOVELLI / Orsi Automazione SpA R&D Department / ITALY
• Herald KOCH / Pama Papiermaschienen GmbH Technical Department / GERMANY
• Massimo ZAGATI / Pianfei Engineering S.r.l. ITALY
• Jean Marc HEMERYCK / Terre de Lin FRANCE
• Karl RAAB / Verein Sudhanf AUSTRIA