It begins the project Wetcomp with the participation of Avep, Aitex and the German institute OMPG

The project Wetcomp, of 2 years of length, puts of self-evident the narrow relation that can arrive to exist between the textile sectors and of transformation of plastics. This simbiosis puts of self-evident in areas of big value added, like the compound plastic materials. This project carry it out the Valencian Association of Employers of plastics (Avep), the Technological Institute of the Textile (Aitex) and the Technological Institute German of Textile and plastic Materials (OMPG).

The past 18 January celebrated in Alcoy (Alicante), in the headquarters of Aitex the meeting that gave beginning to the planned actions in the European project Wetcomp, whose main aim is to show that the technology ‘wet-laid' is useful to obtain a big quantity of textile materials no-fabrics, from textile waste. The no-knitted ‘wet-laid' are elaborated by means of the modification of a process to manufacture paper. This is, the fibres that have to be used are suspended in a half aqueous, which will be drained of progressive way. Regarding the comparison of the technology ‘wet-laid' with the technology ‘dry-laid', is possible for the first process so many long fibres like short fibres (for example fibres of glass).

The project Wetcomp will be spread in the events JEC Show Paris (of the 27 to 29 March) and Plast Milan 2012 (of the 8 to 12 May).