Project number POCI-01-0247-FEDER-011205

Support under the Incentive System for Research and Technological Development

 

Project Designation: Ultra-Light Felt .: New generation of light felts

Object: Strengthen research, technological development and innovation;

Location: São João da Madeira

 

Total Eligible Cost: 575.971,12€

European Union financial support: 254.073,36€

 

Project summary

Fepsa - Feltros Portugueses, S.A. is a company dedicated to the manufacture and sale of fur felts and wool for the hats industry.

In addition to the development of the new Ultra Light Felt product, the present R & D project includes the experimental development of a prototype of universal felting test equipment in order to allow technical and scientific advances in the felting process. The project ends the development of a new process (technology and methodology) that allows the manufacture of a new felt with a substantial reduction in weight.

The present project structures a set of activities of industrial research and experimental development (R & D) that, through the raising of new knowledge in the process of felting and the development of capacities of interference in critical variables of the process, will allow to reach the new and disruptive ambition level of innovation in felt.

Thus, in order of relevance:

• To obtain new knowledge about the process / phenomenon of felting;
• Development of a new generation of felts, the Ultra-Light Felts;
• Conceptualization, construction and validation of a mono-technology prototype for felting process, with high flexibility in controlled interference capacity and detailed monitoring of the main process variables;
• Creation of laboratory conditions for the development of innovations in felting.