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The 1st Review meeting of the FreeMe project has been completed successfully. The progress and future actions of all Work Packages were presented and the project is moving forward with new and exciting achievements.
WP1: The primary goal is to define the working methods and equipment to be used in the implementation of the project. Furthermore, the end user needs are to be defined in terms of material, characteristics, and standards.
WP2: It addresses human and environmental risk reduction by evaluating the potential safety implications, as well as determining the sustainability performance of new Plating on Plastic processes. The recyclability of coated plastic surfaces will also be evaluated.
WP3: The work package focuses on developing and optimising the use of Ni salts-containing sprayable composite resin in polymer surfaces to achieve high adhesion and suitable surface treatment methods for hardened resins and optimisation of the activation and / or metallisation process for both types of resin.
WP4: In WP4, Pd will be substituted during the surface activation process in order to develop and optimize the Cr6+ free process based on acid or alkali mixtures. The produced polymers will be metallized as part of this WP with the goal of achieving superior adhesion.
WP5: This work package seeks to optimize the optical inspection system that will be used for PoP process monitoring and to support the development of sprayable resin and chromic acid-free etching using in-silico techniques based on multiscale modeling.
WP6: The objective is to validate the Cr6+ and Pd free metallization process and the FreeMe technologies on sprayable resins for three end user applications in the automotive, aerospace, and home appliance industries.
WP7: While benchmark data on the FreeMe activities will be provided, WP7 aims to facilitate the acceptance of the developed processes and materials through the standardization activities. Furthermore, within this WP a decision support tool will be created to enable the safe and sustainable design of Plating on Plastics technology by the industry.
WP8: The purpose of this WP is to inform and educate particular target audiences about the outcomes and results of FreeMe. Furthermore, ownership and joint exploitation potential of the results will be determined through IPR seminars and individual discussions with the consortium, and the exploitation strategy for the major exploitable results will be defined and put into action. Finally, in order to meet the needs and requests of the identified stakeholders, training activities will be put into action.
WP9: The goal is to manage the FreeMe project properly on an administrative, financial, and technical level.
