Objective TECUS is a precompetitive research PROJECT scheduled in two years. The main objective is to develop a new technology to cast Ti. The project is divided in seven workpackages, including the Project Management and the Exploitation and Dissemination activities. There is an increasing demand of Titanium implants and external dental fixtures due to the ageing population. To supply this demand there are commercially available several outdated technologies unable to cope with the reliability and reproducibility required for any industrial process. This obliges the dental laboratories to face extremely low yielding and high re-work of the produced fixtures. The new technology proposed in this project will solve this problem: it will be formed by the most suitable melting and casting technologies for titanium, "skull melting" and "centrifugal casting", and will be fitted with the required measurement systems, electronic controls, automation, and registration of data. The following technical developments will be approached:1) A MELTING process with a novel induction device to avoid melt contamination from the crucible.2) A CENTRIFUGAL casting unit for ensuring porosity free castings,3) INTEGRATION of Melting and Casting units,4) ELECTRONIC CONTROL, by the temperature of the metal,5) AUTOMATION of the process to ensure the production of reliable and reproducible components.6) A CODE OF BEST PRACTICE for the casting of titanium with the new technology will be also developed to make a friendly process which will not required high skill personnel to obtain excellent titanium castings.The target price for a subsequent machine working with this technology is in the range of 25-45 Keuros. The development of the new technology will drastically reduce the re-work and scrap of the dental laboratories, presently around 50%, to lower than 15%. It will ensure excellent metallurgical quality, and will be reproducible and traceable... Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrytransition metalssocial sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomationengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsmedical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologyimplants Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Call for proposal FP6-2002-SME-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme COOPERATIVE - Coordinator FUNDACION INASMET EU contribution No data Address Paseo Mikeletegi 2, Parque Tecnologico Miramon SAN SEBASTIAN Spain See on map Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ARAGONESES S.A. - CENTRO PROTESICO DENTAL Spain EU contribution No data Address c/ Sepulveda 13, Poligono Industrial de Alcobendas MADRID See on map Total cost No data NRU PRAEZISIONSTECHNOLOGIE GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Stollberger Strasse 31A NEUKIRCHEN See on map Total cost No data VALDENTIA SL Spain EU contribution No data Address C/Frau Juan Monzo VALENCIA See on map Total cost No data BEZNOSKA S.R.O Czechia EU contribution No data Address Delnicka 2727 KLADNO See on map Total cost No data PHOENIX SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES LTD United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Unit 15, Apex Business Park HAILSHAM See on map Total cost No data BESCOS LABORATORIO DENTAL Spain EU contribution No data Address Poligono Malpica Calle F Oeste Grupo Gregorio Maranon Nave 53 ZARAGOZA See on map Total cost No data SVATOPLUK KRIZEK ZLATNICTVI Czechia EU contribution No data Address Stupkova 10 OLOMOUC See on map Total cost No data CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution No data Address Rue Michel Ange, 3 PARIS See on map Total cost No data
