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Brightlands Materials Center will host the virtual SAMPE Benelux 2021 Spring meeting
On May 11th in the afternoon, Brightlands Materials Center will host the virtual SAMPE Benelux 2021 Spring meeting. The conference theme will target composite solutions that contribute to a sustainable future. Besides an introduction of our programs Lightweight...
Reducing CO2 emissions by making vehicles lighter
The Perspective program is a program that challenges scientists to establish innovative new lines of research that can have a genuine economic and societal impact. Part of this is the research project is known as: ‘Reducing CO2 emissions by making vehicles lighter’ in...
Improving sustainability in housing construction by faster and better insulation
Under the name BRIMM (Bright Renovation Insulation for building envelope through Materials and Methods) a consortium of companies and research and knowledge institutes is developing a new, smart method to insulate homes quickly and less expensively. Within this...
Introducing Rick Leuven, Research Engineer Lightweight Automotive
Rick Leuven works in the Lightweight Automotive (LWA) team as a research engineer. He is dedicated to laboratory work with a special focus on processes such as extrusion, injection molding, and compression molding. Six questions for Rick: What developments are you...
Recycled PE now also used for thin film
Brightlands Materials Center has achieved stunning results in partnership with KIVO Flexible Plastics in improving the quality of recycled PE for thin film applications. This enables KIVO as one of the larger PE film producers in Europe to use this recyclate for...
How ‘smart thermochromic glass’ saves energy in homes
In an informative interview with TNO our senior business developer Eugène Veerkamp explains more about our SunSmart development. A thermochromic smart window that keeps your building cool in summer and warm in winter, simultaneously reducing heating and cooling...
Brightlands Materials Center is co-organizing the Circular Plastics Conference 2021
Research and developments on the recycling of plastic are evolving rapidly. It is time to join forces and identify the relevant steps to come to a 100% circular system in 2050. The Circular Plastics Conference is bringing together the community active in just this...
Circular Packaging Program covered in Dutch trade magazine for packaging industry
Our circular packaging program was featured in the Dutch trade magazine for the packaging industry: Pakkracht. In this article, Caroli Buitenhuis, Business Developer, gives insight in the importance of circular packaging, the program and the developments on the short...
Design and fabrication of injection over-molded flexible electronic demonstrator
Brightlands Materials Center, with its partners in project Flexlines, has designed and fabricated an injection over-molded flexible electronic demonstrator with high strength engineering thermoplastics. High design freedom is presented in this demonstrator since the...
SunSmart – The first affordable, energy-optimised window
Recently our new trademark SunSmart launched. SunSmart is the first affordable, sustainable, energy-optimised window, which has high visible transparency combined with autonomously switch (thermochromic), from solar infrared transmissive to blocking state depending on...
Solution routes for PET trays recycling presented at Packaging Design4Sustainability Conference
Although PET bottles are already reasonably well recycled, the recycling rates for PET trays are virtually zero. Among a number of different reasons why this is the case, the design of the trays plays an important role. The waste fraction of PET trays contains a...
Introducing senior scientist Güralp Özkoc
What made you decide to apply at Brightlands Materials Center? Before my current position at Brightlands Materials Center, I mainly worked in an academic environment for a long time. Over the years, I gained a strong fundamental science foundation, but I also...