Processing of Polymers & Innovative Material Systems

Propolis Research Group @ KU Leuven Bruges

The research group Propolis ("Processing of Polymers and Innovative Material Systems") of  KU Leuven Bruges (Faculty of Engineering Technology) has been active for many years in many areas of the "manufacturing" industry.

 

The research group Propolis ("Processing of Polymers and Innovative Material Systems") of  KU Leuven Bruges (Faculty of Engineering Technology) has been active for many years in many areas of the "manufacturing" industry.

During the last years, a lot of research is performed on polymer and/or composite lightweight structures.  Within this research, both the processing of the products as the performance of the products has been investigated.

It ranges from machine parts, energy systems, parts for the medical sector over the transportation and construction industries towards the (unmanned) aircraft industry ...

Propolis is performing research on short-fiber-reinforced plastics, biopolymers and biocomposites, recycled materials,...

To realize this, the following laboratories are available.  They include every aspect of the product life cycle.

  • lab material characterization
  • lab numerical simulations
  • lab polymer processing
  • lab application testing
     

Propolis group has close links with the Composite Materials Group (MTM KU Leuven), the Sustainable Materials Lab of Prof. W.Thielemans (KULAK) and the Circular Materials Center (Kortrijk)