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This page contains information about project partners.
The know-how required to fulfil the objectives
successfully exists in the project consortium. The industrial partner, Alliance Tire
Company, is responsible for the die design and set-up of extrusion lines. Apex
Technologies, simulation consultancy expert, participates in the definition of industrial
test cases, dissemination activities and project co-ordination. Polyflow SA, the software
provider, participates in simulation and dissemination tasks. Technion, as a HPCN
and computational mechanics expert, contributes to the simulation task by analysing
the numerical aspects (convergence) and HPCN aspects ( parallelization, scalability), and
as a teaching institution will participate in the dissemination activities. Technion
also provides the consortium access to its HPCN computer platforms.
 | Technion Fluid mechanics and
HPCN expert |
43 rue Froidevaux 75014 Paris France
Phone: +33 1 42 79 80 39
Fax: +33 1 43 27 19 83
Contact person: Israel Wander
E-mail: projects@apex-technologies.fr
Web: http://www.apex-technologies.fr
In consulting projects involving fluid mechanics,
the POLYFLOW FE code is used by Apex Technologies to simulate manufacturing processes such
as rubber and polymer extrusion. Most of the consultancy projects include die geometry and
process parameter optimisation. Apex Technologies is involved in a close collaboration
with the Research Centre of Hutchinson, which is a French industrial company producing
rubber components for the automotive, aerospace, construction and consumer products
industries and one of Europe's leaders in the transformation of industrial rubber. The
commitment of Apex Technologies to develop expertise in the die design area is also
confirmed by its participation in ESOP project. In this project, Apex Technologies
contributes its expertise in realistic industrial simulations of extrusion process to the
development of die optimisation techniques using POLYFLOW code.
1, Friedlander str. 38100 Hadera Israel
Phone: +972 6 624 0576
Fax: +972 6 624 0555
Contact person: Yossi Arzouan
E-mail: yosia@ibm.net
Web:
Alliance Tire Company is the sole tire
manufacturer in the State of Israel. The company was established in 1950, using the
know-how from Dayton. Now it is ranked among the 50 largest tire companies in the world,
with a 1995 annual turnover amounted to 100 MECU, of which ¾ is for export. The company
employs about 1000 people in two locations, and sells its tires to the domestic market and
exports them to 55 countries. The main export markets are Germany, Britain, France, Italy
and USA. The major exported tire groups are: agricultural, industrial and earthmovers.
Alliance makes efforts to supply a wide variety of quality tires at competitive prices
with efficient and fast service. In 1996 the company received the ISO-9002 certification.
All Alliance passenger tires are high performance tires, standing to the high European
velocity test levels. High quality grades were also obtained when the tires were tested in
USA for the U.T.Q.G. (Uniform Tire Quality Grading) according to the Department of
Transportation regulations. Alliance is in process of changing to radial tires and
increasing its production capacity. Special effort is devoted to development of new
modern tires. The company introduces about 30 new tires every year.
16, Place de l'Université 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve Belgium
Phone: +32 10 452 861
Fax: +32 10 453 009
Contact person: Jean-Marie Marchal
E-mail: jmm@polyflow.be
Web: http://www.polyflow.be
Founded in 1988, Polyflow S.A. is located in
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and currently employs 17 employees, among which seven doctors
in engineering. The company is active in the field of numerical simulation of viscous and
viscoelastic flows, in order to study and improve relevant industrial processes. A major
portion of the company's budget is devoted to research and development, and Polyflow S.A.
maintains close relationships with the Department of Applied Mechanics of the University
of Louvain to ensure a quick technology transfer from research to industry. Polyflow S.A.
develops and commercialises the POLYFLOW Finite Element package, and performs in-house
consultancy projects. The POLYFLOW code provides advanced tools for the simulation of the
extrusion process. It is the only commercial code to provide its users with full
viscoelastic flow capability for fluids of the differential and of the integral types and
is used by over 75 corporate research centres and 55 universities throughout the world,
and is licensed to major resin suppliers and transformers in Europe and around the world.
The code was successfully ported to parallel platforms in the framework of EUROPORT
project.
Technion City,Aerospace Engineering Department, 32000
Haifa Israel
Phone: +972 4 829 3814
Fax: +972 4 823 1848
Contact person: Prof. Dan Givoli
E-mail: givolid@aerodyne.technion.ac.il
Web: http://www.technion.ac.il
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