[Italy] Crp Technology
Having been a primary active partner to the main Racecar Constructors for more than 30 years, CRP Technology offers a unique opportunity to the Motor Sport market: a support throughout the entire project, including the manufacturing process.
CRP has been instrumental in the success of many race winning F1, Moto GP, Rally Raid, ALMS and World Rally Championship teams.
What makes this company different are the partnerships we have formed with the different teams. CRP is involved at the earliest design and development stages and our innovative approach to the use of new materials and technology is widely recognised by the race car industry.
CRP Technology therefore provides race car design and construction services to competition car constructors and motoracing teams.
Constantly developing and improving itself, CRP’s business is nowadays constituted by:
- The complete creation of mechanical parts, especially for sports racing cars, including the study and engineering of the customer’s main project, to the choice of the manufacturing process
- The sale of parts made by layer manufacturing techniques using internally developed composite materials WINDFORM branded
- Production and commercialization of those WINDFORM composite materials for laser sintering all around the world.
The main target is the motorsport market, but also the aerospace sector is showing an interest in these technologies.
CRP is widening to new markets, in order to share the new technologies developed for the motorsport market with other industrial sectors.
CRP Technology has several major activities:
- HQ & HSM CNC (high speed and high quality machining with 3, 4 and 5 axes)
- Rapid Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping services
- Rapid Casting (lost wax casting with RP patterns) in Titanium, Aluminium, Steel alloys or Superalloys
- Total Quality Management
- R&D: continuous research on materials like metallic alloys, plastic materials and new manufacturing processes development
- Rapid Manufacturing & Rapid Prototyping composite materials production and sales
- Reverse Engineering
In particular, CRP Technology manages innovative projects, such as high precision titanium alloy castings and hard to work materials (i.e. Aluminium MMC) machining of complex shapes.
The Machining Department is characterized by CNC milling centres, suited in particular to hi-tech materials machining. The Quality-Control Department guarantees a continuous control on the materials and on each production step, according to ISO 9001:2000 certification, the company being certified with the National Organization RINA since 1997.
The maximum internal Logistic integration takes advantage of the most modern ICT techniques: the company INTRANET network connects and updates all the company components, from administration to engineering (R&D) and production, from finance to marketing.
CRP is a pioneer in RP application, having started in 1996 with the RP technology analysis, when it was almost unknown in Italy, and it developed new cutting edge materials.
In fact, CRP soon had to face the lack of suitable materials to develop their ideas and Franco Cevolini explained: “RP was a fast, cost effective way to realise new design concepts; it allowed us to create practically perfect 3D shapes. Nevertheless with standard materials the models would had been too fragile to work with referring to the applications we had in our mind. Therefore, in 1996, we understood that it could be possible to manufacture stronger prototypes, suitable for wind tunnel tests, but it was necessary to develop more performing materials. I mean, the Rapid Prototyping potential was assumed but the powders structural properties had to be improved. Therefore, thanks to research and experimentation we made the WINDFORM® range”.
There are 5 products in the current WINDFORM® line up:
- Windform GF
- WindForm™ PRO
- WindForm™ PRO B
- WindForm™ XT
- WindForm™ FX
WindForm™ FX, a new generation polyamide based material, that CRP Technology has launched on June 2007 and that is available to produce parts more flexible but resistance.
It’s particularly suited for Rapid Manufacturing applications.
Contacts
C.R.P. Technology S.r.l.
Via Cesare della Chiesa, 21
41100 Modena, Italy
tel. +39-059-821135
website: www.crptechnology.com
Some explicative images. Courtesy of CRP Technology
2005 PS04 Minardi F1 “Coca cola” car sidepods made with Windform XT
Wing profile, made with Windform PROB, which has all the particulars for the wind tunnel in F1
Frontal cold duct fan used on commercial aircrafts, made with Windform XT
Gearbox case (formula 1 racing competition) made in Titanium Rapid Casting
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i need the composition of crp material.
You can ask directly to CRP Technology. See the following LINK http://www.crptechnology.com