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olympischer Sport baut Allianz zu Reduzierung Kohlenstofffasern

olympischer Sport baut Allianz zu Reduzierung Kohlenstofffasern

Um den Earth Day zu feiern, sieht ein bahnbrechendes Projekt den Start einer Allianz aus internationalen Verbänden, führenden Sportherstellern, Verbundspezialisten und Akademikern vor, die zusammenarbeiten, um ein Demonstrationsprojekt zur Wiederverwendung und Neuausrichtung von Kohlenstofffasern zu unterstützen.

Um den Earth Day zu feiern, sieht ein bahnbrechendes Projekt den Start einer Allianz aus internationalen Verbänden, führenden Sportherstellern, Verbundspezialisten und Akademikern vor, die zusammenarbeiten, um ein Demonstrationsprojekt zur Wiederverwendung und Neuausrichtung von Kohlenstofffasern zu unterstützen.

Das Carbon Fibre Circular Demonstration Project wird vom World Sailing Trust, der mit World Sailing verbundenen gemeinnützigen Organisation, als Teil ihres Schwerpunktbereichs „Planet“ durchgeführt, um sicherzustellen, dass das Segeln eine dauerhafte positive Wirkung hat und dass die Gewässer des Planeten geschützt und geschützt werden.

Die vom Internationalen Olympischen Komitee (IOC) unterstützte multisportliche Zusammenarbeit war ein wichtiger Treiber dieses Projekts – sowohl zwischen internationalen Verbänden als auch Sportartikelherstellern mit dem Ziel, mit den Endbenutzern der Ausrüstung in Kontakt zu treten.

In Zusammenarbeit mit World Sailing und der International Biathlon Union, unterstützt von Wilson Sporting Goods, umfasst die Allianz die International Tennis Federation (ITF) und die Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) sowie die Sportartikelhersteller Starboard, SCOTT Sports und OneWay, die zur Unterstützung zusammenarbeiten ein innovatives und disruptives Programm, das auf der Wiederverwendung von Carbonkomponenten im Sportsektor basiert.

Die Allianz arbeitet mit dem technischen Leiter Lineat Composites mit Unterstützung der Forschungsabteilung der University of Bristol im National Composite Centre in Bristol an einem Demonstrationsprojekt, um zu zeigen, wie es möglich ist, gebrochene/ausgefallene Carbonkomponenten aus einer bestimmten Sportart zurückzugewinnen Sektor durch einen neuartigen Regenerierungsprozess, der die Fasern unter Verwendung des innovativen HiPerDiF-Prozesssystems zu unidirektionalen Prepreg-Bändern neu ausrichtet.

Neue technische Carbontapes werden dann an Komponentenhersteller innerhalb der Allianz geliefert, um sie zur Wiederverwendung in neue technische Komponenten zu integrieren. Ein typisches Beispiel wäre eine gebrochene Carbon-Fahrradkomponente und die Fasern zur Herstellung neuer Bänder zu verwenden und sie in einem zweiten Leben in einem Carbon-Skistock, einer Segelkomponente oder einem Tennisschläger zu verwenden

Kohlefaser ist ein Hochleistungsmaterial, das in einer Vielzahl von Branchen verwendet wird. Gewichts- und Festigkeitseigenschaften haben dazu geführt, dass das Material in Sportgeräten, insbesondere bei Wettkämpfen auf Elite-Niveau, weit verbreitet ist. Die Verwendung des Materials nimmt zu, und der Sport ist nach der Luft- und Raumfahrt und der Windturbinenindustrie der drittgrößte Nutzer des Materials.

Kohlefaser kann jedoch nicht wie Aluminium wieder eingeschmolzen und recycelt werden, und bis heute war keine nachhaltige End-of-Life-Lösung für Kohlefaser verfügbar.

Das Projekt sieht vor, die gebrochene Komponente zu nehmen, ihre Fasern neu auszurichten und diese Kohlefaser dann wiederzuverwenden, um eine neue Komponente herzustellen. Das Verfahren, das einem High-Tech-Papierherstellungsverfahren nicht unähnlich ist, produziert Kohlefaserband, das erste Ergebnisse aus diesem Demonstrationsprojekt zeigen, dass es in einigen Fällen besser ist als die ursprüngliche Frischfaser.

Die manuelle F&E-Maschine am National Composite Center ermöglicht es Lineat Composites und dem Forschungsteam der Universität Bristol, Kohlenstofffasern manuell auszurichten, aber die Maschine in der nächsten Phase des Prozesses wird es Lineat ermöglichen, täglich rund 80 Milliarden Fasern zu kommerzialisieren und auszurichten , die aneinandergereiht dreimal um die Welt gehen.

Dee Caffari, Vorsitzender des World Sailing Trust, kommentiert: „Zusammenarbeit und Bündnisse waren ein Schlüsselfaktor bei diesem Projekt. Wir wissen, dass im Sport im Allgemeinen sehr viel Kohlefaser verwendet wird, insbesondere im Hochleistungssport. Die Verwendung von Kohlefaser in einigen anderen Branchen ist jedoch noch größer. Dieses Demonstrationsprojekt war ein erster Schritt und wir möchten jetzt andere Sportarten und Branchen einladen, die nächste Stufe dieses Prozesses zu entwickeln.“

 
Liz Wardley in Volvo Ocean Race

Volvo Ocean Race 01.08.2017

01.08.2017

Liz Wardley joins Turn the Tide on Plastic
Turn the Tide on Plastic skipper Dee Caffari has named her first crew member of the 2017-18 edition by signing up two-time Volvo Ocean Race veteran Liz Wardley (full story below)

Turn the Tide on Plastic skipper Dee Caffari has named her first crew member of the 2017-18 edition by signing up two-time Volvo Ocean Race veteran Liz Wardley.

The Australian, who first competed in the Race in 2001-02 onboard Amer Sports Too, and more recently was part of Team SCA’s 2014-15 campaign, joins the team as Boat Captain.

Liz made her name winning numerous titles in the Hobie Cat 16 class, before becoming the first woman to win the Sydney-Hobart Race in 1999, having skippered a boat at the age of just 19 the previous year.

Wardley boasts more experience around the One Design Volvo Ocean 65’s than anyone else on the planet having clocked up over 80,000 nautical miles over the last four years.

Since the end of the Team SCA campaign, she has been working as part of the Volvo Ocean Race Boatyard team in Lisbon, as the facility completed a comprehensive refit of the whole fleet.

“I’m absolutely delighted to join Turn the Tide on Plastic for the next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race,“ said Wardley. „I’ve made no secret of my desire to compete for a third time and to do so as part of what will be a fully mixed crew is incredibly exciting.

“I’ve spent a lot of time around the Volvo Ocean 65s since the end of the 2014-15 edition and I’ve learned a lot which I can’t wait to put into practice during another race around the world.”

The Turn the Tide on Plastic campaign, backed by the Mirpuri Foundation and the Ocean Family Foundation, will amplify the United Nations Environment’s ‘Clean Seas: Turn the Tide on Plastic’ message throughout the Race.

Wardley, who was born and raised in Papua New Guinea, is a passionate ocean health campaigner and believes that this campaign can make a real difference to what is a growing issue.

“As someone who grew up around the ocean in some of the most remote parts of the planet, I have seen the heartbreaking impact of plastic pollution first hand,” she continued.

“We need to do something about it – and I’m extremely proud about being part of this trailblazing campaign, backed by some passionate partners, which I really believe can make an incredible impact on a global scale.”

Caffari, who has been trialling potential crew members in Lisbon over the past month as she aims to build a youth-orientated and mixed squad, added that Wardley’s experience makes her a key part of the team.

“I know Liz well having sailed alongside her on Team SCA and she is one of the best in the business,” she said. “She knows the Volvo Ocean 65 inside out having spent more time around these boats than any other sailor in the world – male or female – and that’s experience you simply can’t replicate.”

Caffari and Wardley oversaw a trial crew which recently sailed the Turn the Tide on Plastic boat from Lisbon, Portugal to Gosport, UK where the full Volvo Ocean Race fleet is stationed ahead of the beginning of Leg Zero on Wednesday 2 August. Further members of the Turn the Tide on Plastic crew will be announced shortly.

The Turn the Tide on Plastic boat will amplify the Volvo Ocean Race’s larger sustainability focus, and joins team AkzoNobel (Simeon Tienpont, Netherlands), Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier, France), MAPFRE (Xabi Fernández, Spain), Vestas 11th Hour Racing (Charlie Enright, USA), Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag (David Witt, Australia) and Team Brunel (Bouwe Bekking, Netherlands) in the fleet for the 2017-18 edition.

The Volvo Ocean Race starts from Alicante on 22 October and will stop at Lisbon, Cape Town, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Auckland, Itajaí, Newport, Cardiff and Gothenburg before a big finish in The Hague at the end of June 2018.

 

Dee Caffari leads the youth crew

Volvo Ocean Race 14.06.2017

 

Britain’s Dee Caffari will lead ‚Turn the Tide on Plastic‘

a mixed, youth focused team with a strong sustainability message in the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18. Her campaign, already backed by the Mirpuri Foundation and Ocean Family Foundation, is dedicated to the issue of ocean health.

The sixth confirmed team out of a possible eight for the upcoming edition will amplify United Nations Environment’s ‚Clean Seas: Turn the Tide on Plastic‘ campaign throughout the eight months of the race, which covers 45,000 nautical miles of racing around the world, taking in 12 Host Cities on six continents.

Caffari’s ambition is to build a multi-national, 50-50 male/female squad, with the majority under 30 years of age. As part of the sustainability focus, the messages around diversity in age and gender will be strong themes of a campaign that in sporting terms may not start as a favourite, but could easily surprise on the water.

“I’m absolutely delighted to get the opportunity to sail for a cause I am so passionate about,” said Caffari, whose UK-based company will also run the project. “The Volvo Ocean Race is the ultimate test of a team in sport, and with the ambition to race with a youth-orientated international mixed crew, we are looking to make an impact on and off the water.”

Caffari’s team is already part-funded by the Mirpuri Foundation and Ocean Family Foundation (OFF), who join an increasing number of partners backing Volvo Ocean Race’s campaign on ocean health and sustainability.

The Mirpuri Foundation is a non-profit organisation set up by Portuguese businessman and philanthropist Paulo Mirpuri with the aim of making the world a better place for future generations.

In addition to raising awareness around the growing issue of ocean pollution, the partnership is part of the Mirpuri Foundation’s long-term ambition to build a new chapter in Portugal’s rich maritime history by creating a strong offshore legacy for future generations of Portuguese sailors. Caffari will include two Portuguese sailors in the team with a view to building a full Portuguese team in future editions of the iconic race.

“We feel immense pride to be backing this incredible ocean health campaign which we are sure will provide a great contribution to the health of our wonderful blue planet,” said Mirpuri.

“We must act immediately if the next generation is to inherit seas and oceans which resemble those that we knew as children.”

He continued: “In Portugal, we have long held a rich maritime heritage, and this youth-orientated campaign is a major step towards shaping the world-class future of Portuguese offshore racing. The Mirpuri Foundation looks forward to working closely with the Volvo Ocean Race to achieve that objective over the coming years.”

Alongside the Mirpuri Foundation, the aim of the Ocean Family Foundation is to promote awareness of the effects of pollution, the importance of bio diversity and the necessity for conservation of the world’s oceans.

“The Ocean Family Foundation is delighted to be supporting this exceptional campaign to support ocean conservation and clean-up,” said Peter Dubens, on behalf of the Ocean Family Foundation.

“Plastic pollution has emerged as one of the greatest challenges facing our globe, with plastic debris forecast to double over this decade, causing huge damage to our oceans as well as to humans.

“With her public profile as a British world record-holding athlete, Dee Caffari is the perfect leader to raise awareness of the need for urgent action.”

Caffari is an experienced round-the-world sailor who will return for a second consecutive edition, having competed on Team SCA in 2014-15. She is also notable for setting a landmark record in 2006, becoming the first woman to sail single-handed and non-stop the ‘wrong way’ around the world.

Then in 2009, she completed the Vendée Globe race and set a new record to become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, around the world in both directions.

“It’s an honour to represent this landmark campaign, and to lead the team on such a prestigious platform is exciting,” said Caffari. “Seeing the amount of plastic in the ocean is heartbreaking. We’re abusing our planet – and this campaign is about pushing people to proactively do something about it.

“We will be sailing with a youth-orientated team because the reality is, it’s going to be the next generations who inherit the mess that we’re making now. This is a major issue and we need to encourage this generation, and future generations, to step up.”

The Turn the Tide on Plastic boat will amplify the Volvo Ocean Race’s larger sustainability focus for 2017-18, and joins team AkzoNobel (Simeon Tienpont, Netherlands), Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier, France), MAPFRE (Xabi Fernández, Spain), Vestas 11th Hour Racing (Charlie Enright, USA) and Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag (David Witt, Australia) in the fleet for the 2017-18 edition.

The Volvo Ocean Race starts from Alicante 22 October and will stop at Lisbon, Cape Town, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Auckland, Itajaí, Newport, Cardiff and Gothenburg before a big finish in The Hague at the end of June 2018.

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About The Mirpuri Foundation

The Mirpuri Foundation is a non-profit organisation set up by Portuguese businessman Paulo Mirpuri with the aim of making the world a better place for future generations.

Mirpuri himself is no stranger to life offshore, or the Volvo Ocean Race. To raise awareness of the Foundation’s ‘Save The Ocean’ marine conservation campaign, he recently skippered the former Green Dragon Volvo Open 70 yacht – renamed Mirpuri Foundation – on a 2,300-mile passage from Cape Verde to Bermuda.

The six-day voyage was completed by an experienced 10-strong crew, sourced from seven European countries. Aside from marine conservation, the Mirpuri Foundation focuses its resources across many areas including aeronautical and medical education and research, wildlife conservation, social responsibility and performing arts.

Mirpuri is a highly successful investor, philanthropist and a passionate sailor who is also a qualified medical doctor and Airbus-qualified airline pilot.

For further information about the Mirpuri Foundation please email pr@mirpurifoundation.org

About Ocean Family Foundation

Ocean Family Foundation’s aim is to promote awareness of the effects of pollution, the importance of bio diversity and the necessity for conservation of the world’s oceans. Ocean Family Foundation is a group of likeminded families that have come together to support ocean conservation and clean up. For further information about Ocean Family Foundation please email hello@oceanfamilyfoundation.org or telephone +44 (0) 207 766 6900

 

Dee Caffari

Oceanracing Profisegler Dee Caffari

Dee Caffari/AVIVA MBE
2011 6th Barcelona World Race
2009 7th Transat J.Vabre
2008 6th Vendee Globe
2007 Transat J.Vabre
2007 ECOVER BtoB
11th Calais Round Britain
2005/06 Ost-West-Around
First Solo 175 Tage

17.06.2007
Record-breaking Hampshire solo sailor Dee Caffari was made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

She became the first woman to sail solo non-stop around the world against prevailing winds and currents in 2006.
The former PE teacher said: ‚I am delighted and stunned to have been granted this honour and am greatly looking forward to visiting the Palace later this year.
‚We have a great sailing heritage in the UK and I’m very proud to have been able to play my part in carrying this forward.
‚I hope I have inspired others to seize every opportunity and achieve their personal goals. I could not have achieved my goal without my fantastic support team and sponsor and am grateful for their continued commitment.‘
by Media

Die ehemalige Lehrerin Dee Caffari(34)will im Club der IMOCA-Profis mitsegeln. In eindrucksvoller Art hat sie den anspruchsvollen Kurs um die Welt von Ost nach West gemeistert – trotz extremer Wetterverhältnisse im Südozean. Jetzt ist sie in die Rennserie der Profis eingestiegen um sich für das Vendee Globe 2008/09 zu qualifizieren.
Solo-Around-Nonstop 2005/06
gegen Wind und Wellen in
178 Tg, 3h, 6min, 15sec

Sat, 2 Jun 2007
Caffari on start line in Calais Round Britain race

On Sunday 3 June 2007, Dee Caffari, the British woman who in May last year set the sailing world alight by achieving a ‘world first’ for solo circumnavigating the ‘wrong way’ around the world will embark on the first step in her next quest.

In taking her position on the start line of the Calais Round Britain race, Caffari will officially be joining the ranks of an elite class of ocean racing professionals participating on the IMOCA Open 60 circuit and is out to prove she is fast as well as tough.

Her entry into this race represents Caffari’s first big test. Her strategy is to use this and a series of other races to hone her skills in Open 60 racing, building up to taking part next year in sailing’s elite solo race, the Vendée Globe.

Dee Caffari said, ‚I’m both excited and nervous ahead of my first Open 60 race onboard Aviva. The boats are so fast and intense, with the race only a week long it’s going to be action packed all the way round. With help from my crew I will be learning what it is like to sail these boats at speed and fully powered up. I am sure it will be a very competitive race.‘
Setting her world ‘first’ last year Caffari showed skill, determination, endurance and resourcefulness battling up-wind against the elements for over 178 days. These qualities will hold her in good stead but she will also need to master the highly technical skills needed to succeed in the complex Open 60 class. From now on she will be pitted head-to-head against world-class skippers who have years of ocean racing behind them. Caffari will be experiencing the intensity of this demanding class for the first time racing around the coastline of Britain and Ireland.
Starting and finishing in Calais, the race is 1850 nautical miles around the British coastline featuring some of the world’s most technical waters with ever-changing weather conditions, tidal flows and adverse land effects. Extra vigilance is needed to keep a watchful eye out for shipping and other obstructions such as oil rigs in the North Sea, throughout this race.
There are 11 confirmed entries and the front runners are expected to take between six to seven days to complete the course. In a change from normal Open 60 racing the boats will be crewed by five people rather than solo or double-handed.
For this race Caffari’s full crew will be:
Dee Caffari – skipper of Aviva (Great Britain)
Nigel King – experienced yacht racing coach (Great Britain)
Liz Wardley – professional sailor on Figaro circuit (Papua New Guinea)
Simon Clarke – professional sailor and former boat captain of Hugo Boss (Great Britain)
Laurent Mahy – sail designer for North Sails and professional sailor (Belgium)
All have been carefully selected not just for their abilities but also to give Dee the opportunity to share their skills and fast-track her learning.
To follow Dee in her next quest, track her position in this race and read her diaries visit www.avivaoceanracing.com.
by Caroline Ayling