Students from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) converge at the Technological Innovation Park with the purpose of developing the Automation System for the Process of Recycling Plastic Material for 3D Modeling and Printing, this was made known by José Ramón López Arellano, who explained that such system consists on a printer that functions with recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is a strong material, of light weight and clear polyester.

The Director of the PIT-UAS indicated that these youths, whose idea is to generate this print, are current students of the degree in Electronics, from the Faculty of Physical-Mathematical Sciences (FCFM, Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas), and from the Faculty of Chemical-Biological Sciences (FCQB, Facultad de Ciencias Químico-Biológicas).

The university researcher detailed that this project also includes the raw material generation: “We’d be talking about the generation of two machines, one to produce the raw material and the other, the printed final prototype”.

By the end of the year, he said, it is planned to have the prototypes of these two machines, which would be in the conditions of waiting for some organism’s call, like the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), to get the resources and to perfect such models.

In this sense, López Arellano commented that the students are working during their free time on expressing the idea on paper, in order to have an updated sketch by the time calls from CONACyT or other organisms begin; nevertheless, he explained, there’s also work being done in the PIT-UAS’ laboratories for the modeling of such prototypes.

The development of 3D techniques of print is an incipient area of the market, as well as the technological development of different methods, ways and complements in the matter, concluded José Ramón López Arellano.

Source: Direction of Communications UAS. http://dcs.uas.edu.mx/index.php?sec=3&op=2&tipo=i&id_noticia=5797. Translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).