Fusion Pole
The FusionPole project aims at reusing healthy wood from wooden telecommunications posts, withdrawn from service, in the manufacture of composite posts to produce innovative and configurable and with durability, mechanical properties and fire resistance superior to the common wooden pole.
Use of poles taken out of service
The support of airlines for telecommunications in Portugal is practically made with the exclusive use of maritime pine wood poles. It is a material of natural origin, of quality with a very low level of processing, which guarantees low costs in economic terms, energy and environmental impacts and existed in large quantities until the fires of 2017. It is therefore an important material in a policy of sustainable development.
Goals
The aim of this project is to define a new product, a composite wooden pole, which will allow us to maintain and eventually increase the existing market share for wooden poles in telecommunications. This new product should present levels of overall mechanical, fire and durability performance superior to current wooden poles.
- Project Name: FusionPole - Reuse of Maritime Pine Poles
- Project: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039940
- Main Objective: Development of composite poles using Pinus pinaster poles taken out of service
- Approved Investment Amount: €475,004.59
- Total Support: €282,542.77
- Intervention Region: Centre
- Location: Monte Redondo, Leiria
- Beneficiary Entities: University of Coimbra, LNEC - National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, SerQ - Forest Innovation and Competence Center
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