Giovanardi - Sara Selmin
Raytent is a green economy project based on the recycling of acrylic fabric deriving from the awning industry, designed to create high quality yarns for the world of furnishing, sun protection, fashion and industry.
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PVC Upcycling - reclaiming PVC, copper and aluminium from decommissioned electric cables
REDEL is an energy provider in Italy. Its activities comprises decommissioning outdated energy installations (de-risking), generating a vast amount of discarded power cables. The PVC Upcycling project aims to initiate a circular model for reclaiming resources by:
- de-manufacturing: recovering the PVC of electric cables coming from decommissioned energy plants;
- re-manufacturing: recycling of the same PVC in products with low environmental impact.
Along with PVC, copper and aluminium are also reclaimed and turned into metal granules for new production purposes.
Raytent: high-quality yarns and fabrics made from solar tents industry cut-offs
Giovanardi recycles technical acrylic textiles from solar protection industry, to create the Raytent line of high-quality yarns and fabrics.
Greenrail - Dawid Janik
Greenrail is an Italian company that has developed an innovative and sustainable railway sleeper, offering excellent technical, environmental and economical features for the railway sector. The technology developed by Greenrail allows the production of railway sleepers with secondary raw materials, using a blend of rubber collected from ELTs (End of Life Tyres) and plastic from urban waste.
The company handles the whole process of design, prototyping and testing of the products, collaborating with primary research centres and industrial partners.
Saint Francis of Assisi: rendering a religious community sustainable and circular
Fra’ Sole is a sustainability project involving the monumental complex of Saint Francis of Assisi and its nearby areas, which has resulted in the elimination of disposable products, infrastructure for rainwater reuse and a 20% reduction in waste overall.
Greenrail: innovative & eco-sustainable railway sleepers
Greenrail sleepers consist of an outer cover made of a blend of ELTs and recycled plastic, and an inner core of pre-stressed, reinforced concrete.
Mater‐Biotech: regenerating an industrial site for the production of bio-butanediol
Mater-Biotech is one of four subsidiary companies owned by Novamont in Italy, responding to its philosophy of starting out from local areas and developing new proprietary technologies to rejuvenate industrial sites that have been decommissioned or are no longer competitive.
Opened in 2016, Mater-Biotech is the first industrial scale plant for the production of 1,4 BDO butanediol directly from sugars. In this facility Novamont has developed a biotechnological platform which takes sugars and transforms them into bio-butanediol through the action of suitably engineered e.coli type bacteria, using a technology developed by Genomatica, the California-based leader in the field of bioengineering.
Mater‐Biotech
Mater-Biotech - the first world industrial plant for the production of biobutanediol from renewable sources
Mater‐Biotech - the world’s first dedicated plant able to produce butanediol (BDO) from renewable raw materials.
Ultra thin White Topping: durable and resource-efficient solution for asphalt roads
Ultra Thin White Topping is a road hardening innovation, applied to pilot projects in Frysland and Overijssel by Schagen Infra BV. To replace damaged asphalt sustainably, the company renovated the degenerated road surface using a thin layer of cement with polyseter fibers mixed in, thus reducing resource consumption and enabling full material recovery at end-of-life stage.