Circular economy and sustainability
CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN TRACTOR SECTORS IN THE VALENCIA REGION (TRANSPORT/AUTOMOTIVE, FOOTWEAR, TEXTILE AND TOY SECTORS)
CIRCULAR ECONOMY 2.0
Motivation
This initiative arose as a result of further progress in the results obtained in the “CIRCULAR INDUSTRY CV” project (2020-2021), during which a pilot plant was designed, built and fine-tuned to treat multicomposition waste from the footwear, toy and textile sectors. In addition, different industrial symbiosis studies were carried out (intra and intersectorial), to test technologies (injection, 3D printing, glue blender…) to process the fractions of materials obtained from the treatment of the pilot plant and obtain prototypes for each of the sectors involved.
Objectives
• Validation of circular economy models between productive sectors of the Valencian Community creating symbiosis between intrasectoral and intersectoral industries.
• Analysis of those technologies that allow optimization in the classification and recycling of the “CIRCULAR INDUSTRY” pilot plant for multi-composition and multi-material products with the ultimate goal that the effluents of recovered materials are as close as possible to the virgin raw materials available in the world market.
• Performance of individualized studies to assess the potential for circularity of products and waste among the affected sectors, creating validated models.
Expected results
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New circular economy models that interrelate the four sectors involved (automotive/transport, footwear, textile and toy), and enable the different multi-composition materials obtained from the processing of waste from these sectors to be used.
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Obtaining higher quality materials that facilitate their subsequent use, through the optimization of the CIRCULAR INDUSTRY CV demonstrator.
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Circularity studies to improve synergies between the sectors involved, giving added strength to the cohesion of the territory and its own interrelation, helping to promote the creation of a sustainable economic model.
Grant number: IMDEEA/2022/39
Amount: 160.891,67 €
Entity: IVACE
Period of execution: May 2022 – June 2023
Status: In progress
This project is funded by the Conselleria d’Economia Sostenible, Sectors Productius, Comerç i Treball de la Generalitat Valenciana, through IVACE, and is co funded by ERDF from the European Commission within the framework of the Operational Programme FEDER for the Comunitat Valenciana 2021-2027.
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R&D AREAS
New high-performance functionalised materials
Circular economy and sustainability
Advanced manufacturing, smart textiles and digitalisation
High value-added solutions for strategic markets
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