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Catalan firm Marina Textil partners with Eurecat to create a new fabric harnessing 88 percent of waste previously thrown away

2024-09-24T10:43:11+02:00August 5th, 2024|Consulting, Press Notes, Sustainability, Textile|

Catalan firm Marina Textil has partnered up with the Eurecat technology centre to roll out a circular economy project to generate a new fabric harnessing up to 88 percent of the waste that until now was thrown away during the company’s industrial process. Using this innovative technology, they estimate that up to 5,500 kg [...]

Eurecat coordinates European project promoting the use of alternative water resources to ensure water availability

2024-09-24T10:39:52+02:00July 30th, 2024|Aigua aire sols, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European RECREATE project, which on a €3.4 million budget is to evaluate new strategies for integrating alternative water resources into the water cycle such as reuse, desalination and rainwater harvesting with the aim of improving resilience in management and ensuring its availability in response to the impact [...]

Eurecat tests new technologies to ensure availability of strategic raw materials including lithium, magnesium, nickel and cobalt

2024-07-17T13:40:39+02:00June 3rd, 2024|Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre has tested new technologies to recover and valorise strategic raw materials including lithium, magnesium, nickel and cobalt from waste and by-products to help secure their supply, avert the environmental impact of their mining and support decarbonising industry by fostering the circular economy. Critical raw materials (CRM) are crucial to economic [...]

Test beds for construction companies to test smart materials in a diversity of climates

2024-07-17T13:32:56+02:00May 24th, 2024|Fires, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat Manresa technology centre is presenting as of today at the ExpoBages fair two test beds for the construction industry, where companies can test smart materials for façades and monitor them in real time in a diversity of climates, along with technologies for monitoring and improving indoor air quality. Eurecat is a member [...]

Eurecat drives rollout of innovative environmental technologies for smart resource use in businesses

2024-07-17T13:19:36+02:00May 14th, 2024|Aigua aire sols, Fires, Press Notes, Sustainability, WEEI|

This week at IFAT Munich, the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing the cutting-edge solutions and technologies it has developed for smart use of resources such as water and raw materials in businesses coupled with innovations which help unlock circularity, climate resilience, zero pollution and ecosystem stewardship. “Harnessing innovative environmental technologies will enable businesses to [...]

Artificial intelligence for reusing wastewater and its nutrients in agriculture

2024-07-17T13:14:56+02:00May 7th, 2024|Aigua aire sols, Autonomous and professional robotics, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the iRAIN project which is to develop an innovative water resource management system by researching new systems and technologies to safely reclaim and reuse wastewater and its nutrients for agricultural purposes. It will harness state-of-the-art hybrid tools which combine monitoring and artificial intelligence by merging data [...]

A new biogas purification technology to boost its utilization as an alternative energy

2024-07-10T13:42:39+02:00April 22nd, 2024|Aigua aire sols, Press Notes, Sustainability, WEEI|

The European LIFE Biogasnet project has validated a new biogas purification technology, which allows improving the quality of this resource produced in urban solid waste treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants, as well as reducing the carbon footprint of the cycle energy and promote the circular economy concept. Specifically, the solution "is based on [...]

Eurecat targets technological innovation for more efficient water use and reuse

2024-06-05T11:40:38+02:00March 20th, 2024|Aigua aire sols, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre is targeting technological innovation to cut water use while also stepping up the availability of water resources by harnessing solutions for optimising water use efficiency and driving reuse and desalination to lessen reliance on conventional water sources, especially during periods of prolonged drought such as the current one. Since 2015, [...]

VitiGEOSS smart platform drives sustainability in vineyard management

2024-03-13T11:33:06+01:00February 29th, 2024|Fires, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The European VitiGEOSS project has developed an innovative smart platform featuring digital tools for precision viticulture which drive more sustainable vineyard management and the crop’s resilience to climate change which the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona. “We have developed a single platform which farmers and other service [...]

New biodegradable bioplastics from agri-food waste for high added-value medical applications

2024-03-13T11:20:04+01:00February 22nd, 2024|Health, Plastic material, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The PHASAL project is fashioning new biodegradable bioplastics from agri-food waste for medical applications such as transdermal patches and suture kits which will minimise their environmental impact. Specifically, it is to develop new grades of biodegradable plastics (PHA) obtained from the recovery of organic waste, thus affording them advanced processability and biocompatibility properties, which [...]

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