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Chips for key sectors, artificial intelligence, precision fermentation and innovations to protect natural capital are technology trends for 2025

2025-01-10T13:35:14+01:00December 13th, 2024|Automotive, Autonomous and professional robotics, Big Data, Food, ICT, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes, Sustainability|

Designing and manufacturing specific chips for key sectors of the economy is one of the technological trends set to shape 2025 says the scientific team at the Eurecat technology centre. They also predict that generative artificial intelligence will continue to grow in the coming year with disruptive applications and greater integration with technologies including [...]

BATTECH innovates in electric battery recycling and circular economy

2025-01-10T13:21:39+01:00November 27th, 2024|Automotive, Energy, Press Notes, Sustainability, WEEI|

BATTECH, the joint research unit run by the Eurecat technology centre and the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), is this week showcasing technological innovations at the Battery Innovation Days, hosted this year in Barcelona, to make headway in recycling and reusing electric batteries at the end of their service life. As a pacesetter [...]

Climate Resilience Centre teams up with UN-backed Global ONCE programme to combat climate change in coastal and marine areas

2024-12-24T09:52:18+01:00October 24th, 2024|Canvi Climàtic, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Climate Resilience Centre (CRC), coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, has signed a partnership agreement with the United Nations-backed Global Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (Global ONCE) research programme which cements it as an international player in innovative solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation in coastal and marine areas. This research programme is [...]

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 [...]

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