New packing and insulating materials from waste and rejected products

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: BRST950065

Project closed

Start date 15 December 1995

End date 29 January 1997

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Re.Co.Pak. Srl
Italy

Objective

The project aims to develop new rigid, semirigid and elastic packing and insulating materials suitable to substitute traditional petrol base materials by recycling, by means of physical/mechanical treatment, waste plastic and rubber end-life products coming from different industrial processes (such as the automotive industry or the shoe industry). The final result, will eventually consist in:
- Substitution of actually used products with others coming from wastes of products made of petrol or of other natural resources with strong impact on pollution reduction;
- Reduction of landfill disposal of wastes;
- Reduction of energy consumption and environmental impact (gas, CFC etc.)
- Reduction of the overall costs of transport, by using packagings with better properties (reduced volume); reduction of damages (thus, reduced number of scrap products), overall increase in efficiency. Initial experience made on some kinds of end-life products showed the efficiency of such materials with regard to the packing properties (mechanical resistance) but also to the insulating (thermal and acoustic) characteristics. Further researches and developments are envisaged to improve these promising characteristics and to extend the recycling process, by using new kind of wastes and producing new materials and products for different sectors of application

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › chemical sciences › organic chemistry › hydrocarbons
• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › automotive engineering
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › environmental sciences › pollution
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › waste management › waste treatment processes

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Programme(s)

• FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0102 - Development of clean production technologies

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

EAW - Exploratory awards

Coordinator

Re.Co.Pak. Srl

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Uruguay 10 ; 35127 Padova ; Italy
• Total cost: No data