- Producing green composite sinks and worktops by reusing offcuts and production wasteone of Delta sinks
- Delta presents the LIFE GREEN COMPOSITE project to the 2022 beneficiaries of the LIFE programme!
- Project Objective
- How the Project Objective will be Achieved
- New Industrial Plants
- Innovations
- Interviews on recovery and circular economy
- Downloadable material
- Life Green Composite Project News
- Picchio News published a press release on the LIFE GREEN COMPOSITE project 'The Plados-Delta group will be the first company in the world to produce a range of 'green' sinks'
Project co-funded by the European Unione LIFE21-ENV-IT-LIFE GREEN COMPOSITE
PROJECT DURATION: Start 01/08/22 - End 31/07/25
Coordinating Beneficiary: DELTA Srl
Associated Beneficiary: GEES RECYCLING Srl
Project location: Montelupone - Montecassiano (Macerata / Pordenone) Italy
On 1 August 2022 Delta of Plados Telma group started the LIFE project in cooperationone with Gees Recycling, a project co-funded at 60% by the European Commission.
The project will run for three years, ending on 31 July 2025.
Producing green composite sinks and worktops by reusing offcuts and production wasteone of Delta sinks
The productionone of sinks involves the landfilling of large quantities of polymer-contaminated mineral waste. This project aims to demonstrate that mineral composite sinks can be produced on a pilot and industrial scale by reusing acrylic mineral composite waste and producing these composites from secondary raw materials. The process, which will include new products, should confirm that all sink waste can be recycled. We will promote our GREEN composites production line to consumers and introduce a new product range to the market.
Project contact: Dr. Maria Savina Pianesi e-mail: [email protected]
Delta presents the Life GREEN COMPOSITE project
to the 2022 beneficiaries of the LIFE programme!
You can download the Powerpoint of presentazione.
Project Objective
New green composites: GREEN WORKTOP and GREEN KITCHEN SINKS
The project will exploit the industrial symbiosis between Plados Telma (Coordinator) and Gees Recycling to produce green kitchen sinks and worktops: acrylic mineral composites made from recycled production waste and tracked in a replicable circular value chain
How the Project Objective will be Achieved
Grinding one composite sink waste and scraps and production GREEN
Using new milling and coating technologies, new product design and pre-polymerisation, new product design and pre-polymerisation, reuse of production waste from these sinks to improve the performance of recycled composite tops and panels.
WORK PACKAGE defined to achieve objectives:
Work Package No | Work Package name | Lead Beneficiary |
WP1 | Project management and coordination | 1-DELTA SRL |
WP2 | Recovery of mineral materials from waste sinks and preparation of secondary raw materials | 1 - DELTA SRL |
WP3 | Development of green kitchen tops that include recovered Delta sinks waste | 2 - GEES |
WP4 | Development of green sinks: new formulations, moulding trials and characterisation of end products | 1 - DELTA SRL |
WP5 | Communication and Dissemination of results, networking | 1 - DELTA SRL |
WP6 | Sustainability, Replication and Exploitation of Results | 1 - DELTA SRL |
WP7 | Performance indicators and impact monitoring and evaluation | 1 - DELTA SRL |
Pilot and industrial scale trials will be conducted by recovering mineral materials from waste sinks, which will become secondary raw materials to develop green kitchen countertops and green sinks.
New Industrial Plants
A new milling plant will be set up, which will carry out the volumetric reduction of offcuts and rejects from sinks to obtain the secondary raw material.
A green plant will be installed, consisting of a recovery resin storage tank and reactors for convertingone the recovery resin into recovery syrup.
Recovery charges for new dispersions (r-quartz and r-granulates)
Innovations
DELTA: New formulations with secondary raw materials, obtaining GREEN sinks;
GEES: New work tops with GREEN formulas using secondary raw materials;
Gees is pursuing the mechanical recycling of high-density composites. Initial tests were carried out on the following composizione:
? 75% of r-granulates (ground DELTA composite sinks);
? 20% of glass fibre waste;
? 5% of bonding agent.
The density of the first campione GREEN No. 1 panel is 1250 kg/m3
Initial tests are showing good fire behaviour potential of recycled composites. The first GREEN fieldsone panel No. 1 showed no dripping, no post-combustionone and no perforationone after 2 minutes of feedingone a propane flame at a distance of 10 cm
Impacts
Recycling the 100% of waste and scrap from the Plados Telma group to enable the productionone and commercialisationone of a green sink production line made entirely from recycled materials.
Launching both solid-colour and granite-effect composite worktops on the market with a new concept productone with improved performance, made entirely from recycled materials.
LIFE21-ENV-IT-LIFE GREEN COMPOSITE
Interviews on recovery and circular economy
Downloadable material
Life Green Composite project poster
Life Green Composite Project Brochure
Life Green Composite Project News
The project officially starts after the Grant Agreement is signed by Plados Delta and the European Comissione at the end of July 2022
Presented the official logo of the Life Green Composite project!
The Life Green Composite project brochure has been created. It contains a graphic representation of the project structure that follows the principles of the circular economy, immediately attractingone attention.
Project Notice Board posted at the main entrance of the Delta site in Montecassiano (MC) and Montelupone (MC) and at the main entrance of the GEES site in Aviano (PN). The Notice Board shows the key informaions of the project in a visually attractive graphic, which emphasises the circular economy structure of the project activities.
Picchio News published a press release on the LIFE GREEN COMPOSITE project 'The Plados-Delta group will be the first company in the world to produce a range of 'green' sinks'
A press release on the LIFE GREEN COMPOSITE project published in Cronache Maceratesi "The first 'green' kitchen sink is born in the Macerata area'.