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.

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

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

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

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Downloadable material

Life Green Composite project poster

Life Green Composite Project Brochure