Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology request
- POD Reference
- TRBE20231116005
- Term of Validity
- 16 November 2023 - 15 November 2024
- Company's Country
- Belgium
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistanceResearch and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- FranceNetherlandsGermanyLuxembourgIrelandSpainPortugalItalyUnited KingdomSwitzerlandDenmarkSwedenNorwayPolandAustriaCzechiaSlovakiaSloveniaCroatiaEstoniaLatviaLithuania
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General information
- Short Summary
- The SME is a certified specialist in the processing & recycling of metal, electrical, electronic & computer waste. It provides collection, dismantling, crushing & recovery services. The SME recycles plastic (PVC) waste from cables, but these granules have a high phtalate content, making them hazardous waste. Under REACH, their use is regulated but they can be recycled into new products provided they will be used outdoors. The SME is looking for partners to develop such solutions together.
- Full Description
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The Belgian SME is a certified specialist in the processing and recycling of metal, electrical, electronic and computer waste. With more than twenty years’ experience in the comprehensive and integrated management of end-of-life capital and consumer goods for businesses and communities, this family company provides collection, dismantling, crushing and recovery services.
The company developed an innovative solution to recycle plastic (PVC) waste from electronic cables intro PVC granules. They received a regional award in January 2023 for this project. However, these PVC granules have a high phtalate content, making them “hazardous waste”. Under REACH, their use is regulated and strictly limited: they can only be recycled into new products provided these are products for outdoors use.
The SME is therefore looking for partners to find and develop such outdoor-use new products solutions together. - Advantages and Innovations
- The company developed an innovative solution to recycle plastic (PVC) waste from electric and electronic cables into PVC granules. The PVC granules are cleaned for impurities what makes them able to be used for extrusion as for molding and that without additives. They can deliver the material in granule size but also in micronised. They received a regional award in January 2023 for this project.
- Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The SME is therefore looking for partners with expertise or needs in using such phtalate contaminated PVC granules to reuse them into outdoor-use new products. They are open for western Europe partners (small and big) as a client of their material but also universities and research centers to study together and improve the quality of material and create a bigger range of product possibilities.
They also have an existing partner for the production of different pieces they have already created with their plastic and that are already on the market. With this partner, they can design pieces for their prospective clients. - Type and Size of Partner
- Big companyR&D InstitutionUniversitySME 11-49SME 50 - 249SME <=10Other
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistanceResearch and development cooperation agreement
Call details
- Coordinator required
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Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 10003004 - Recycling, Recovery
- Market keywords
- 08004002 - Chemical and solid material recycling08004004 - Other pollution and recycling related
- Sector Groups Involved
- Energy-Intensive Industries
- Targeted countries
- FranceNetherlandsGermanyLuxembourgIrelandSpainPortugalItalyUnited KingdomSwitzerlandDenmarkSwedenNorwayPolandAustriaCzechiaSlovakiaSloveniaCroatiaEstoniaLatviaLithuania