SITECO is a SME located in Vitoria-Gasteiz with more than 25 years of experience in the custom design of ticketing and collection machines, with commercial implementation throughout the country. These are essential machines in very different end-customer service...
Innovation Using Waste
LEHORTUTA: application of a new process to separate complex plastic scrap to recover plastics and metals.
The industrial activity of MASER (Trapagaran, Bizkaia) focuses on processing the plastic mixture from the recycling of electrical cable waste by applying wet and dry separation processes to recover PVC, PE and copper fractions. The unique characteristics of MASER's...
The ATOMCESS project begins, aimed at advanced component repair through additive manufacturing.
The ATOMCESS project has recently begun, led by WINOA IBERICA, a company with great experience in industrial processes of atomizing steel powder from selected scrap. The project seeks to develop new raw materials for the advanced repair of components through additive...
ProTIER: Introduction of Circular Economy protocols in an automotive company TIER1.
AURIA SOLUTIONS VITORIA, the project's leading company, is dedicated to manufacturing flooring and acoustic and thermal insulation for the automotive industry at its plant in Jundiz (Vitoria-Gasteiz). AURIA's two main products are the floors (front and rear) and the...
EcoService: Creation of a manufacturing hub and innovative introduction of sustainable plastics in the Basque industry.
Due to the introduction of the European Commission's requirement to use at least a certain percentage of recycled plastic in products from sectors such as the automotive sector, the demand for this type of material has grown exponentially. Today there is not enough...
Transformation of mixed plastic packaging waste from Urban Solid Waste into new materials.
The rejection of municipal waste management facilities is formed by a heterogeneous mixture of diverse materials, including plastic packaging waste. However, although these have considerable potential for valorization through recycling or as fuel for cement kilns,...
RecoverAl: Recovery of aluminium and aluminium alloy parts in end-of-life vehicles (ELVs).
Aluminium and aluminium alloy parts are increasingly being incorporated into vehicles. The current methods used to break end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) do not allow the separation of these parts, which end up being shredded, together with the steel, plastic and other...
Economic and fiscal incentives to promote plastic waste recycling in a Spanish region.
Many plastics, mainly the ones used in packaging, are not recovered due to the low cost of landfilling them or the lack of responsibility of some companies. Now, this scenario is being improved because new legislation has come into force, which prohibits landfilling...
CIRC4Life: New business models based on the circular economy.
“ CIRC4Life : A circular economy approach for lifecycles of products and services” is a project to create an implement new business models based on the circular economy, in order to develop sustainable products and services throughout their value and supply...
Koala: Improving sign and printing waste management by applying circular economy strategies.
Koala Rotulación is a business based on the Artegoiti industrial state in Basauri (Bizkaia) working in the digital sign and printing sector. With the Koala project, the company has become involved in managing the waste created in its sign and print processes by...