"NUMIX": lightweight aggregate for
concrete from recycling of plastic waste
CIP Eco-Innovation
Pilot and market replication projects
Call 2008
Ivana Glisevic
Project manager
DFS (Montenegro) Engineering d.o.o.
ul. Moskovska 89, 81000 Podgorica - Montenegro
Ph/fax. 00382 20 228 501
url: www.dfs-engineering.com
e-mail: ivana.glisevic@dfs-engineering.com
CIP
Competitivness and Innovation Framework Programme
2007- 2013 (3,6 billion €)
Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Programme
(EIP)
(60% of total CIP budget)
Information and
Communication Technology
Policy Support Programme
(ICT-PSP)
Intelligent EnergyEurope Programme
(IEE)
Financial instruments
Enterprise Europe Network
Four main
instruments
Innovation projects and eco-innovation first
application and market replication projects
Policy analyses, development and coordination
Eco-innovation
Eco-innovation in the Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Programme (EIP)
Financial
instruments
Network
of actors
Pilot and market
replication projects
Pilot and market
replication projects
call 2008
• First Application and Market replication projects ~ €195 million (20082013)
• Committed budget for call 2008 was € 27.85 million
• 44 out of 134 project proposals selected (majority recycling projects)
• 75% SMEs among participants75%
• ~180 partners in total
• 26 countries involved
NUMIX
Title: High performance lightweight aggregate for concrete from recycling of plastic waste
Acronym: NUMIX
Start: 1 July 2009 - End: 30 June 2012
Budget: 1.275.556 €
Centro Riciclo Vedelago
- Treviso Company operating in the field of
plastic recycling
SGI Studio Galli
Ingegneria SpA
DFS Montenegro
Engineering
-Padova –
-Podgorica –
Engineering company operating in
the sectors: water, environment,
energy, civil engineering and
transport
ACCIONA
INFRAESTRUCTURAS S.A
-Madrid –
European leader in construction
and civil infrastructure
Engineering company
operating in sectors:
infrastructure, energy and
environment
CETMA
-Brindisi –
Research Center
Project objectives
I
To promote an industrial process based on using the scrap resulting from the
sorting of recycled plastics (from both solid urban and
industrial/craftmade/commercial waste), to produce:
1. expanded granules
to be used as aggregate for lightened structural and nonstructural concrete, substituting the expanded clay;
2. densified flakes
to be used as aggregate for mortar and as raw material for
product 1.
II
To develop a sizeable European market.
Expected results
Benefit the environment by reducing the percentage of scrap resulting
from the sorting of recycled plastics destined to incineration.
Make available to construction industry a reliable, innovative,
environmentally friendly, economically viable and competitive alternative
for lightweight concrete and mortar production.
Create partnerships among European industries, involving industry
operating in the field of:
recycled plastic, which will be made able to produce the expanded
granules,
concrete manufacturing, which will produce lightened concrete and
mortar containing the innovative aggregates,
concrete manufacturing, end-user of the building product containing the
innovative aggregates.
Market barriers
Lack of sufficient valid and
generally accepted
guidelines, rules and
standards
Higher material and
production cost
Common scepticism related
to new products properties,
such as design/structural
performance and durability
Thank you
for your attention!
ivana.glisevic@dfs-engineering.com