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ResourceFull has a long-term vision to drop worldwide CO2 by 1%. To achieve its goals ResourceFull is currently involved in multiple European and/or Flemish research projects. Furthermore ResourceFull has been selected in 2019 by EIT Raw Materials as one of the 5 Start-Ups from Europe to participate in their Acceleration III program. We are in close collaboration with multiple research institutes such as KU Leuven, UGent, TU Delft and different metallurgical players such as Metallo, Boliden and Rusal. Furthermore ResourceFull is in contact with a large group of innovative architects and construction companies.

Interreg NWE URBCON

By-products for sustainable concrete in the urban environment.

URBCON reduces the use of raw materials and the CO2 emissions from construction and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure in cities.The URBCON project targets the use of concrete as a building material. With the focus on the metropolitan areas of Ghent, Rotterdam and Northern France, by-products such as metallurgical slags and incineration ashes are used as alternative raw materials for the production of concrete. Replacing primary raw materials with by-products could save an estimated 84 million tonnes of mineral building materials per year.

H2020 Nemo

Near-zero-waste recycling of low-grade sulphidic mining waste for critical-metal, mineral and construction raw-material production in a circular economy.

The success of the NEMO project will lead to the unrestricted supply of critical raw materials CRMs (Co, rare earths
and Mg), valuable metals (Cu, Ni, Zn, and Sc), industrial minerals (Na2SO4, K2SO4 and MgSO4) and construction
raw materials for cement and concrete production, originating from domestically available, but currently unexploited,
sulphidic mining waste, and in this way substantially reduce Europe’s dependence on the imports of these vital
raw materials.

H2020 RemovAl

Removing the waste streams from the primary Aluminum production in Europe.

he RemovAL project will combine, optimize and scale-up developed processing technologies for extracting base and critical metals from such industrial residues and valorising the remaining processing residues in the construction sector.

The ambition of RemovAL is straightforward: to overcome environmental issues and technological barriers related to aluminium industry, by combining and advancing existing technologies for the sustainable processing of BR, SPL and other by-products, generating revenue.

EIT Raw Materials WhISPER

Waterless Iron Silicate Production with Energy Recovery.

The aim of WhISPER (Waterless Iron Silicate Production with Energy Recovery) is to develop a new iron silicate produced with the atomisation technology while evaluating and demonstrating the new properties of the material for improved commercial applications.
The project led by Atlantic Copper, will enable an optimal use of raw materials within Europe and will contribute to European Commission’s current strategy on Circular Economy.

EIT Raw Materials RECOVER

Innovation in Motion: Red mud and Copper slag Valorisation in Engineered Products.

The general objective of this Upscaling project is to produce full-scale final inorganic polymer products, from Metallo copper slag and Aughinish red mud, at the respective companies’ sites, using a modular and mobile upscaling unit. The generated products need to deliver properties similar to or better than traditional market substitutes and will be evaluated in terms of properties (i.e. leaching, durability, fire resistance, …), to allow for their market uptake within 3 years after the project. Next to realizing the target of TRL 7 by the completion of the project, the on-site production of final products at Metallo and Aughinish plants and the related matchmaking events will contribute to the level of customer readiness by demonstrating its feasibility to local construction companies and policymakers, thereby providing a nucleus for industrial symbiosis.

SIM MaRes TOGETHER

TOGETHER aims to develop and produce environmentally friendly concrete building products with high chemical resistance for the agricultural and chemical industry. The products will incorporate secondary resources from Flemish industries.

SIM MaRes 3D2BGreen

3D2BGreen is a 3D concrete printing research project, set up by Ghent University, construction company BESIX, start-up ResourceFull and engineering company Witteveen+Bos. The research will focus on developing sustainable concrete mixtures suitable for the printing of breakwater units. The combined expertise of the project partners will result in new, innovative and more sustainable solutions in hydraulic engineering.

SIM MaRes DUSC

By incorporation of MFS-slag in concrete mixtures at high cement and/or aggregate replacement levels, DUSC strives for (i) maximum residue valorisation and avoidance of waste disposal, and (ii) more durable and sustainable reinforced concrete structures, with a low carbon footprint, high service life and good recyclability. MFS-slag based concrete (‘MFS-concrete’) is targeted which can be used as ready-mix concrete for structural applications, such as beams, columns and slabs of buildings and infrastructure.

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The RECOVER and WhiISPER project have received funding from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, under the Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programma for Research and Innovation

The research leading to these results has been performed within the REMOVAL project and received funding from the European Community’s Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020/2014-2020) under grant agreement n° 776469.

The research leading to these results has been performed within the NEMO project and received funding from the European Community’s Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020/2014-2020) under grant agreement n° 776846.

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