1. Pilot and market replication projects
"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, Podgorica - Montenegro Ph/fax url:

2. Competitivness and Innovation Framework Programme
CIP
Competitivness and Innovation Framework Programme
(3,6 billion €)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP)
(60% of total CIP budget)
Information and Communication Technology Policy Support Programme (ICT-PSP)
Intelligent Energy-Europe 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

3. Eco-innovation in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP)
Financial
instruments
Network
of actors
Pilot and market
replication projects

4. Pilot and market replication projects call 2008
First Application and Market replication projects ~ €195 million ( )
Committed budget for call 2008 was € million
44 out of 134 project proposals selected (majority recycling projects)
75% SMEs among participants75%
~180 partners in total
26 countries involved

5. NUMIX
Title: High performance lightweight aggregate for concrete from recycling of plastic waste
Acronym: NUMIX
Start: 1 July End: 30 June 2012
Budget: €
Centro Riciclo Vedelago
- Treviso -
Company operating in the field of plastic recycling
SGI Studio Galli Ingegneria SpA
Padova –
Engineering company operating in the sectors: water, environment, energy, civil engineering and transport
DFS Montenegro Engineering
Podgorica –
Engineering company operating in sectors: infrastructure, energy and environment
ACCIONA INFRAESTRUCTURAS S.A
Madrid –
European leader in construction and civil infrastructure
CETMA
Brindisi –
Research Center

6. II To develop a sizeable European market.
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:
II To develop a sizeable European market.
1. expanded granules
to be used as aggregate for lightened structural and non-structural concrete, substituting the expanded clay;
2. densified flakes
to be used as aggregate for mortar and as raw material for product 1.

7. Make available to construction industry a reliable, innovative,
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.

8. Technical description
scrap resulting from the sorting of
recycled plastics
densified flakes
expanded granules
Blowing agent: Gypsum powder
Technology for the production of expanded granules
Extrusion/foaming process patented by CETMA.
Raw materials:
-scrap resulting from the sorting of recycled plastics (subject to the same process as product 2)
-blowing agent: gypsum powder (by-product of sulphur anhydride treatment in the emission of power plants)
Technology for the production of densified flakes
It is similar to the one traditionally used in the field of plastic recycling.
The innovation consists in the use as raw material of the scrap resulting from the selection of urban solid waste, mixed with industrial plastic waste.

9. Products-Target groups scrap resulting from the sorting of
Raw
material
scrap resulting from the sorting of
recycled plastics
Industries operating in
the field of plastic
recycling
Semi-finished
products
densified flakes
expanded granules
Industries operating in
the field of concrete
manufacturing
mortar
lightened concrete
Finished
products
e.g.: thermal/sound
insulation concrete
screed, prefabricated
construction
End-user of the
building product
e.g.:protective
finishing layer

10. Risks Technical risks Economic risks
High variability in the morphology and/or assortment of the recycled waste plastics
Incompatibility between the new lightweight aggregate and the traditional aggregate (e.g. sand) or cement
Economic risks
The cost associated with the new lightweight aggregate could be prohibitive as compared with conventional lightweight aggregate for concrete such as expanded clay.
The final cost of the raw material will also depend on national government subsidies available for the plastic recycling industry

11. Potential market
Production of concrete in industrialised countries: 1.5 – 3 tons per capita

12. Market barriers Higher material and production cost
Lack of sufficient valid and
generally accepted
guidelines, rules and
standards
Common scepticism related
to new products properties,
such as design/structural
performance and durability

13. Thank you for your attention!