Lead partner & project coordinator
UniPD – Polymer Engineering Group (PEG)
Dating back to 1222, the University of Padova (UNIPD) is one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious seats of learning. UNIPD offers its 60,000 students 32 departments, 34 doctoral degree schools and 44 research and service centres across the spectrum of sciences, medicine, social sciences and humanities, with about 2,300 professors and researchers employed. The work will be carried out at the Department of Industrial Engineering which provides scientific and technical expertise in all fields of Industrial Engineering. The research group involved in the project (PEG) belongs mainly to Chemical and Process Engineering unit and has particular expertise in the field of polymer formulation development and characterization
UniPD will coordinate the project and will be directly involved in the formulation, preparation and testing of the fire retarded polymers up to the pilot plant scale
Partners
UniSMART
Unismart is the techtransfer company of the University of Padova responsabile for commercializing its technologies and inventions, protected by over 180 National and international patents. Unismart exploit the skills, resources and facilities of the University’s research groups to set up multidisciplinary research projects commissioned by innovation-seeking companies.
UniSMART will provide support to UniPD in the development of the intellectual property and go-to-market strategy.
RI.SE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB (former SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden AB) is a state owned company under the Ministry of Industry. RISE comprises the national institutes for technical evaluation, research, testing, certification, metrology and calibration and works closely with large and small companies, universities, institutes of technology and other organisations. RISE’s activities cover a wide technical range, with about 30 technology areas organised in six inter-connected technical divisions. RISE has approximately 2300 personnel who base their service on competence, efficiency, impartiality and international acceptance. RISES’s headquarters are located in Gothenburg on the West Coast of Sweden.
RISE will provide expertise in the development of environmental screening tools based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
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CRF (Centro Ricerche Fiat)
Centro Ricerche FIAT (CRF) is an industrial research organisation providing R&D and innovation services for the different companies of the FIAT Group and its automotive suppliers. The core competence of CRF is centred on land transportation and advanced technologies, materials and processes. CRF is equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories for the research, engineering, and testing of material, processes, and technologies, from long term research up to materials and processes validation and standardization, capable to guarantee a prompt transfer to the sectorial product design functions.
CRF will contribute to the project in the go-to-market strategy, developing the prototypes and evaluating their suitability in operational environment
IRIS Ambiente
IRIS Ambiente is an italian company specialized in the processing Bottom ashes coming from the incinerators. It is owner of an italian patent relative to the their treatment through a mechanical treatment using state-of-the-art technologies. The minerals recovered at the end of their process find a second life (building and construction sectors) and can replace natural raw materials for sustainable development by becoming part of the circular economy. 
IRIS Ambiente will be involved in the WAPOL project as partner which has the know-how about treating haeavy ashes coming from municipal solid waste incineration to be employed as filler for plastic materials and therefore will be the supplier of bottom ashes.
VELAWORKS
VELAWORKS is a Slovak start-up company that is studying the reusing of materials coming from: waste, recycling, second life economy. It is the owner of the international trade mark COSMOS Fenix® and of the international patent related to the reuse of Fly Ashes coming from Municipal Solid Waste Incineration through the inertisation of heavy metals. It is also winner of 2 LIFE+ funds, 1 Horizon, 1 KAVA and “EIT-Raw Materials Best business idea 2017”.
VELAWORKS will be involved in the WAPOL project as partner which has the know-how about reusing fly ashes to give the flammability resistance properties to polymers that can be used in the automotive sector. For this reason it will be the supplier of fly ashes with the possiblity to modify treatment process in order to provide optimal characteristics for fire retardant formulations.
