Circular economy: the case of the ecological production of "terrazzo" tiles, Questions & Answers
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The main obstacles to the spread of Eco Life Tiles tiles are the following:
▪ absence in the local area of an adequate network of collection of the material of construction and
demolition and, consequently, the absence of a chain of secondary materials recoverable from recycling;
▪ consum...
Circular economy: the case of the ecological production of "terrazzo" tiles, Questions & Answers
F. Ansaloni, V. Grandinetti, E. Paris,
Circular economy: reducing waste generation from industrial sources and /or reducing hazardousness of
industrial waste
On 27/28.06.2016 in Milan, Italy
The existing situation (state-of-play)
The product of the research project: The Eco Tiles project. Terrazzo tiles (graniglia) for flooring for
indoor and outdoor
The Eco Tiles project fits well within the objectives of the life topic. It fosters the reuse/recycling of high
quantities of Construction & Demolition Waste CDW 2016 LIFE ERE:
▪ today one of the biggest volumes of waste discarded in Europe. Construction and demolition are among the
sectors that generate higher volumes of waste in Europe. Each year it produces one ton per capita, or 500
million tons in the EU EC 2015;
▪ and also products of energy-intensive processes needed to fire/treat the original raw materials.
The Life Eco Tiles project will demonstrate the possibility to produce recycled (up to nearly 70%)
high-grade pre-casted cement-based products (Terrazzo tiles) using recycled glass (approximately 50-60%
of total weight) from urban and industrial waste, ceramic and Construction & Demolition Waste (CDW)
ECOTILES 2016.
Main innovations are related to the adding of CDW and/or construction waste precursors (up to 15%
weight of the tile) to the traditional commercially available cement with the purpose to reduce cement intake
although maintaining the properties ECOTILES 2016 b
Production effects of Eco Life Tiles:
▪ with the application of a low-energy process, the production will have a substantial less environmental
impact than for traditional tiles:
It allows for a 20% reduction in energy consumption (compared to state of the art) for the production
of the recycled Terrazzo tiles.
▪ facilitate the recycling of:
- up to 450 t/year of CDW and construction materials scrap;
- and 3 000 t/year of glass waste.
with a potential of around 1 000 times more in Europe if applied to a share of all pre-casted products;
▪ Eco Life Tiles improves the value of the glass waste increasing its range of application into high-grade
final products, and potentially use of much larger volumes of recycled materials;
▪ Eco Life Tiles responds to the need of a much higher resource efficiency in the industrial sector By
utilizing part of the production scraps and re-inserting them in the production cycle.
The Grandinetti company is a partner of the research project Life Eco Tiles and was established at the
beginning in the year nineteen (1900) in San Severino Marche (Italy).
Grandinetti is leader in the production of the:
▪ traditional and artistic terrazzo tiles (traditional marble chip tiles);
▪ and cement tiles.
The century-old experience combined with a natural talent for innovation makes Grandinetti a leading
company in Italy for the production of conglomerates and coverings.
The expected results of Life Eco Tiles project are:
▪ design, realize, fine-tune and optimize a series of three versions of industrial pre-casted products (Terrazzo
tiles) with up to 70% content of recycled CDW, building materials (mainly ceramics) and glass waste;
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, ▪ adapt and engineer a low-energy industrial process able to manufacture the recycled Terrazzo tiles at
industrial scale, and consuming 20% less than traditional processes.
I. What are the success factors to replicate and transfer your technology or methodology during or after the
project end? What are the main barriers of replication and transferability?
The main obstacles to the spread of Eco Life Tiles tiles are the following:
▪ absence in the local area of an adequate network of collection of the material of construction and
demolition and, consequently, the absence of a chain of secondary materials recoverable from recycling;
▪ consumers' lack of knowledge about the high environmental sustainability characteristics of the tiles Eco
Life Tiles Production System.
I. What are the success factors to replicate and transfer your technology or methodology during or after the
project end? What are the main barriers of replication and transferability?
1. Has your methodology/process/technology a high potential for replication/market uptake in your own
country and/or other EU-countries? How did you measure/assess the potential?
Our production process can be replicated on a national and European level because the technology used is
common, there are in fact specific and / or important technical innovations for the production of
ECOTILES.
The potential replication is high, also in consideration of the fact that all firms of our product are very
"hungry" innovation because they must compete with very often cheaper alternative materials.
The potential replication is measured in qualitative terms. The extent of the potential replication of the
product in terms of quantity is reflected by the market demand but at the moment this measure is not yet
available because the product is being introduced. Today, we have only the first impressions, on average
positive, on the part of market players.
After five years from the end of the research project, according to estimated market penetration, we
expect to achieve the following results:
▪ potentially one manufacturer per year could adopt the ECO TILE approach (either the whole or part
of it);
▪ increase of just under 30%, from € seven hundred thousand euros (€ 700.000) to nine hundred
thousand euros € 900) only for Eco TILES - residential and non-residential;
▪ entry into the North Europe and US market.The baseline is 30% in Italy. 20% abroad (Europe
(Austria, Germany, switzerland and France.) And Middle East, Russia, Ukraine;
▪ entry into these different sectors: terrazzo tiles indoor and outdorr, cement (Portland) and other
pre-casted products;
▪ two patents filed.
To measure the level of acceptance of Life Eco Tiles prototypes from customers we will review the
results of questionnaires prepared specifically for the main categories of customers: architects, distributors,
participants at fairs events, associations, cement and ceramic producers and workers and cement ceramic
sector.
The objective assessment of the spread of the production of Life Eco Tiles will be given by the impact of
employment: jobs creation, amelioration of work conditions, quality of life, etc. 2016 LIFE ERE: 68/117
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