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Boost your business with waste streams from textiles, packaging and construction wood
Can we find new affordable fibre raw materials from waste streams? How can technology solve problems of fractionation and refining for fibre upcycling? Where are we on the way to commercializing recycling of textile fibres? This webinar reviews the status of technology and novel solutions for fibre recycling to brand-new consumer products, materials and fuels. All presented technologies have been piloted at ton scale.
Closed-loop textile recycling
Innovations that exploit waste textile fibres will answer to the need created by the new landfill regulations as well as to the need of growing textile fibre markets. We will show how VTT has developed technologies for textile fibre upgrading and is starting industrial-scale production of textile fibres from post-consumer clothes. www.reloopingfashion.org
Optimizing sugar production from waste streams
In certain cases, production of fermentable sugars from lignocellulosic waste streams is feasible. We will show how to optimize sugar production from waste streams by adjusting pretreatments and developing the overall process concept. We will demonstrate also how bioethanol can be produced from wood and packaging waste, also as a continuous process.
Construction waste to materials for new innovative outdoor applications
Construction waste can also be upgraded through defibration to new construction materials (e.g. for insulation) through mechanical treatments. We will demonstrate how established technologies can be applied to different waste raw materials.
Join this webinar to learn how you could speed up your development activities related to waste fibres.
Presented by
Kristiina Kruus,
Research Professor
Kristiina Kruus is currently working at VTT as a Research Professor in the area of Applied Enzymology of Renewable Biomass. She is also coordinating the VTT internal programme Bioeconomy Transformation aiming at developing sustainable product and process concepts from plant biomass. Kristiina Kruus' scientific work has been related to enzyme discovery and enzyme applications, especially degradation and modification of plat biomass and their major components. Prof Kruus is also a docent at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Forestry and Agriculture since 2005 and is actively teaching there. Kristiina Kruus has published more than 90 peer reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. She has seven patents or patent applications.
Ali Harlin,
Research Professor
Ali Harlin, Dr.Sc.(Tech), research professor in bioeconomy at VTT, has experience from petrochemical, machinery and forest industries. He has some 200 scientific and original publications as well he is inventor of some 60 patents. He is active in research on novel and added value chemical and material applications of biomass and especially wood based lignocellulosics.
Key Learning Objectives
Hear where we stand on the way to commercializing waste textile fibres
Discover the modern processing technologies that enable efficient utilization of lignocellulosic waste streams
Learn how to create added-value products from various waste streams
Find out the elements that form the competitive edge of the renewed raw material business
