ATRIC 4.0

Waste management is one of the main challenges modern society must face due to its increasing generation and significant environmental, social, and economic impacts. Waste represents a substantial loss of resources, both material and energetic.

The ATRIC 4.0 project, ” Accelerating the transition towards sustainable, digital and circular Industry 4.0, with new processing technologies, AI and industrial symbiosis to maximise the recovery of combustion waste in the infrastructure sector and reduce CO2 emissions,” will provide solutions for the transition of the process industry. This will be achieved through the use of industrial waste and gaseous streams to obtain high-value products in construction and industry. From a circular and digital approach, it will address the dual problem of increased waste production and the depletion of resources available for the development, maintenance, and improvement of infrastructures. It will incentivize value chain stakeholders, enhancing data transparency and fidelity to achieve maximum resource efficiency.

The project will aim to achieve a higher level of circularity (45%) for new high-value secondary raw materials contained in combustion waste and new processes to obtain base cement materials with a lower carbon footprint. They will also seek to reduce CO2 emissions by 20%, capturing and recovering carbon as a renewable energy vector and incorporating the use of renewable energy. This is a step towards a greener, more sustainable future.

The consortium formed for developing the ATRIC 4.0 industrial research project is multidisciplinary, multisectoral, and interregional. It includes companies capable of developing the research lines proposed in this project, thereby increasing the value of current products and services. The consortium comprises eight companies (4 large enterprises, two medium-sized enterprises, and two tech SMEs) and nine top-tier research organizations that will support the companies.