Welcome to paperChain
Innovative new circular business models
Most of the current waste streams generated by the Pulp & Paper industry (PPI) are currently disposed to landfills or burnt for energy production. Inorganic wastes are basically used as cement raw material and to a lesser extent as soil amendment in forestry applications. These solutions have a low added value and are dependent on the existence of cement kilns and acid soils in the vicinity of the mills, reducing their potential valorisation. Although there is extensive academic research on the waste valorisation to enhance the utilization of paper mill waste streams, there is still a lack of alternatives proved at real scale under operational conditions.
Paperchain is a demonstrative project that proposes innovative applications for different underused PPI waste streams, proving their technical, economic and environmental feasibility in five circular business models through real scale pilots.The project aims at unlocking the situation that hinders the proposed solutions to reach the market, including not only technical issues, but legal, social and economic factors.
To overcome these barriers, the project has involved the whole value chain and provides transparency of their outcomes, being public awareness a priority.
paperChain at a glance
The overall objective of PAPERCHAIN is to deploy five novel circular economy models centred in the valorisation of the waste streams generated by the Pulp and Paper Industry (PPI) as secondary raw material for a number of resource intensive sectors: construction sector, mining sector and chemical industry.
The Project
The Consortium
Circular Cases
REAL SCALE DEMONSTRATORS
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News
PAPERCHAIN HOLDS ITS 4TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN SWEDEN
During this week, 4th general assembly of the paperChain project is being celebrated in Luleå (Sweden), kindly hosted by LTU (Lulea Technical University). A workshop was celebrated during the second part of the day in LTU. GLAD project and #paperChain project exposed...
World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF)
WCEF presented the world’s best circular economy solutions and brought together over 1,000 key thinkers and doers from around the world. The World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) is a global initiative of Finland and the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. It brings together...
World Resources Forum 2019 (WRF19) – H2020 Industrial Symbiosis side-event
On 25th and 26th of February, World Resources Forum 2019 was celebrated in Antwerp (Belgium). During this congress a side event was organized by some European-funded projects with a common focus on Industrial Symbiosis topic. This side event joined the following...
World Circular Economy Forum 2018 -WCEF 2018 (Japan)
The second World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF2018) took place from 22-24 October 2018 in Yokohama, Japan. More than 1,100 experts from 64 countries discussed what we are doing today and what we need to do to create a true circular economy by 2050. At the WCEF 2018,...