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 brings its partners together at Acciona’s headquarters in Zaragoza
A new meeting of the partners of the PaperChain consortium took place on 25th of June at the headquarters of Acciona in Zaragoza. This event was attended by LGI Consulting (Camille Aurialut, Eve Dallamaggiore), Acciona Construction (Alberto Royo, Anurag Bansal,...
PaperChain meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia
The workshop was organised to get information on the circular case 3 of PAPERCHAIN for the deliverable D8.1 “Report on transition assessment for circular economy processes” due in November 2018. The workshop started by a review of the drivers, barriers and the...
PaperChain holds its 2nd General Assembly in Sweden
We have interviewed Jan Jose Cepriá (Acciona Construccion), General Coordinator of the PaperChain project, to find out more about the recently held 2nd General Assembly in Sweden. As coordinator of the paperChain project, what is the time and status of the project? We...
PaperChain Workshops led by TECNALIA & LGI
During the 30th and 31st of May, the PaperChain project held its second general assembly in the Swedish city of Örnsköldsvik.