- Winter Holidays 2024 - As we approach the end of another significant year, it’s the perfect time to reflect on our journey. As always, not everything went exactly as planned—that’s the beauty and challenge of doing completely new things. 💡 This year brought many milestones: the launch of a new demonstration plant, the creation of the first circular cycling jersey in collaboration with Velor, and securing Innovation Fund support for our industrial plant, to name just a few. But we’re confident that 2025 holds even greater promise! 🎇 Our team will be taking a well-deserved break to recharge and spend quality time with loved ones, and we hope you’ll do the same. 🎄 See you in 2025! 🎉 #gr3n #recycling #polyester #winterholidays
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GR3N SA is a Swiss company founded in 2011 that developed an innovative process, based on the application of microwave technology to an alkaline hydrolysis, which provides an economically viable recycling process of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), allowing the industrial implementation. This new process can potentially change how PET is recycled worldwide, with huge benefits both for the recycling industry and for all the polyester value chain. In the past, many efforts were made to transfer chemical recycling from research labs to industry but the economic aspects blocked the proposed solutions. Thanks to the DEMETO (Depolymerization by MicrowavE TechnolOgy) technology developed by gr3n this approach becomes real. gr3n has a massive advantage with respect to its competitors because it can supply a chemical recycling solution (i.e., closing the PET lifecycle, offering polymer grade material, treating waste, lowering carbon footprint) providing cost savings for players in the value chain. The input materials for the process can be post-consumer and/or post-industrial polyesters, both from bottles (colored, colorless, transparent, opaque) and textile (100% polyester but also with up to 30% of other materials like PU, cotton, polyether-polyurea, etc.). The reaction output is a mixture of building block derivatives, which are then isolated and purified. Monomers can be endlessly re-polymerized to provide brand-new virgin PET or any other polymer that is using one of the monomers. As mentioned for the depolymerization step, every time we run a polymerization, we obtain a brand new polymer, where the technical features depend on the monomer purity and the polymerization conditions.
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http://gr3n-recycling.com/
Externer Link zu GR3N SA
- Branche
- Chemische Produktion
- Größe
- 11–50 Beschäftigte
- Hauptsitz
- Lugano, Ticino
- Art
- Privatunternehmen
- Gegründet
- 2011
- Spezialgebiete
- Chemical Recycling, Depolymerization, Plastic Sustainability, Circular Econominics, PTA (purified terephthalic acid), EG (ethylene glycol), Plastic Pollution Prevention, Textile Recycling, LCA Plastic, Macrowave Machine Manufacturing.
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Primär
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Lugano
Lugano, Ticino, CH
Beschäftigte von GR3N SA
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- FORUM ECONOMIA CIRCOLARE - On Friday, December 6, Fabio Silvestri, PhD will discuss our technology and how we can apply it to textiles at the 9th edition of Forum Economia Circolare in Prato. The event is organized by Legambiente Toscana. Join us at Sala Cinema, Centro Pecci. #gr3n #sustainability #recycling #circularity
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- GR3N a ECOMONDO - Oggi il nostro CEO, Maurizio Crippa sarà ad #Ecomondo per parlare di rifiuti tessili urbani non riusabili insieme a @Mauro Chezzi, Mauro Badanelli, Francesco Tiezzi, Sara Dell'Orco, Federico Fraboni, Hakan UCAR. ⏰ Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024 🕒 Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 📍 Location: Textile District - Workshop Area, Hall B3 #recycling #gr3n #polyester #textile https://lnkd.in/d9Yq6Uhq
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- INNOVATION FUND - Guess what? We were selected to receive EU funds 🚀 Would you happen to know what this means for us? The first industrial plant is a bit closer, we can almost see it 🔎 #gr3n #intecsa #MODUS #chemicalrecyling
Intecsa Industrial AND GR3N SA SELECTED TO RECEIVE EUR 35 MILLION IN EU FUNDS FOR TEXTILE AND PLASTICS RECYCLING PROJECT IN SPAIN We at @Intecsa Industrial are thrilled to announce that has been awarded a grant from the EU Innovation Fund of up to EUR 35 million for MODUS, a project aimed at recycling approximately 50,000 tons of textiles and packaging which will allow avoiding over 2 Million tons CO2 during its lifetime. MODUS uses an innovative process based on the application of microwave technology to alkaline hydrolysis depolymerization patented and owned by @GR3N. This process reinvents the life cycle of plastics and textiles, providing a solution for non-recyclable plastics by producing virgin-quality recycled PET/Polyester. This material can be seamlessly integrated into the production lines of packaging and textile manufacturers without compromising their existing facilities or product catalogs. GR3N's flexibility to recycle various materials, along with its unique capability to recycle certain textiles with lower Polyester content, positions the company as a key player in the chemical recycling space to achieve a circular economy. MODUS is the result of more than three years of development leveraging on the long-term strategical alignment of INTECSA and GR3N that has allowed for a robust industrial approach and a profitable and resilient business model. #InnovationFund #MODUS #Intecsa #GR3N #Depolymerization #ChemicalRecycling #PET #Polyester #Textile-to-textile #bottle-to-bottle #changeintextile #changeinplastics
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GR3N SA hat dies direkt geteilt
🌍Nieuws: Schneider Electric en GR3N SA bundelen krachten voor plastic recycling Vanaf nu werken we samen met GR3N om de toekomst van plastic recycling naar een hoger niveau te tillen. Met GR3N’s innovatieve MADE-proces wordt PET-afval chemisch afgebroken en omgezet in nieuwe, hoogwaardige PET-pellets voor gebruik in verpakkingen en textiel. Schneider’s EcoStruxure Automation Expert levert de nodige flexibiliteit om dit proces op industriële schaal uit te rollen, met een fabriek in Spanje die jaarlijks 40.000 ton PET-afval zal verwerken. Fabio Silvestri, PhD , Marketing & Business Development bij GR3N: "Dankzij software-gedefinieerde automatisering en onafhankelijkheid van hardware kunnen we snel onze systemen herconfigureren en de efficiëntie vergroten, terwijl we problemen in de toeleveringsketen vermijden. Dit is precies wat nodig is om plastic recycling op grote schaal mogelijk te maken." Met deze samenwerking willen we innovatie en circulariteit in de chemische industrie bevorderen en bijdragen aan onze gezamenlijke missie om de wereldwijde plasticvervuiling aan te pakken. Het plan is om tegen 2027 een fabriek operationeel te hebben die jaarlijks 35-40 kton PET-afval verwerkt. #Sustainability #Innovatie #CircularEconomy #PlasticRecycling #SchneiderElectric #GR3N
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Industrializing a new technology is more than just running reactions: you have to consider several things, and automation is one of them. 🏔 Our CTO, Dr. Franco Antonio Cavadini, is trying to push our boundaries, and this collaboration with Schneider Electric represents a clear step ahead. 👉 #gr3n #automation #plastic #recycling
📌Check the comments section for the full News link. Schneider Electric & GR3N A Leap Forward in Plastic Recycling! 🔄🌍Schneider Electric and GR3N SA are transforming plastic recycling with their latest breakthrough! 🌟 By integrating advanced technology with innovative processes, they're tackling the global plastic waste challenge head-on. ♻️ MADE Technology GR3N’s Microwave Assisted DEpolymerization breaks down PET into reusable components with virgin-like quality. Open Automation Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Automation Expert supports scalable, modular, and vendor-agnostic automation solutions. Sustainability Focus The technology enhances operational efficiency, reduces engineering costs, and supports a circular economy with significant reductions in waste. 🌿This partnership not only advances recycling technology but also sets new standards for sustainability and operational excellence. Together, they’re driving impactful change and paving the way for a greener future! 🌍🔧#SchneiderElectric, #GR3N, #Sustainable, #DigitalTransformation, #EnergyManagement, #OpenAutomation, #PETChemicalRecycler, #FabioSilvestri, #ChristophedeMaistre
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"The textile sector is woven into our daily lives – it provides high levels of employment, generates $1.5 trillion in revenue, and provides products essential to human welfare. It is however also a sector struggling to address its impacts, including significant natural resource use and pollution, with 215 trillion liters of water consumed per year, and 9% of annual microplastic losses to oceans" If you do not know it, you should have a look at the United Nations Environment Programme (2023). Sustainability and Circularity in the Textile Value Chain - A Global Roadmap #textile #recycling #polyester #polycotton #unitednations
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- SUMMER TIME - Several good things happened since the beginning of the year: a rebranding, the new demo plant, ChangeNOW in Paris, Climate First-Cohort III in London, the first fully circular cycling Jersey with Velor...and we are only at the end of July 🎢 We are not yet on vacation, but we are definitely trying to find the right way to chill out 😁 Stay tuned! #gr3n #recycling #change #polyester
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-CLIMATE FIRST COHORT III- The @Climate First Cohort III London Roadshow has begun! Today, we celebrated the launch of the roadshow at the House of Lords where our CEO, Maurizio Crippa presented our cutting-edge climate tech innovation. We are honored to be part of this exceptional group of companies committed to driving decarbonization and accelerating the transition to a net-zero energy future. Guy Cherni I Nadav Steinmetz I Keren Jason I Dor Bershadsky I Arielle Evan I Yuval Blutman | Moria Zhut #gr3n #recycling #polyester
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- FULLY CIRCULAR CYCLING JERSEY- It is a pleasure to unveil what we have done in collaboration with Velor…and it is finally our turn to celebrate! 🎉 Starting from post-consumer cycling apparel, we depolymerized it into rTPA and rMEG, and then we re-polymerized it into virgin-like PET in our facility in Albese con Cassano. Thanks Tom Leezer and Florian Jardin for believing in our technology! We would also like to thank our colleague Fabio Silvestri, PhD, for his first acting appearance. 🤐 #gr3n #recycling #polyester #cycling #textilerecycling
🌟🚴♂️ Announcing the World's First Fully Circular Jersey! 🚴♀️🌟 We are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking milestone in sustainable cycling wear – the launch of the world's first fully circular jersey! 🌿💚 In collaboration with GR3N SA, we’ve reimagined the lifecycle of cycling apparel. Our new circular jersey ensures that old garments are given a second life, significantly reducing waste and minimizing our environmental footprint. This innovation marks a significant step towards transforming the cycling industry from a linear to a circular economy. And we need your help to keep the cycle going! Join our mission by sending in your old jerseys to be part of the next batch of circular jerseys. Join us in celebrating this achievement and learn more about how we’re leading the way to a sustainable future. Discover more about our fully circular jersey here www.velor-cycling.com/ Tom Leezer Frank Arendsen Mickaël JARDIN Florian Jardin Peter Roozemond Andy Berendsen Bart Ottenheim Alexander Bajada Fabienne Walch GR3N SA Bram Tankink