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FP6 - 500345
ECOTARGET - New and innovative processes for radical changes of the European pulp and paper industry |
| Type of Project | Integrated Project |
| Contract No | FP6 - 500345 |
| Total Cost | 17,920 KEuro |
| EC Contribution | 10,000 KEuro |
| Start Date | 17-2-2005 |
| Duration | 48 Months |
Abstract
ECOTARGET is the largest research project ever in the European pulp and paper industry and is financed by the European Commission. There are 26 partners from all over Europe participating in this project directed towards new and innovative processes for radical changes in the European pulp & paper industry.
ECOTARGET aims at supporting the pulp and paper industry of Europe with innovative new processes, from making pulp to paper.
The most radical ideas for new processes have been gathered into ECOTARGET. The common theme binding together these process ideas, can be summarised as "More from Less". This means producing more functionality using less resources. All ideas developed within the project aim at reducing the use at least one of the four target areas: Wood Raw Material, Energy, Water, Waste & Emissions. Each concept developed has a potential of 20-30 % reduction in one or several of these target areas.
The overall objective of ECOTARGET is to enhance the competitiveness of the pulp and paper sector (including its suppliers) of Europe while at the same time improving the eco-efficiency.
This IP intends to achieve major improvements in processing and do it in a way that facilitates efficient deployment of results. It will seek to develop significant improvements by applying a broad multidisciplinary approach. The work will be based on a set of selected novel ideas: reduction of the energy consumption in mechanical pulping, improving raw-material efficiency by using separation of fibre flows in the process, improvement of product properties by producing layered paper sheets and elimination of bottlenecks in the use of recycled fibres.
The goals, besides improving product quality and production economy, are to achieve for each breakthrough idea improvements by at least 20% in at least one of the factors energy consumption, raw material utilization, fresh water consumption, waste production and emission measured per unit of production.
The work planned means performing a series of subprojects of high potential and high risk directed to an industry of high complexity and high capital intensity. It is therefore necessary to join all the best and relevant resources in research. In order to maximize the chance of success it is essential to have breadth in the partnership and thus high degree of multidisciplinarity, including basic scientific as well as applied engineering disciplines. It is also necessary to work in consort with relevant university departments, research institutes and companies.
The partnership involves leading industrial companies producing pulp and paper as well as companies supplying this industry with machinery, chemicals etc. The partnership also involves the major European research institutes and leading universities active in fields of relevance. The partnership thus allows work from fundamental scientific.
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STFI-Packforsk AB, Sweden
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