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The last 22nd June all the developers of the PHENOLIVE technology met in Mora (Toledo, Spain) to show the final outcomes of the project.

The Life Cycle Analisys of the technology was presented and the extraction yield of polyphenols of the developed technology after the industrial tests were shown. The Partners agreed they are very good results and the SMEs discussed about the future exploitation of the results moving towards the commercialization of the technology and its applications.

The meeting was organized by MORA INDUSTRIAL, S.A. where the prototype is installed. The partners visited their facilities and the PHENOLIVE prototype as well.

The project will finalise at the end of month with very good results.

Around 1800 million tonnes of manure are produced in Europe every year. In regions with intensive animal husbandry, this could cause environmental, social and economic challenges.

An impasse?
In the EU-funded project BioEcoSIM led by Fraunhofer IGB, 15 partners from research and industry developed a technology to convert livestock manure into organic soil improvers and mineral fertilisers. The overall process uses energy-efficient technologies and works on the principle of circular economy. The technology prototype is capable of processing 50 kg of raw manure per hour into fertilizers and organic soil improvers. The products obtained have excellent quality as fertilizers and can then be mixed to match the nutritional requirements of any crop.

The problem turns into a market perspective!
The project consortium will present its results and the pilot plant on 14th June 2016 in Kupferzell (Germany) at the installations of one of the project partners, Agro Energie GmbH.
Ateknea would like to encourage you to visit this innovative pilot plant. Next to the presentation and visit of the prototype, there will be expert presentations and workshops allowing mutual experience exchanges between different interest group representatives from the agro economic sector.

More info about the event: http://www.bioecosim.eu/Open-Demonstration-Event.html

Ateknea Solutions participates this week in the Eureka Innovation Week, Sweden.

EUREKA is a publicly-funded, intergovernmental network, involving over 40 countries. EUREKA’s aim is to enhance European competitiveness by fostering innovation-driven entrepreneurship in Europe between small and large industries, research institutes and universities. By doing this, EUREKA concentrates the existing potential of experts, knowledge, research facilities and financial resources in a more efficient way.

Ateknea will join this event as the only Spanish representative, being part of two sessions of PICTH: Euripides (today), and CELTIC-PLUS (tomorrow).

We will introduce our company, and our services, in addition we will do a presentation of one of our projects, CitiSense.  Ateknea will be taking part in B2B meetings with more than 15 other companies across the world.

For further information: http://www.eurekanetwork.org/

Representatives of the FoAM-BUILD consortium will be attending Ecobuild 2016, the leading exhibition and conference for the UK construction and energy market, from 8th to 10th March at ExCeL in London.

FoAM-BUILD, the four year European project to develop next generation External Thermal Insulation Composite Systems (ETICS) for new builds and retrofitting applications is now entering its final two years and has already achieved promising results.

One of the most recent developments is the setting up of a ventilation test façade at DAW (Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke von Robert Murjahn Stiftung & Co KG), who are responsible for the scale up for the production of new and improved thermal insulation materials made of expanded particle foam such as EPS.  This test façade will be used to run an experiment over the next four months which will involve the recording of ambient conditions in order to demonstrate how weather conditions affect the growth of micro-organisms on façades.

Another development is the creation of a sensor sensitive to both temperature and moisture on the ETICS surface.  Results to-date show fast detection of changes in humidity on the surface of ETICS.

To discover more about FoAM-BUILD, visit the Smithers Rapra stand, number E4109, where more information will be available or visit the website at www.foambuild.eu

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration.