Italian start-up developing and applying sustainable solutions for circular economy, carbon capture and gas purification seeks partners under financial agreement, joint venture agreement or licence agreement

This company offers a wide range of technologies in waste material recovery and gas treatment, with the aim of providing solutions for the efficient management of resources and clean energy provision. These technologies can be exploited in several different industries, such as steel mills, waste, sludge, lime and cement treatment facilities, metal finishing and varnishing companies. Its solutions include, but are not limited to: •Accelerated CO2 mineralization technology. Carbonatation normally occurs under high-pressure conditions to enhance CO2 dissolution; instead, capturing CO2 from concentrated streams (e.g. chimneys, biomethane off-gas, furnaces), this technology allows to recover alkaline sludges and steel slags and convert them into high-quality geopolymers to be used in construction. This entails a reduction of operational and investment costs. •Plastic waste pre-treatment and dehalogenation. Recycling mixed plastic waste is challenging due to the presence of halogenated compounds, such as chlorides, causing corrosion, dioxins emissions, and end-of-waste quality problems. This technology combines mechanical and chemical treatment and allows to remove chlorides as inert, while drying and grinding the plastic waste, saving also energy in the process. •Rare Earth Elements (REE) and precious metals recovery from Fly Ashes (FA). 58 MT/year of municipal solid waste are incinerated within the EU, producing 1-3 MT/year of Fly Ashes, containing a high concentration of precious metals like REE. Their recovery is profitable but often difficult. This process solves the issue, allowing complete recovery of FA through carbonatation and producing also geopolymers that can be exploited in construction. •Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) emissions purification with on-site regenerable system. VOC are usually difficult to treat, due to the low energetic content that does not allow self-sustaining thermal treatment. This technology uses special adsorbent materials that can be regenerated in place with hot air and the VOC stream is completely oxidated with an integrated thermal catalytic recovery system (RCT). Furthermore, applying this process, more than 50% of savings are expected on engine maintenance costs. The offered technologies are at different stages of development according to the case. The Italian SME can count on patented technologies, as well as on early-stage solutions to be further improved with investments in research and development. The framework of the proposed cooperation is to be identified in a financial agreement, in a joint venture agreement, or in a licence agreement. Partners can be companies, institutions, private investors, according to the expected kind of partnership. The SME is also open to new partnerships to research and further develop its technologies. Investors are addressed for a financial agreement that would allow to further improve the company’s existing technologies and consequently enlarge its market. Specifically, the role of the partner would be to invest in the Italian SME and/or in a new company as a vehicle for build own operate initiatives. As far as joint venture and licence agreements are concerned, these types of partnerships should result in joint development of plants that exploit the start-up technologies, benefitting all the parties involved.