Summary:
This Italian start-up promotes the recovery and recycling of materials and supports companies in reducing their resource consumption. It has developed an online platform to help enterprises to characterize their waste and matching their materials with logistics partners, transformation industries and new industrial users. The start-up aims at scaling industrial symbiosis beyond the national territory. The cooperation is envisaged under a license agreement.
Description:
The Italian start-up was born in 2019 and aims at supporting enterprises to become circular in an industrial symbiosis framework. The digital tool developed analyses waste production of industries, using data relating to waste quantitative (ton), qualitative characteristics (according to the European Waste Catalogue), and the type of company involved, to search for the best match. Moreover, based on the inserted information, an estimation of the impact that the suggested path could have on the environment will be provided.
Although the companies registered on the platform are only Italians at present, the platform can be exploited also by foreign companies that operate in every sector, with more relevance for those which work in manufacturing (such as textile, agri-food, construction, demolition, and packaging) and are:
•Actors which need their waste or by-products to be disposed of;
•Actors that can transport waste products and materials;
•Actors that are able to recover and transform waste into by-products and secondary raw materials;
•Actors that can use these materials for new production cycles.
Through the platform, companies can find the next node of the supply chain which is missing for implementing a real circular economy process.
Furthermore, this start-up has a young multi-disciplinary and skilled team, with two women founders, a general manager with decades of experience in IT, environment, and energy sectors, one senior proposals consultant, a group of IT professionals, plus several experts in materials engineering, physics, environment, law, and economics.
With the aim of broadening the offer on the platform and consequently the positive socio-economic impact on the environment, the company seeks international partners under a license agreement, having as object the right to use the platform.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
The framework of the proposed cooperation is to be identified in a license agreement.
Ideal partners are companies from the textile, agri-food, construction, demolition, and packaging sectors. The partners would use the platform to find potential collaborators; at the same time, the partners would participate in enlarging the database by inserting their own profile and offers for industrial symbiosis.
Stage of Development:
Already on the market
IPR Status:
Copyright
External code:
BOIT20210719001
