Industrial recovery of feather waste for keratin-based sustainable materials
Summary and objectives
The main objective of the KaRMA2020 project is to develop new bio-based products for high impact sectors from poultry feather waste.
This objective will be achieved through the following steps:
- Improvement of feather waste pre-treatment and conditioning processes.
- Optimisation of the isolation of keratin and other feather-based raw materials.
- Validation of new feather-based raw materials for bio-based end products.
Benefits and positive impacts
The project will have a number of relevant benefits and impacts, including:
- Technical impact, through the optimisation of feather processing methods from laboratory to industrial scale.
- Industrial impact, through the manufacture of bio-based raw materials and the production and validation of end products.
- Environmental impact, through the reduction of the negative environmental effect due to feather waste, as well as the substitution of non-renewable primary raw materials by renewable raw materials for industrial production.
- Economic impact, through the promotion of innovative applications and products. Increased value from existing waste.
Participating entities
Project coordinator:
- CIDETEC (Spain)
Other participants
- FERTIBERIA S.A. (Spain)
- GRUPO SADA (Spain)
- TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Finland)
- SP SVERIGES TEKNISKA FORSKNINGSINSTITUT AB (Sweden)
- CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE & TECHNIQUE DE L'INDUSTRIE TEXTILE BELGE (Belgium)
- AIMPLAS – ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE MATERIALES PLÁSTICOS Y CONEXAS (Spain)
- INSTYTUT BIOPOLIMEROW I WLOKIEN CHEMICZNYCH (Poland)
- SIOEN INDUSTRIES NV (Belgium)
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (France)
- AVANTIUM CHEMICALS BV (Netherlands)
- FKUR KUNSTSTOFF GMBH (Germany)
- VERTECH GROUP SARL (France)
- CIAOTECH Srl (Italy)
- DAREN LABORATORIES & SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANTS LTD (Israel)
- SP PROCESSUM AKTIEBOLAG (Sweden)
Funding
The KaRMA2020 project (Project 723268) has been funded by the European Union for research and innovation H2020.
