In the initial 18 months of the project, a lean structure has been established based on a framework collaboration agreement between all partners and individual marketing/sales partnership agreements between individual partners and SEP. Currently, Convert2Green has created a set of 78 dedicated R&D, innovation and business services that target SMEs in need of replacing established materials with circular solutions (e.g. recycled materials) and SMEs offering such materials helping them to bring their solution to the market.
Facilities for Circularity Design, Re-Use and Compounding, Materials Design and Modelling, were upgraded and commissioned, resulting in very promising preliminary results related to critical metals recovery, batteries recycling, and recycled plastics re-using and compounding. Converting and Application Integration Facilities were equipped with inline monitoring systems resulting in efficient resource utilisation and waste minimization.
Verification and Testing Facilities and Services delivered a database for testing methodologies covering 46 distinct methodologies in 8 different categories. The database was processed into an accessible catalogue of C2G physicochemical and functional characterisation testing capabilities, including application examples to support Open Call applications. Human and Environmental Hazard Testing Facility Qualification managed to generate 3D dynamic cell spheroids utilising data harvested from static growth conditions. A handbook draft for Measure and Verification methodology was prepared setting up a methodology framework for implementation in Pilot Lines including the evaluation of parameters under real condition operation covering technical, environmental, economic and social aspects.
