DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR RATIONALIZATION, RECOVERY AND REUSE OF WASTE PRODUCTS OF POLYPROPYLENE, POLYSTYRENE AND OTHER TEXTILES

Project facts

Project promoter:
INSONORIZANTES PELZER, S.A.
Project Number:
ES02-0031
Target groups
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€411,846
Final project cost:
€370,072
From EEA Grants:
€ 46,987
The project is carried out in:
Zaragoza

Description

INSONORIZANTES PELZER is a company which is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of different soundproofing products for the automotive sector. It has a pioneering and innovative effort that characterizes the company and also is the basis for its continuing, competitive and sustainable improvement. The development and implement of new proposals and technologies regarding new products and processes reinforce its positioning in the automotive sector. Committed to its innovation character, it will develop and implement a new technology for recycling and recovery of waste material from manufacturing lines dedicated to wheel arches, with the aim to reuse it as raw material in the Hot Moulding Process line. This new technology will provide the company with the necessary technical capacity to adapt and reuse the excess from the wheel arches manufacturing lines as raw material (reducing the percentage of natural fibers and drastically reducing petroleum-derived fibers) in forming lines. The final product will be internal insulating components for automotive floors and inner dashes.

Summary of project results

INSONORIZANTES PELZER S.A is a company located in Zaragoza belonging to PELZER German multinational group which is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of different soundproofing products for the automotive sector. The company has developed and implement a new technology for recycling and recovery of waste material from manufacturing lines dedicated to wheel arches for its reusing as raw material in the HotMouldingProcess lines (Third Generation) (HMP III). This new recycling technology has provided the company the necessary technical capacity to adapt and reuse the excess from the wheel arches manufacturing lines as raw material (reducing the percentage of natural fibers and drastically reducing petroleum-derived fibers) in HMP III forming lines. The final product will be internal insulating components for automotive floors and backsplashes. These products made of recycled material show the same or better properties than the original products.

Summary of bilateral results