Italian adhesives manufacturer specialising in bio-based resins, bioadhesives, and construction chemicals derived from agricultural and forestry waste.
Collanti Concorde SRL is an Italian adhesives and construction chemicals manufacturer — the name itself means "adhesives" in Italian — based in Vittorio Veneto in the Treviso industrial district. Their core business is formulating and producing resins, adhesives, and bonding systems for the construction industry, which is why they were recruited into research consortia developing bio-based alternatives to petroleum-derived products. In H2020, they contributed industrial manufacturing know-how and scale-up capability to projects developing bioresins, bioadhesives, and bio-insulation foams from agricultural and forestry waste streams such as lignin, tannins, and lignocellulose. Their value in a consortium is that of a real-world industrial partner who can validate whether a lab-scale bio-based material can actually be manufactured and applied in construction.
Both GREEN INSTRUCT and REHAP centre on developing and applying bioadhesives and bioresins as drop-in replacements for conventional construction adhesives, directly matching the company's core product line.
GREEN INSTRUCT (2016-2020) targeted integrated structural elements for energy-efficient retrofitting and new construction, where Collanti Concorde provided adhesive bonding expertise.
REHAP (2016-2021) focused on extracting building blocks — lignin, tannins, sugars — from agroforestry residues to synthesise bioresins and bio-insulation foams at industrial scale.
REHAP keywords include 'up-scaling' and 'process engineering', indicating Collanti Concorde's role in bridging lab-scale biorefinery outputs to manufacturable construction products.
Both H2020 projects started in 2016, so there is no meaningful multi-year temporal arc to analyse — the organisation entered EU-funded research in a single cohort. What the keyword data does reveal is a dual-track specialisation: one project (GREEN INSTRUCT) addressed the application side — integrating structural elements into energy-efficient buildings — while the other (REHAP) went deeper into materials chemistry, working with lignocellulose waste, lignin, and tannins as feedstocks for bioresins and biosuperplasticisers. The direction of travel, even within this narrow window, points toward the circular bioeconomy end of construction chemicals: replacing fossil-derived adhesives and binders with waste-derived bio-based equivalents.
Collanti Concorde is moving toward bio-based construction chemicals derived from agroforestry residues, positioning itself for future demand for low-carbon adhesives and binders in sustainable construction.
Collanti Concorde has always entered H2020 as a participant, never as a coordinator — a consistent pattern that reflects the profile of an industrial partner brought in for its manufacturing know-how rather than its project management capability. Across just two projects, they worked with 33 distinct partners in 12 countries, suggesting they join sizeable international consortia rather than tight bilateral partnerships. They are the type of partner a consortium recruits to provide industry validation and end-user perspective on bio-based materials, not to lead the scientific agenda.
Collanti Concorde has built a surprisingly broad network for a two-project SME: 33 unique consortium partners across 12 countries, averaging roughly 16 partners per project. Their network is distinctly European, spanning northern and southern Europe through construction and biorefinery research consortia.
Collanti Concorde occupies a rare position as a practising adhesives manufacturer — not a research lab — with hands-on experience in two complementary H2020 domains: green structural building elements and bio-based resin chemistry. For any consortium developing bio-based construction chemicals, they offer something most academic or research partners cannot: the ability to assess manufacturability, formulation stability, and real-world application of bio-derived adhesives. Their industrial grounding in the construction chemicals market makes them a credible bridge between biorefinery science and commercial building products.
