DELETE FINLAND OY

Their core work

DELETE Finland Oy is a Finnish industrial services company — part of the Delete Group — specializing in demolition, deconstruction, and industrial cleaning. In H2020 projects, they contribute as an industry practitioner who actually handles construction and demolition (C&D) waste streams in the real world, giving research consortia direct access to material flows, operational knowledge, and field-testing environments. Their participation in projects focused on mineral wool recycling and circular urban construction reflects their core business: managing the physical end-of-life of buildings and industrial facilities. They bring the "what actually happens on a demolition site" perspective that academic and technology partners typically lack.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects entered in 2019, so there is no long arc to trace — but the two projects reveal a deliberate breadth rather than a single niche. WOOL2LOOP tackled a specific material problem at the chemical and process level: how to sort, pre-treat, and reuse mineral wool waste from demolition. CIRCuIT moved to the city-systems level: how to design buildings and urban districts so that materials stay in circulation from the start. The shift from "how to deal with waste after demolition" toward "how to prevent waste through better design and governance" is a meaningful one, suggesting DELETE was positioning itself within the broader circular economy agenda rather than staying confined to downstream waste handling.

DELETE appears to be moving from operational waste management toward systemic circular construction — a direction that positions them as a value chain partner in future urban regeneration and net-zero building projects rather than just a demolition subcontractor.

How they like to work

DELETE has never led an H2020 project — both appearances are as participant, consistent with an industry company that joins consortia to validate and field-test research outputs rather than to drive the research agenda. Despite only two projects, they engaged with 46 unique partners across 11 countries, which means both consortia were large, multi-actor Innovation Actions — the kind of project that requires an industry end-user or practitioner to prove real-world applicability. This makes them a reliable industry anchor for future consortia needing a demolition or C&D waste operator in the partnership.

With 46 unique consortium partners across 11 countries from just two projects, DELETE's network is disproportionately broad for their project count — both WOOL2LOOP and CIRCuIT were large pan-European Innovation Actions. Their reach spans Northern and Western Europe, consistent with the geographic scope of circular construction policy initiatives.

What sets them apart

DELETE Finland is rare in EU research consortia: a large industrial demolition company that actually handles C&D waste as its core business, not a consultancy or research body that studies it. This gives them a credibility and access that purely academic partners cannot replicate — real demolition sites, real material volumes, real operational constraints. For any consortium working on circular construction, building decarbonization, or material recovery that needs an industry demolition partner with prior H2020 experience, DELETE is a strong candidate for the "end-of-life practitioner" slot.

Highlights from their portfolio

• WOOL2LOOP
  Addresses a neglected C&D waste fraction — mineral wool insulation — with a full recovery chain from on-site separation through geopolymer reprocessing, directly aligned with DELETE's demolition business and carrying the project's full EC funding allocation of EUR 21,579.
• CIRCuIT
  A large-scale city-level Innovation Action spanning urban mining, design for disassembly, and value chain governance across multiple European cities — notable for its systemic scope and the breadth of consortium partners it brought DELETE into contact with.