ELLINIKI LEFKOLITHI ANONYMOS METALLEFTIKI VIOMIHANIKI NAFTILIAKI KAI EMPORIKI ETERIA (Grecian Magnesite Mining Industrial Shipping and Commercial Company Societe Anonyme)

Their core work

Grecian Magnesite is a Greek industrial mining company specializing in magnesite extraction and processing, one of the key producers of magnesia-based products in Europe. Their core business revolves around mineral processing — from mining and beneficiation to producing refractory and industrial-grade magnesia used in steelmaking, cement, and chemical industries. In H2020 they contributed industrial expertise in mineral flotation, process optimization, energy efficiency in heavy industry, and more recently in CO2 capture technologies relevant to their cement and magnesia production lines.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their early H2020 work (2015-2018) centered on process optimization and energy efficiency — making existing industrial operations run better through monitoring, waste heat recovery, and flexible energy management. From 2019 onward, the focus shifted decisively toward environmental sustainability: first advancing fine particle flotation to unlock lower-grade mineral deposits, then moving into CO2 capture and conversion for industrial decarbonization. This trajectory mirrors the broader European push to decarbonize energy-intensive industries like mining and cement production.

Grecian Magnesite is positioning itself as a test-bed and industrial partner for decarbonization technologies in the minerals and cement sector, making them increasingly relevant for green industry consortia.

How they like to work

Grecian Magnesite participates exclusively as a partner, never as coordinator — consistent with a large industrial company that contributes real-world facilities, process data, and application-domain expertise rather than managing research agendas. With 68 unique partners across 21 countries in just 4 projects, they work in large, multi-national consortia typical of ambitious RIA and IA projects. This signals they are comfortable operating in complex international partnerships and can provide industrial validation sites for research outcomes.

Despite only 4 projects, Grecian Magnesite has built a broad network of 68 partners across 21 European countries, reflecting participation in large-scale industrial research consortia. Their reach spans most of the EU, with no narrow geographic concentration.

What sets them apart

Grecian Magnesite brings something rare to EU consortia: a working, large-scale mineral processing operation that can serve as a real industrial demonstration site for new technologies — from flotation methods to CO2 capture. Unlike universities or research institutes, they offer direct access to production-scale magnesia and mineral processing infrastructure in a sector (refractory minerals) that has few comparable EU-based players. For any project needing to validate environmental or process technologies in a heavy-industry mining context, they are a natural partner.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ConsenCUS
  Their most recent and strategically significant project, tackling CO2 capture in cement and magnesia production — directly aligned with EU Green Deal priorities and their own decarbonization roadmap.
• FineFuture
  Directly tied to their core mining business, addressing the future challenge of extracting value from increasingly fine-grained mineral deposits through advanced flotation technologies.
• BAMBOO
  Their largest funded project (EUR 298,159), focused on cross-sector energy flexibility and waste valorization in energy-intensive industries.