INDUSTRIAS TERMOPLASTICAS VALENCIANAS, S.A.

Their core work

INTERVAL is a Spanish thermoplastics manufacturer based in Valencia — a company that physically produces plastic products and components, not a research lab. Their H2020 participation shows they have oriented part of their production toward sustainable materials: recycled plastics reformulated into durable-yet-compostable products, and plastic packaging designed for circular economy reintegration. They bring industrial manufacturing capacity and real production-line knowledge to research consortia, which makes them a practical implementation partner rather than a technology developer. Their value in any collaboration is the ability to take a sustainable plastics concept from lab to manufactured product.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

With only two projects spanning 2015 to 2021, the trajectory is narrow but readable: they started with an internally-driven feasibility study on their own product line (compostable products from recycled input), then joined a larger consortium tackling systemic plastic packaging waste — a step from product to system. This suggests a deliberate move from isolated product innovation toward embedding themselves in circular economy networks where sorting, collection, and reprocessing are treated as one chain. No keyword data exists in CORDIS records to confirm finer shifts in technical focus, so this reading is based solely on project scope and role changes.

INTERVAL appears to be positioning itself as an industrial node within circular plastics networks — moving beyond making a sustainable product toward becoming part of the infrastructure that closes the plastic packaging loop.

How they like to work

They have both led a project (ReDurComp, as coordinator) and joined as an industrial partner (PlastiCircle). The coordinator role was a small SME Instrument Phase 1 feasibility study — typically a solo or near-solo exercise — suggesting their leadership experience is limited to short, self-contained work. Their more substantial H2020 engagement was as a participating manufacturer in a multi-partner Innovation Action, which better reflects how external partners would likely engage with them: as an industrial contributor with production expertise rather than a project driver.

INTERVAL has collaborated with 21 unique partners across 9 countries, a network almost entirely explained by their participation in PlastiCircle — a large pan-European Innovation Action. Their direct relationship-building is moderate for an SME of this size, but the network breadth reflects the consortium they joined rather than independently developed ties.

What sets them apart

INTERVAL's differentiator is that they are an actual manufacturer, not a research institute studying plastics. For any consortium needing to demonstrate industrial applicability — a pilot line, a real production context, a manufacturing partner who can validate that a sustainable material actually works at scale — they fill a role that universities and research centers cannot. Within Spain's Valencia region, which has a significant plastics processing industry, they represent a locally-rooted industrial partner with documented commitment to sustainability goals through their H2020 record.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PlastiCircle
  Their largest project by far (€150,850, four years), this Innovation Action addressed the full plastic packaging waste chain at European scale — giving INTERVAL exposure to consortium-level circular economy work well beyond a single company's scope.
• ReDurComp
  Their only coordinator role — an SME Instrument Phase 1 feasibility study they initiated themselves, signaling that the shift toward recycled and compostable plastics was a strategic business decision, not just an opportunity to join someone else's project.