Imagine if old furniture and construction debris weren't just trash, but a goldmine of ingredients. This project uses robots and smart chemistry to sort through the mess and pull out the good stuff. It turns old wood into things like high-end plastics, cleaning agents, and new building materials instead of just burning them.
Construction and furniture wood waste is mostly burned or landfilled, wasting valuable raw materials and increasing environmental costs.
A robot-assisted sorting system, chemical recovery processes for polyols and lignin, and digital tools like a Digital Product Passport for material tracking.
If you are a waste management firm dealing with massive amounts of mixed wood debris—this project developed advanced sorting using human-robot collaboration that allows you to separate high-quality wood from trash. This transforms a disposal cost into a revenue stream by selling sorted materials.
If you are a chemical producer dealing with high costs of virgin raw materials—this project developed bioremediation and chemical processes to recover polyols and lignin from waste wood. You can now produce detergents and biopolymers using recycled wood waste.
If you are a manufacturer dealing with strict circular economy regulations—this project developed a way to create bio-composite building materials from recovered cellulose fibers. This reduces your reliance on virgin timber and lowers your environmental footprint.
Based on available project data, specific pricing or implementation costs are not provided.
The project is currently at TRL5, meaning it is moving from laboratory validation to development in a simulated environment, with 3 large-scale use cases planned for demonstration.
Based on available project data, specific licensing terms are not mentioned, though the project includes a supportive framework for business models.
It directly supports the EU Circular Economy Action Plan by providing a Digital Product Passport and a harmonized waste wood classification scheme.
The project runs from 2024-01-01 to 2027-12-31, with TRL5 development occurring between months 9 and 18.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward commercial application, with an industry ratio of 41% (11 companies, including 7 SMEs). With 27 partners across 11 countries, the project has a strong European footprint, balancing academic research (12 entities) with industrial validation, which suggests a high likelihood of market-driven outcomes.
Contact ICCS (Erevnitiko Panepistimiako Institutou Systimon Epikoinonion kai Ypologiston) in Greece.
Contact us to connect with the W2W consortium for pilot opportunities in wood upcycling.
