PUReSmart

PUReSmart seeks ways of transitioning from the current linear lifecycle of polyurethane (PU) products to a circular economy model.

 

The PUReSmart consortium is an end-to-end collaboration spanning the entire polyurethane reprocessing value chain and gathering nine partners from six different countries. PUReSmart is coordinated by the Belgian company Recticel and was launched on 1 January 2019 for a duration of four years. It is supported by EUR 6 million in funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (project N° 814543).

9 partners

from 6 European countries

220 000 tons

of PU foam diverted from landfill per year

30 %

Reduce Carbon footprint of PU foam by at least 30 %

20 full time jobs

for each 6000 Ton recycled product per year

RECENT NEWS & EVENTS

Mar302023

Success of the project

PU sector, PUReSmart Results

RECTICEL / Recticel Engineered Foams and COVESTRO communicate about the success of the project and its interest for the circularity of the PU. You can read some articles about it: in De Tijd (Dutch): “Covestro en Recticel boeken succes met recyclageproject voor matrassen” https://www.tijd.be/ondernemen/chemie/Covestro-en-Recticel-boeken-succes-met-recyclageproject-voor-matrassen/10456689   in L’Echo (French) : « Recticel et Covestro vont fabriquer les matelas…

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Feb92023

Publication of white paper

PU sector, PUReSmart Results

KU Leuven disseminated the last project Our white paper is meant as communication output targeting policy makers and industrial stakeholders, focused on explaining the results of the sustainability assessment of the PUReSmart technologies, in light of the current and upcoming policies, with the ultimate goal of supporting circular economy. The document is built upon the…

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Jan102023

Publication of our fifth and final MOOC

PU sector, PUReSmart Results

KU Leuven disseminated the last project video, about “Cradle-to-cradle: Mattress waste as a renewable resource?”. You can watch it on youtube. Old mattresses could be a re-used as a resource to produce new high quality polyurethane materials. In the EU PureSMART process, KULeuven discovered a process to split the waste material in an energy-efficient way.…

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