Wood

Four years on, a revisit to the Italian wood panel specialist Fantoni reveals how a partnership with Steinert enabled a new global benchmark: furniture-grade MDF with over 70% recycled content in its core.

Scaling up sustainable and biodegradable materials is crucial for the future advancement of European industry. Currently, many bio-based alternatives struggle to compete with established fossil-based chemicals due to challenges in environmental, economic, and societal performance. To overcome this, NEXT-STEP aims to develop recyclable products from wood production residues for everyday applications. New biochemical materials will be developed for shoe soles and insulation materials for construction.

Tomra Recycling has further strengthened its wood segment with the appointment of Alexandre Clairembault who has joined the company as Segment Area Manager – Wood.

Since 1930, Lely Environnement, a French family-owned company, has been offering its services for the collection, transport, processing, recovery, and recycling of waste from industrial waste (C&I). Based in the Isère department in south-east France, the company has two main facilities for the recovery of wood waste collected from companies, local authorities and building industry professionals: its Inoval’Y sorting centre, and the Ecopôle, which has, among its many recovery platforms, one entirely dedicated to sorting wood by grade.

The SusValEn Project transforms lignocellulosic waste into biofuels to produce renewable hydrogen, biomethane and biomethanol, thereby reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

The third-largest panelboard producer in Europe is equipped with Tomra Recycling Sorting’s latest X-ray transmission and deep learning-based wood sorting solutions.

On October 27th, Tomra held a live webcast entitled “The future of wood recycling”. During the live stream, the wood recycling team and a material expert from Ikea outlined how a circular economy for wood can become a reality and a profitable business case for the panel industry.

Steinert wants to present the new performance app, processing of non-ferrous metals including separation of heavy metals, wood sorting and recycling of steel in Munich.

Advancing the recycling industry with its state-of-the-art sensor-based sorting technologies and well-established partnerships with manufacturers of wood-based panels, TOMRA again taps into new opportunities by maximizing the use and recycling of waste wood.

Tomra Recycling has developed a solution that uses deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, in wood recycling applications.

Most often used for stacking goods, Brits are turning to recycling pallets and adapting them into furniture.