BADANA

Development of an automated process to extract fibres from the waste of banana food production for exploitation as a sustainable reinforcement in injection- and rotomoulded products

 Coordinatore SMITHERS RAPRA AND SMITHERS PIRA LIMITED 

 Organization address address: Shrewsbury Road
city: SHREWSBURY
postcode: SY4 4NR

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Julia
Cognome: Pickering
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1939 252301
Fax: +44 1939 251118

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 1˙002˙216 €
 EC contributo 770˙409 €
 Programma FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
 Code Call FP7-SME-2008-1
 Funding Scheme BSG-SME
 Anno di inizio 2009
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2009-07-01   -   2011-06-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    SMITHERS RAPRA AND SMITHERS PIRA LIMITED

 Organization address address: Shrewsbury Road
city: SHREWSBURY
postcode: SY4 4NR

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Julia
Cognome: Pickering
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1939 252301
Fax: +44 1939 251118

UK (SHREWSBURY) coordinator 46˙495.00
2    ROTOTEK LTD

 Organization address address: "Sylvan Way, Old Great North Road"
city: NEWARK
postcode: NG24 3UT

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Martin
Cognome: Spencer
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1636 611 959
Fax: +44 1636 707 369

UK (NEWARK) participant 165˙754.00
3    CMB Colorex Master Batches B.V.

 Organization address address: Achterdijk 12
city: Helmond
postcode: 5705 CB

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Henry
Cognome: Van Tilburg
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 492 524254
Fax: +31 492 528784

NL (Helmond) participant 143˙060.00
4    Grupo Regional de Cooperativas Plataneras del Archipielago Canario

 Organization address address: Avenida de Anaga 11
city: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
postcode: 38001

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Bernardo
Cognome: Hernández Diáz
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 922 286 300
Fax: +34 922 286 355

ES (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) participant 139˙659.00
5    "PEVA Ipari, Kereskedelmi es Szolgaltato Kft"

 Organization address address: Bajcsy-Zs. 7/a
city: Dabas
postcode: 2370

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Peter
Cognome: Ollar
Email: send email
Telefono: +36 1 363 9083
Fax: +36 1 460 9505

HU (Dabas) participant 134˙320.00
6    SIVEL Limited

 Organization address address: ZAHARY STOYANOV STREET 77
city: DOBRICH
postcode: 9300

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Simeon
Cognome: Simeonov
Email: send email
Telefono: +359 888 400 368
Fax: +359 58 604 832

BG (DOBRICH) participant 134˙320.00
7    BSH ELECTRODOMESTICOS ESPANA SA

 Organization address address: CALLE ITAROA 1
city: HUARTE - PAMPLONA
postcode: 31620

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Manuel
Cognome: Aldea Lomero
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 676 660 171
Fax: +34 976 578360

ES (HUARTE - PAMPLONA) participant 3˙526.00
8    GRUPO ANTOLIN-INGENIERIA SA

 Organization address address: "CARRETERA MADRID IRUN KM 244,8"
city: BURGOS
postcode: 9007

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Virginia
Cognome: Morales Bombín
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 947 477890
Fax: +34 947 474847

ES (BURGOS) participant 3˙275.00
9    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

 Organization address address: CALLE SERRANO 117
city: MADRID
postcode: 28006

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Carlos Manuel
Cognome: Abad Ruiz
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 91 566 8852
Fax: +34 91 566 89 13

ES (MADRID) participant 0.00
10    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST

 Organization address address: University Road
city: BELFAST
postcode: BT7 1NN

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Pauline
Cognome: Mccann
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 28 9097 3229
Fax: +44 28 9097 5182

UK (BELFAST) participant 0.00
11    UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA

 Organization address address: C/ Juan de Quesada 30
city: LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
postcode: 35001

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Mario Domingo
Cognome: Monzón Verona
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 928 458618
Fax: +34 928 451484

ES (LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA) participant 0.00
12    UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA

 Organization address address: CALLE PEDRO CERBUNA 12
city: Zaragoza
postcode: 50009

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Jesús
Cognome: Fuentelsaz
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 976 761 970
Fax: +34 976 761 9 69

ES (Zaragoza) participant 0.00

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badana    plant    goods    automotive    polymer    moulded    materials    fish    plants    wastes    bananas    composites    fibre    waste    sustainable    banana    natural    food    smes    provides    fodder   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'18% of the European consumption of bananas is produced in Canary Islands. Around 10 million banana plants are grown annually in Gran Canaria. The fibre obtained from the superposed layers of the pseudo-stem is called badana. In the past, the banana plant waste was used as a support element for tomato plants, and, for some decades, it was used in handicrafts such as basket-making and artificial flowers. The plant waste was used as fodder for cattle and goats, but factory farming has replaced it by pre-digested fodder. Today, however, these vegetable wastes are deposited in ravines where they become decomposition material. An estimated 25,000 tonnes per annum of natural fibre is found in this waste.

The BADANA project will develop a process to extract high-quality natural fibre from this waste and to exploit the fibres’ properties in polymer composites to be used in rotational- and injection-moulded products. This will be for the benefit of SMEs involved in the production of bananas and SMEs that supply OEMs and end-users with sustainable moulded composite products in the automotive, packaging, and consumer goods industries. This will provide the SMEs new market opportunities through satisfying the rapidly-growing demand of product manufacturers for ecoaesthetic (green) materials. The fibre production will be integrated in a food production cycle where a fish culture in dams provides water to banana cultivation. The fish will be fed with flour made from banana wastes. This provides a truly sustainable process of materials production that is complementary to existing food production practices and will not displace food production.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Europeans eat a lot of bananas. Thanks to new extraction and processing technology, all that waste fibre from banana plants may soon be used in polymer composites for products in the automotive and consumer goods sectors.

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