Categoria: Innovation

Environment-it, Innovation-it 3 Agosto 2022

Circular Economy: Bioplastics vs. black plastics

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Circular Economy: Bioplastics vs. black plastics

By 2022, a significant share of used plastics – in some countries more than two thirds – will be incinerated or sent to landfill, and only a small share will be recycled (30%). In this context, there is an urgent need to find biodegradable substitute materials for black plastics that cannot be recovered today by traditional optical and sorting techniques, while maintaining their functional properties in industrial applications.

In this context, IRIS Technology presented last July at SIMULTECH 2022, its research “Biodegradation prediction and modelling for decision support”, a mathematical AI model that allows predicting the biodegradation of natural materials of food origin that are candidates to replace carbon compounds currently used in the automotive industry, electronics, plastic bags, among others.

Bioplastics and black plastics

The term bioplastic is a complex one, encompassing materials that come from renewable sources and materials that are biodegradable. While many plastics, under certain natural or man-made conditions, are degradable, not all are recoverable. In particular, black plastics, because of their pigment or colour, escape the traditional infrared systems used in the recycling industry for their separation.

BionTop

The work being carried out by IRIS Technology together with a dozen European entities falls under the umbrella of the European BIOnTop project, which aims to develop a range of bioplastics and complementary coatings and validate their use in food and personal care packaging, determining their environmental impact and the economic viability of an extended substitution project in the industry.

Bioplásticos

Administrations and Companies participating in the project

  • Germany: European Bioplastics EV, Fachhochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen
  • Belgium: Istrazivanjei Razvoj Centre Scientifique & Technique del’Industrie Textile Belge ASBL, Organic Waste Systems NV, Sioen Industries NV
  • Slovenia: BIO-Mi Drustvo S Ogranicenom Odgovornoscu za Proizvodnju
  • Spain: AIMPLAS, Cristobal Meseguer SA, Emsur Macdonell SA, IRIS Technology Solutions SL, Queserías Entrepinares SA, Ubesol SL
  • Estonia: Wearebio OU
  • Italy: Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali, Enco SRL, Laboratori Archa SRL, Movimento Consumatori, Planet Bioplastics SRL, Romei SRL
  • Netherlands: Total Corbion PLA BV
  • Czech Republic: Silon SRO
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Industry-4-0-it, Innovation-it 24 Gennaio 2022

IRIS Technology develops the first industrial system for the chemical control and inspection of melamine boards

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IRIS Technology, a Spanish engineering company that manufactures photonic solutions for online quality control, has developed the first industrial system for real-time quality control of melamine or particle boards with NIR and hyperspectral technology.

 

The wood industry, and consequently the furniture and furnishing industry, is a sector that continues to grow by leaps and bounds worldwide, with a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, still boosted by the increase in consumption during the pandemic. So, not surprisingly, technology is accompanying the industry in this growth by combining production and operations techniques with smart technologies such as photonics, analytics and artificial intelligence brought about by Industry 4.0.

 

The new chemical vision industrial system, manufactured and patented by IRIS Technology, uses NIRS (Near Infrared Spectroscopy) technology and machine learning together with chemometric models to analyse the composition of each melamine board unit produced, non-invasively, It can quantitatively analyse the distribution of the moisture parameter on the impregnation line and classify the curing level of each board in order to detect defects early, correct factory processes and reject or remanufacture boards.

 

Until now, the control of this type of parameters in the melamine production process was only carried out through destructive laboratory methods and visual inspection, implying a high cost for the manufacturer and the difficult -if not impossible- inspection of all the units produced. This new technological application stands as a solution for the inspection of this type of boards, thus reducing defective units, losses, claims and consequently improving the brand image of the manufacturer.

 

For more information please contact IRIS Technology www.iris-eng.com

Contrôle des produits chimiques
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Industry-4-0-it, Innovation-it 14 Maggio 2021

IRIS Technology among the Top 10 Spanish mechanical engineering startups of 2021

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The company IRIS Technology, is awarded in the ranking “Top Mechanical Engineering Startups in Spain 2021”, elaborated by the British portal “startupill.com“, in the position Nº6 of the most innovative companies in the mechanical engineering industry and worth following this year.

Startupill.com bases its selection on the performance of companies in categories such as: innovation, innovative ideas, innovative route to market, innovative product, growth, exponential growth, exponential growth strategy, management and social impact. Look the entire publication here.

About IRIS Technology

IRIS (www.iris-eng.com) is an advanced engineering company that manufactures PAT systems for in-line process and quality control in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries with its own devices registered under the VISUM Devices trademark. As a manufacturer, it realizes tailor-made solutions and ad-hoc configurations for different processes and analytical or control needs, from the actual engineering development to the specific chemometric modeling. In addition, it actively collaborates in numerous EU innovation projects with international partners and has in its staff physicists, mathematicians, chemometricians, opticians, engineers, software developers and highly specialized profiles from the world of science and technology.

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