Italy’s greenLIFE project features at bioeconomy conference
02/11/2016
In 2014, two of the biggest tanners in the Arzignano cluster, Gruppo Dani and Gruppo Mastrotto, formally launched the project, working with three technical partners: chemical supplier Ikem, biotechnology firm Ilsa and the cluster’s wastewater treatment service provider, Acque del Chiampo. Half of the funding for greenLIFE has come from the European Union.
It was the industrial director of Ilsa, Franco Cavazza, who presented greenLIFE at the forum, giving his presentation the title of ‘Closing the loop within Italian tanneries’.
He explained that aspects of greenLIFE likely to be of particular interest to people interested in the bioeconomy include the reuse of some of the proteins that are by-products of the leather manufacturing proecss in agriculture and, in reverse, the use of polymers derived from waste from agriculture and food production in the tanning process.
World Leather will publish a series of articles about greenLIFE in the course of 2017.
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