Energygreen Gas Almazán, S.L.

Almazán (Soria) – Spain
https://www.energygreengas.es/

Energygreen Gas Almazan S.L. (EGA) is a new company dedicated to the management of non-hazardous waste through different technologies such as anaerobic digestion and rendering.

EGA belongs 100% to Energygreen Tratamientos Medioambientales S.L. whose main business focuses on the management of waste by composting, with plants in Valladolid and Vizcaya, and on the purification of effluents from the agro-food industry through different technologies such as anaerobic digestion, electrocoagulation or catalytic oxidation.

EGA has its facilities in Almazán (Soria) consisting of an industrial complex where the aforementioned technologies are integrated and where a composting plant is currently being built in order to provide an integral and sustainable service in waste management.

The company has a team of professionals in the field of engineering and chemistry with extensive experience in process and plant design, plant operation and R & D project management.

Granja Otivar, S.L.

Alcalá de Guadaira (Sevilla) - Spain

Granja Otivar S.L. (OTIVAR) is a company located in Seville (Spain) and with an experience of 25 years in transformation and valorization of animal by-products (ABPs). The company has two rendering plants for the treatment of category 3 animal by-products in Seville and Zaragoza, with a treatment capacity of 50,000 and 70,000 tons/year, respectively. The final product obtained in both plants are fats and meat bone meals (MBM), currently used for animal feed specifically for pets and aquaculture.

Our approach to the sustainability is based on continuous investments in new projects and technologies that allow us:

• To make more efficient use of ABPs,
• To save resources, like water
• To find higher value applications and
• To adapt our industrial plants to new legislative and market demands.

Within LIFE byProtVal project, OTIVAR is interested in the recovery of proteins from the wastewater strains generated in its different production lines.

Tumpler Española, S.A.

Barberà del Vallès (Barcelona) – Spain
trumpler.es

TRUMPLER is a multinational Company dedicated to the design, synthesis, production and commercialization of leather chemicals and fertilisers.
Trumpler is producing and selling chemicals that support leather processing from earlier stages after animal slaughtering to the final coatings in order to fit leather goods with latest trends in fashion and quality demands.

Trumpler places great value not only the quality of our products but also on the environment. More than over 40 % of the raw materials used in the manufacture of our products come from readily renewable resources such as vegetable oils. Thus lending our support to the efforts made in the protection of our climate by reducing CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions. In addition we constantly strive to develop environmentally friendly non-polluting products and process.

Leather goods produced with TRUMPLER chemicals are present in many markets as shoes, bags, auto, garment and many other applications.
TRUMPLER is present all around the world and is having own production facilities in many countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and China).

INESCOP

Elda (Alicante) – Spain
inescop.es

INESCOP is a centre for technology and innovation. Established in 1971, it currently has the legal status of a non-profit, private association of companies. It has broad experience in providing technology services, transferring knowledge and carrying out research on technical topics that are of interest to the industry.

INESCOP has cross-cutting technological capabilities that can be applied to numerous sectors, although it was originally set up and specialised for the footwear sector. To this end, it has the required means to meet scientific and technical needs of companies in the following fields: quality & comfort, healthcare technologies, Industry 4.0, advanced manufacturing, collaborative robotics, 3D design and printing, circular economy, sustainable materials, adhesives, biotechnology, nanotechnology, microencapsulation and competitive intelligence.

INESCOP renders its services to over 1,000 companies every year. It also coordinates and participates in multiple regional, national and European R&D projects awarded in competitive calls.

More precisely, the Environmental Department at INESCOP develops different activities within the environmental field with the aim to provide a comprehensive solution to companies in the footwear and related industries: Environmental Management Systems, Clean Tanning Technologies, atmospheric and noise emissions, Ecological Labelling, sewage, industrial waste, etc. As a way of example, through the LIFE08 ENV/E/000147 SHOELAW Project, INESCOP has developed an electronic tool to promote the compliance with European Environmental regulations within the footwear sector.

In the field of the proposal, the Technology Department of INESCOP has been deeply involved in the participation and coordination of European research projects related to the recovery of proteins from industrial wastes, such as LIFE12 ENV/ES/000568 microTAN and FP7-ENV.2013.6.3-2-6.39 PILOT-ABP projects.