The World’s first ceramic glazed tiles – made from 100% recycled materials

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• 批准号: 93478
• 金额: $ 8.96万
• 依托单位: ALUSID LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=93478
• 关键词: World; first; ceramic; glazed; tiles

"OUR STORY STARTS WHERE OTHERS FINISH"ALUSID, a spin-out company from the University of Central Lancashire, has been making architectural surfacing products at its Lancashire-based plant, since starting operations in 2016\.Our patented, award-winning technology utilises recycled industrial ceramic, glass and mineral waste, diverting them from landfill or low-value applications, to create unique surfacing products, including tiles and solid surfaces such as tables and bar-tops. To date we have undertaken numerous projects for major brands, such as Harrods, Nandos, Pret-a-Manger, Hilton, H&M, Amazon and Coya Restaurants.ALUSID's current glazed tile range comprise of around 95% recycled content. Our vision for this project is to develop the world's first mass-produced, commercially available tile range made from 100% recycled waste - eliminating any reliance on virgin raw materials. Producing the world's first and only truly sustainable tile, would offer a paradigm shift in ceramic tile manufacturing, whilst providing ALUSID and the UK tile industry a significant commercial advantage over global competitors.In order to achieve market penetration, ALUSID is currently moving towards high-volume manufacturing from a hand-made batch process, aiming to increase production capacity of 95% recycled content tiles, from 4000m2 per annum to 1000m2 per day. COVID-19 permitting, we hope to launch our first mass-produced range early next year through Topps Tiles, the UK's largest tile retailer. Our intention is to centre production in the UK, through collaboration with our project partner Original Style. As one of the UK's few remaining tile manufacturers, Original Style has the kiln capacity and volume manufacturing know-how, to enable the increases in production volumes required by a commercial retailer.This Innovation Award will allow us the opportunity to develop glazes appropriate for fast-fire high-volume manufacturing in collaboration with our project partner, where recycled waste will be utilised to replace virgin raw materials currently used in the preparation of ceramic glazes.A dramatic increase in production capacity, utilising fast-fire kiln technology would mean significant increases in the amount of glaze used. In turn, higher volumes of glaze, offer exponentially greater cost and environmental benefits.Developing glazes made from recycled waste and producing the world's first 100% recycled mass-produced, commercially available tile range would offer significant economic, social and environmental impacts; reduction of excessive landfill practices, reduction of environmental impacts associated with the extraction and transportation of virgin raw materials, a unique and timely eco-tile to the global tile market, and the safeguarding of UK jobs.

中央兰开夏大学的分支公司ALUSID自2016年开始运营以来，一直在兰开夏郡的工厂生产建筑表面处理产品。我们屡获殊荣的专利技术利用回收的工业陶瓷、玻璃和矿物废物，将它们从垃圾填埋场或低价值应用中分流出来，创造出独特的表面处理产品，包括瓷砖和固体表面，如桌子和吧台。到目前为止，我们已经承接了许多大品牌的项目，如哈罗德、南多斯、Pret-a-Manger、希尔顿、H&M、亚马逊和Coya Restaurants。ALUSID目前的釉面砖系列包含大约95%的回收成分。我们对该项目的愿景是开发世界上第一个批量生产的、可商业使用的瓷砖系列，该系列瓷砖由100%回收的废物制成--消除了对原始原材料的任何依赖。生产世界上第一个也是唯一一个真正可持续发展的瓷砖，将带来瓷砖制造的范式转变，同时为ALUSID和英国瓷砖行业提供相对于全球竞争对手的显著商业优势。为了实现市场渗透，ALUSID目前正从手工批量生产转向大批量生产，目标是将95%的可回收瓷砖生产能力从每年4000平方米提高到每天1000平方米。如果新冠肺炎允许，我们希望明年初通过英国最大的瓷砖零售商Topps Tiles推出我们的第一个量产系列。我们的意图是通过与我们的项目合作伙伴Origin Style合作，将生产中心设在英国。作为英国仅存的几家瓷砖制造商之一，Origin Style拥有窑能力和批量制造技术，能够满足商业零售商的需求。这个创新奖将使我们有机会与我们的项目合作伙伴合作，开发适合快速大规模生产的釉，其中回收的废物将被用于取代目前用于制备陶瓷釉的原始原材料。生产能力的显著提高，利用快火窑技术将意味着釉使用量的显著增加。反过来，更多的釉量会带来成倍增长的成本和环境效益。开发由回收废物制成的釉料并生产世界上第一个100%可回收的批量生产、商业可用的瓷砖系列将带来显著的经济、社会和环境影响；减少过度的垃圾填埋做法，减少与提取和运输原始原材料相关的环境影响，为全球瓷砖市场提供独特和及时的生态瓷砖，并保护英国的就业机会。