Commercial applications for treated material following denaturing of chrysotile asbestos

石棉是一种危险材料，1999年欧洲各地禁止使用石棉。在英国，每年仍有约5000人死于石棉。目前，从世界各地建筑物中去除的所有石棉都被丢弃在垃圾填埋场。热回收已经开发出一种系统，用于变性(破坏)石棉的性质，并使用处理后的材料创造出一种可用于建筑业的新产品。我们目前正在建设一个示范工厂，将于2019年底投产。当示范工厂启用后，它将是世界上第一家拥有商业上可行的石棉处理方法的工厂。我们的目标是拥有世界上第一个循环处理石棉的方法。这项工作的最后一个方面是确定处理后材料的最佳用途。只有在示范工厂投入使用后，才能做到这一点。我们已经确定了六种可以用经过处理的材料制造的产品。这笔赠款将使我们能够确定在技术和商业上最适合生产的一种或多种产品，并使它们获得销售认证。这笔赠款将用于开发和生产最初的原型产品，这些产品将在实验室进行筛选。然后，我们将研究这些产品的市场，并选择技术上和商业上最可行的产品。然后，我们将生产并严格测试这些产品的统计有效样本。一旦它们经过测试，它们将获得认证，并在选定的市场内销售。

Asbestos is a hazardous material the use of which was banned across Europe in 1999\. Asbestos still accounts for about 5,000 deaths a year in the UK. Currently all asbestos that is removed from buildings around the world is disposed of in landfill sites.Thermal Recycling has developed a system for denaturing (destroying the properties of) asbestos and using the treated material to create a new product that can be used in the construction industry. We are currently building a demonstration plant which will be commissioned at the end of 2019\. When the demonstration plant is open it will be the first plant in the world that has a commercially viable approach to disposing of asbestos.We aim to have the world's first circular approach to treating asbestos. The final aspect of this is to identify the best use of the treated material. This can only be done when the demonstration plant has been commissioned.We have identified six products that can be made from the treated material. This grant will enable us to identify the product or products that are most technically and commercially suited to production and to get them certified for sale.The grant will pay to develop and produce initial prototype products which will be screened in a laboratory. We will then research the markets for these products and select the ones that are most technically and commercially viable. We will then produce and intensely test a statistically valid sample of these products. Once they have been tested they will be certified and saleable within the chosen markets.