Contento Trade srl

Contento Trade is a private and accredited Research Centre founded in 1987 by Maria Pia Contento. The company operates in the environmental sector including processes optimisation, LCA, energy use optimisation, waste, residues and byproducts valorisation, and new products and materials creation. Contento Trade develops new systems for the industrial waste recycling, reuse and valorisation. It is a leading European expert in ashes valorisation and designed aggregates. Contento Trade develops new materials for the building industry and multiple other industrial applications. It also promotes innovation in food processing for agrifood and sea food industry. R&D unit combines Advanced Instant Controlled Decompression (AICD), thermic and chemical technologies according to the specific application. Contento Trade offers analysis and innovative problem solving for many production cycles as well as flexible technological solutions, easily inserted into an existing industrial line while optimising various key macro-processes. Food sector solutions such as debacterisation, swell-drying, desiccation, extraction for frozen, fresh, desiccated, and liquid products can be applied directly at an optimal process points. Construction sector solutions include R&D for demolition, ceramisation, granulation, inertisation, stabilisation, and expansion processes. Contento Trade also operates as a test facility, reference Laboratory, industrial pilot units producer and offers qualified services of environmental strategic consulting. It is open to cooperation and partnership for new products and sustainable supply chain development, industrial prototyping and layout design for technological transfer with costs of industrialisation.