The Paperchain Project

paperChain—the collaborative research and innovation project funded under the European Union´s H2020 programme, and coordinated by Acciona Construction. The paperChain Project “New Niche Markets for the Pulp and Paper Industry Waste based on circular economy approaches” intends to demonstrate the technical and environmental feasibility (TEF) of using different streams—generated in the Pulp & Paper Industry—as secondary raw material, with the aim of becoming competitive substitutes for the primary raw materials in near future. This Project includes five large-scale demonstrators or demo-cases in different operational environments: Construction in Portugal (asphalt mixtures and concrete in roads), Spain (stabilised-soil layers in roads) and Slovenia (composite materials for slide stabilization in railways); Chemical in Sweden (bio-ethanol for secondary chemicals); and Mining in Sweden (sealing layers for reactive spoil). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under grant agreement N° 730305