Technological Centre

April 2019

Misturas, asphalt paver of the EXTRACO group, continues with the Emulcell R & D project to develop new improved and environmentally sustainable bituminous emulsions in the cold.   Emulcell investigates the use of different types of nanocelluloses as emulsifiers for the stabilization of bituminous mixtures in cold, in order to reduce their manufacturing cost and minimize the environmental impacts associated with the manufacture of this type of...

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Europe depends almost 100% on imports from China, South Africa and Russia of rare earths, magnesium and metals from the platinum group.   Critical raw materials are linked to a large part of the EU strategic industrial sectors, that generate more than 30 million jobs.   The technological research coordinated from Galicia will be based on biorecovery from different sources, from mining waste, alumina production, magnesite calcination, catalyst production...

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