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RE4Industry Knowledge Transfer Webinar “Greening the Lime Industry: Challenges and Opportunities for Decarbonisation” 

The RE4Industry Project recently hosted a Knowledge Transfer Webinar on the topic of “Grüne Kalkindustrie: Herausforderungen und Chancen” (Greening the Lime Industry: Challenges and Opportunities). The event, which took place on June 23rd, attracted a diverse audience of over 30 participants from the industry and research sectors. The webinar provided valuable insights into the lime industry’s transition towards a greener future and highlighted the role of biomass solutions in achieving decarbonisation goals. The RE4Industry Project Read more…

By Ana Sofia Praxedes, ago

RE4Industry’s Final Event in Brussels

Brussels, June 20th 2023  After three exciting years, RE4Industry project held its final event in Brussels, “Capturing competitiveness: carbon removal, renewable energies, and feedstock efficiency for EIIs”, at the Residence Palace, in the margins of the European Sustainable Energy Week. The event brought together around 50 experts from the energy transition field, and different sectors, to discuss the future of the European Industry, having into account the decarbonisation goals set by the European Union.  Alessandro Read more…

By Ana Sofia Praxedes, ago

RE4Industry Final event: Capturing competitiveness: carbon removal, renewable energies, and feedstock efficiency for EIIs

Last week, RE4Industry held its final event in the margins of the European Sustainable Energy Week, at the Residence Palace, Brussels. It brought together about 50 experts to discuss the future of the European Industry, taking into account the decarbonisation plans set by the European Union.  Alessandro Polito, representing DG Energy, gave the introductory speech and mentioned the importance of renewables, crucial to fighting climate change and creating jobs, growth, and boosting innovation and competitiveness. Hoping that the inclusion, for the first time, of Read more…

By Ana Sofia Praxedes, ago

RE4Industry Contribution at the EUBCE

In the framework of the 31st EUBCE conference, on the 6th of June a dedicated parallel event titled “Bioenergy Solutions for Decarbonization of Energy Intensive Industries” was successfully organized as part of the RE4Industry project in Bologna, attracting over 50 participants from around the world. The session commenced with an overview of the RE4Industry Project, highlighting its activities and showcasing results, followed by the presentation of successful case examples from energy-intensive industries (EIIs). The focus then Read more…

By Ana Sofia Praxedes, ago

Expert interview with Wim Van der Stricht

Wim Van der Stricht has participated in the RE4Industry project describing two projects developed at ArcelorMittal plant in Ghent, Belgium. These projects are an excellent example of the climate action initiatives to facilitate the energy-intensive industry (EII) sector in Europe and a smooth and more secure transition to the adoption of Renewable Energies (RE).  Wim holds a PhD by Ghent University in Engineering. He is Responsible for the Technology Strategy – CO2 and circular economy at Read more…

By Ana Sofia Praxedes, ago

100 Prozent Erneuerbare für die energieintensive Industrie (EII)

Energieintensive Industrien (EII) müssen ihre Abhängigkeit von fossilen Brennstoffen drastisch reduzieren, will die EU bis 2050 klimaneutral sein. Ein Konsortium, bestehend aus Vertreter*innen der Industrie, von Interessensverbänden und der Wissenschaft, zeigt Lösungen, wie der Umstieg auf 100 Prozent erneuerbare Energien gelingt. Die Stahl-, Chemie-, Zellstoff- und Papier- oder die Zementindustrie – subsumiert unter dem Begriff energieintensive Industrie oder EII – spielen eine Schlüsselrolle auf dem Weg zu Klimaneutralität bis 2050. Auf die EII entfällt aktuell Read more…

By Erick Agullo Lopez, ago

RE4Industry Green Hydrogen Symposium

The RE4Industry symposium “Uptake of Green Hydrogen for EIIs” took place at the premises of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Garching on 22 March 2023. After a tour-de-table introducing all 20 participants, the symposium was opened by Dr Rainer Janssen from WIP who thanked all speakers and participants and highlighted the importance of discussing ongoing R&I in the field of green hydrogen as well as the most promising application opportunities in EIIs in Read more…

By Ana Sofia Praxedes, ago

5th Project General Assembly 

Munich, March 2023 RE4Industry held in Germany, Munich, its 5th General Assembly and Consortium meeting, having been able to bring together at least one representative of each of the Consortium partners. Being a hybrid event, some were still able to join online. For three days, the Consortium gathered to debate and update each other on the last activities performed in the framework of the project and took the chance as well to align expectations and actions Read more…

By Ana Sofia Praxedes, ago

RE4Industry partners gathered in Ghent to discuss the steel sector decarbonisation and visit the Torero and Steelanol projects at ArcelorMittal’s plant

Day 1: Workshop in Ghent  RE4Industry partners attended the workshop “Prospects of biocoal for the metallurgical industry”. A scientific and technological seminar was held in Ghent to discuss the potential use of biomass in the iron and steel sector as a means to substitute coal. Using biochar produced from torrefied biomass presents a promising solution for the industry to reduce its intensive carbon footprint. Biochar is produced by heating biomass to a high temperature in Read more…

By Ana Sofia Praxedes, ago

RE4Industry “Fossil-Free Future of Energy Intensive Industries” workshop

On The 23rd of November 2022, the workshop “Fossil-Free Future of Energy Intensive Industries” was organised by Bioenergy Europe in the framework of their annual conference: the European Bioenergy Future 2022. After a short presentation of the project by Alessandro Carmona, researcher in the biomass valorisation team at CIRCE (coordinator of the project), Jérémie Geelen from Bioenergy Europe presented the results of the sectoral consultation that was carried out in the framework of the project. This Read more…

By Ana Sofia Praxedes, ago
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