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GOMAZKO
INDUSTRIAL NETWORK FOR THE RUBBER SECTOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY
ITS SHAPE, SIZE, COMPOSITION AND THERMOSTABLE NATURE make it diffi cult to manage technical and industrial rubber waste, which, except for energy recovery of some streams, has no viable solution in the Basque Country. This post-industrial rubber waste does not come from tyres and it is normally generated by SMEs that produce up to 200 tonnes of waste per year in most cases. These companies lack the possibility of sorting waste into the different types of rubber families they work with, and the process becomes even more diffi cult due to the prevalence of black-coloured products. The volume of this type of waste generated in the Basque Country amounts to 2,000 tonnes per year, i.e., 20% of technical rubber waste at national level.
POLIELASTIC, a developer and manufacturer of all types of rubber compounds, has led GOMAZKO, with the collaboration of the rubber parts manufacturer VULCANIZADOS ALGOR, the waste management company ZORROZA, GAIKER Technology Centre and the circular economy specialist consultancy, ZICLA.
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