Sustainable innovation: RadiciGroup teams up with Officine Maccaferri and SAMP on the LIFE-Inno.Pro.Wire project

Objective of LIFE-Inno.Pro.Wire: to design an innovative process with a lower environmental impact for producing extruded steel wire to be used in metal net protection and containment structures.

LIFE-Inno.Pro.Wire, a sustainable innovation challenge. This all-Italian pilot project, stemming from a partnership between two major Italian industrial multinationals, Maccaferri Industrial Group and RadiciGroup, has been awarded financial support for a period of 3 years by the European Commission’s LIFE+ programme, the European financial Instrument for the environment.

The LIFE-Inno.Pro.Wire project aims to design an innovative process with lower environmental impact for producing extruded steel wire to be used in making metal net protection and containment structures. The sustainability aspect of the project is the use of polyamide 6 (PA6 engineering plastics from the RADILON® range) as a viable alternative to PVC for coating the steel wire.

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27 August 2014