On 6th and 7th July 2022 it will be held, in person, the M12 General Meeting of MERLIN, at ITENE facilities, in Paterna, Valencia, Spain. The project partners will meet in person for the first time since the beginning of MERLIN. MERLIN's General Meeting will surely be the perfect occasion for the partners to present the results
MERLIN is now officially present, as Good Practice, on the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform. A joint initiative by the European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform is a virtual open space whose aim is to promote the transition to a circular economy by facilitating policy dialogue
ROVIMATICA is currently working on the development of an AI based camera system that can distinguish between rigid and flexible plastic waste. The company is also working on robotic solution to collect the sorted materials from the conveyor line, at the recycling plant. Concerning the visual sorting of the materials, ROVIMATICA is developing an inline
On 27 April 2022, a delegation of the OECD visited ITENE´s facilities and MERLIN’s Project Coordinator, José Luis Diéguez, accurately explained the work performed under the MERLIN project. On a tour of ITENE’s laboratories and pilot plants, the OECD delegation - OCDE headed by Claire Charbit, Head of the Territorial Dialogues and Migration Unit at
MERLIN aims to create promising technologies and processes to improve the sorting, delamination and recycling of rigid and flexible multi-layer plastic packaging waste, from post-consumer and post-industrial sources, to obtain new high-performance packaging solutions for the food packaging industry and move towards a more circular economy. To this end, IRIS is working on two main
The project, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme and coordinated by the research centre, brings together 14 partners with a common goal: the development of disruptive processes for the sorting, delamination and recycling of multilayer rigid and flexible plastic packaging. The ITENE research centre is working on the development of new delamination processes that allow
On 22 February 2022, His Majesty the King of Spain Felipe VI has visited the technological centre ITENE, where he has known first-hand "the good work" that the institute carries out and has recognized its "commitment to R&D&I" as "a magnificent exponent of innovation and progress of the Valencian Community", as the monarch has highlighted
As one of the first steps to effectively engaging different stakeholders, the CSCP developed a questionnaire to gauge the opportunities and barriers facing different actors in the multi-layer packaging plastic waste value chain. The questionnaire is intended to help create a comprehensive view of the value chain and its key stakeholders. This will in turn
Coordinated by the Spanish research centre ITENE, MERLIN is the Horizon 2020 project focused on the development of disruptive processes for the sorting, delamination and recycling of rigid and flexible multi-layer plastic packaging. Officially started on June 1st 2021, MERLIN project has put together 14 partners (sorting technology providers, recyclers, research centres, social innovation experts
On the 30th of September 2021, MERLIN, the new Horizon 2020 project, participated to the Cluster Meeting of European projects contributing to the EU Plastic Strategy, organized by the European Research Executive Agency (REA). The meeting, which took place in a completely virtual mode, presented a dozen European projects that aim to transform the way plastic
Duration: 36 Months
Start date: 01 June 2021
Call: H2020-SC5-2020-2
Topic: CE-SC5-24-2020 – IMPROVING THE SORTING, SEPARATION AND RECYCLING OF COMPOSITE AND MULTI-LAYER MATERIALS
Project coordinator: Mr. Cesar Aliaga (ITENE)
E-mail: info@merlinproject.eu
From 8 to 11 November 2022, MERLIN has participated to ECOMONDO 2022, in Rimini, Italy. More precisely, MERLIN has be
On September 13th & 14th , a Summer School & Training Session (SS/T) in the
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003883
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