The overall purpose of the LIFE 5ReFRACT project is to extend the “4R” approach to a “5R” paradigm (reduce-reuse- remanufacture-recycle-re-educate) and apply it to the steel sector and refractories market, thus achieving an integral valorisation of refractory materials.
The project LIFE 5 Refract defines the means and methods to ensure the separation of waste according to its further use.
Specific collection areas are prepared in each point of generation, including deposits for its classification.
This is the previous situation of the refractory waste management. Do not miss the video of the first stages of management that we will post next week.
The project aims at implementing efficient practices for the exploitation of refractory materials and at raising awareness about their use among the European iron and steel sector.
Here you have a video of the first stages of refractory management within the project.
The LIFE 5 Refract project has achieved, for the first time, the systematic and comprehensive valorization of refractory residues generated in a steel mill, both based on alumina and based on magnesia.
The industrial tests observed in the following video and developed at Sidenor, have demonstrated the technical feasibility of incorporating a high content of refractory residue in the fabrication of new refractory materials applied at non-critical points in the process.
Objective audience: industry and administration at national level
Number of attendees: 4.817 entities, 1.087 universities and research centres 1.946 public and private companies, 1.291 entities from the tertiary sector, 493 city halls