AMBIANCE | Advanced Manufacturing of Bio-Based Products for Urban outdoor applications through Innovative characterization, digital technologies and circular approach

Summary

By applying a circularity-by-design approach, the AMBIANCE project aims to develop new and advanced bio-based products, characterized by a high or total bio-based material content and taking into account the different alternatives for recirculation such as the different types of reuses, remanufacturing, recycling, biodegradation or energy recovery to enhance sustainable models. Such approach will be coupled to the optimization of the mechanical properties for particular applications, e.g. durability for outdoors urban furniture or sports and leisure products, taking into consideration the whole lifecycle.

Special attention will be paid to the optimization of product manufacturing of bio-based materials, which will require tuning of material composition and processes (extrusion, large-scale additive manufacturing, compression moulding) for different bio-based materials. Besides, the use of Digital Twin technologies will enhance the development of materials and products and the remanufacturing of such bio-based goods, and it will optimize manufacturing processes and enhance production quality of such novel applications by leveraging IoT and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

AMBIANCE's impact will be two-fold: firstly we will showcase disruptively innovative bio-based products in different sectors and manufacturing processes, while we will demonstrate applicability in daily-life products, starring green urban areas that will lead the transition to sustainability. The setting proposed by AMBIANCE will directly result in the creation of new jobs, based on new technical competences that will require specific training and upskilling, while the technical developments and findings will be used to contributing to the standardization of bio-based products and materials, which will guarantee an effective and wide adoption for making such products the new baseline of our lives.

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More information & hyperlinks
Web resources: https://www.ambiance-project.eu/ - Project Website
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101058406 - Cordis Project Page
Start date: 01-06-2022
End date: 31-05-2026
Total budget - Public funding: 4 571 767,00 Euro - 4 571 767,00 Euro
Twitter: @AmbianceEu
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Original description

By applying a circularity-by-design approach, the AMBIANCE project aims to develop new and advanced bio-based products, characterized by a high or total bio-based material content and taking into account the different alternatives for recirculation such as the different types of reuses, remanufacturing, recycling, biodegradation or energy recovery to enhance sustainable models. Such approach will be coupled to the optimization of the mechanical properties for particular applications, e.g. durability for outdoors urban furniture or sports and leisure products, taking into consideration the whole lifecycle.
Special attention will be paid to the optimization of product manufacturing of bio-based materials, which will require tuning of material composition and processes (extrusion, large-scale additive manufacturing, compression moulding) for different bio-based materials. Besides, the use of Digital Twin technologies will enhance the development of materials and products and the remanufacturing of such bio-based goods, and it will optimize manufacturing processes and enhance production quality of such novel applications by leveraging IoT and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
AMBIANCE's impact will be two-fold: firstly we will showcase disruptively innovative bio-based products in different sectors and manufacturing processes, while we will demonstrate applicability in daily-life products, starring green urban areas that will lead the transition to sustainability. The setting proposed by AMBIANCE will directly result in the creation of new jobs, based on new technical competences that will require specific training and upskilling, while the technical developments and findings will be used to contributing to the standardization of bio-based products and materials, which will guarantee an effective and wide adoption for making such products the new baseline of our lives.

Status

SIGNED

Call topic

HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-05

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Factories of the Future Partnership - Made in Europe Partnership

Made in Europe (MiE)
HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01
HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-05: Manufacturing technologies for bio-based materials (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA)
Demonstrator (project outcome type)
C MANUFACTURING
C13 Manufacture of textiles
C13.9 Manufacture of other textiles
C13.96 Manufacture of other technical and industrial textiles
Result items:

Artificial grass pitches in sports facilities. The operations will cover the filament extrusion, the infill pellet mixing, and the whole production process to optimise the manufacturing parameters.

C16 Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials
C16.2 Manufacture of products of wood, cork, straw and plaiting materials
C16.28 Manufacture of other products of wood and articles of cork, straw and plaiting materials
Result items:

Bio-based construction bricks and decorative panels composed solely of agricultural side streams

C31 Manufacture of furniture
C31.0 Manufacture of furniture
C31.00 Manufacture of furniture
C32 Other manufacturing
C32.9 Manufacturing n.e.c.
C32.99 Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Result items:

Manufacturing of bio-based products

Manufacturing of bio-based products

Manufacturing of bio-based products

MiE KPI section - Resources
Cooperation with other initiatives & partnerships
MiE KPI section - Impacts
Demonstrator showcasing the realisation of new resilient value chains
Demonstrator showcasing the realisation of new innovative circular value chains
Demonstrator showcasing human and technology complementarity
Demonstrator targeting the training the workforce in new technologies
MiE KPI section - Outcomes
Demonstrator showcasing an increased uptake of green manufacturing
Demonstrator showcasing the uptake of de-manufacturing, re-manufacturing and recycling technologies for more efficient manufacturing
Demonstrator showcasing virtual end-to-end life-cycle engineering and manufacturing
Demonstrator showcasing artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics tools’ uptake
Specific Objective 2: Circular products & Climate-neutral manufacturing
R&I Objective 2.3: Manufacturing with new and substitute materials
HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-05: Manufacturing technologies for bio-based materials (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA)
Horizon Europe
HORIZON.2 Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
HORIZON.2.4 Digital, Industry and Space
HORIZON.2.4.1 Manufacturing Technologies
HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01
HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-05: Manufacturing technologies for bio-based materials (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA)