the life programme

The programme, in agreement with the previously LIFE-funded innovations performed on the production cycle, intends to complete the sustainability cycle of the whole ceramic manufacturing processes, solving the increasing problem of waste production due to tiles cutting and calibration. It will set up an innovative dry-cutting system, using a methodology based on the brittle fracture mechanics, bi-oriented by means of ultrasounds, to achieve the multiple sectioning of ceramic plates and natural stones, thus eliminating the production of large amounts of sludge deriving from wet-cutting, saving water and energy, and decreasing drastically the special waste production due to tiles calibration.
The project is conforming with the provisions of the directives: Water Framework (2000/60/EC), Urban Waste Water Treatment (91/271/EEC), Landfill of Waste (1999/31/EC), hazardous waste (91/689/EEC), Sewage Sludge (86/278/EEC) and with the Council Resolution of 7 December 1998 on energy efficiency in the E.C.