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NEWS & EVENTS
In Media
- 8 May 2023, NPT proces technologie: WOOL2LOOP wijst de weg naar duurzamere bouwindustrie LINK
- 12 April 2023, CORDIS website: Results in brief LINK
- 9 March 2023, SRIP: Our partners from Termit and the Institute of Civil Engineering of Slovenia received a silver award for their work on the facade panels from waste mineral wool LINK
- May 2021, Slag valorisation symposium: A keynote speech presented by Barbara Horvat, LINK
- March 2021, LOOPS: An interview with Wool2Loop and Houseful, LINK
- February 2021, Mineral & Gradnja: Projekt WOOL2LOOP - uporaba odpadne mineralne volne, LINK
- December 2020, University of Oulu: Geopolymeeribetonia lattiavalussa, LINK
- September 2020, EDA: WOOL2LOOP: the Europe's first EU innovation project focused on the recovery of mineral wool waste from the construction industry, LINK
- September 2020, Gradbenik: the leading journal covering construction, architecture, building materials, equipment and construction machinery, LINK
- August 2020, Lundell Oy: Kiertotalouden mallitalo Lohjan asuntomessuille 2021, geopolymeeribetonilattiavalu. LINK: https://www.pyörre-talo.fi/mikaonpyorre
- June 2020, Mineral & Gradnja: Projekt Wool2Loop, LINK
- April 2020, Saint Gobain - verkkojulkaisu, LINK
- 9 December 2019, Uusiouutiset: Mineraalivillalle arvoketjuja: LINK
- 1 October 2019, Betoni-lehti: Ekologisten betoniteknologiainnovaatioiden kehittäminen arktisilla alueilla: LINK
- 5 June 2019, MTV: Anne Kaiser, Saint-Gobain Finland Oy, and Eelis Rytkönen, NCC Property Development, talking about circular economy (in Finnish): LINK
- 8 May 2019, Press Release:
Timegate: Circular economy innovation project utilizing mineral wool waste from building and demolition received significant EU funding, LINK, STT: Rakennusteollisuuden mineraalivillajätettä hyödyntävä kiertotalouden innovaatiohanke sai merkittävän EU-rahoituksen, LINK
- 31 January 2019, YLE: Mirja Illikainen, University of Oulu - an interview on circular economy (in Finnish): LINK
EVENTS
WOOL2LOOP Final Conference, 26th October 2022, Lisbon, Portugal & online
7th International Slag Valorisation Symposium, 27-29 April, online.
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CoMS 20/21 Construction Materials, 20-21 April 2021, online.
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Beyond 2020: World Sustainable Built Environment Conference, 2-4 November 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden. The event went virtual.
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Waste Build 365: From Waste to Resource, 19 November 2020, webinar. Video recording can be found HERE. Presentations by Vilma Ducman, Majda Pavlin, Rawia Dabbebi, Rajeswari Ramaswamy, Zhenming Li, Irving Flores.
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Kiertotaloutta rakentamassa, 9 September 2020, webinar. A presentation by Anne Kaiser.
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EuroScience Open Forum, 5 September 2020, webinar. A presentation by Rajeswari Ramaswamy on: "Mineral wool waste back to loop with advanced sorting, pre-treatment and alkali activation (Wool2loop)" and by Vilma Ducman on: "Transforming Construction Waste into Energy Efficient Solutions"
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RILEM 40th Cement and Concrete Science Conference, 4 September 2020, webinar. A presentation by Majda Pavlin on: "Early strength improvement of waste wool based alkali activated material".
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Webinar: Introduction to EU funding, 14 April 2020. H2020 funding - research group perspective by Mirja Illikainen, University of Oulu and Saint-Gobain & H2020 - Wool2loop from coordinator's perspective by Anne Kaiser, Saint-Gobain.
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RILEM Spring Convention 2020, 10-14 March 2020, Guimarães, Portugal. Conference presentation by Majda Pavlin: "Optimization of alkali-activated mineral wool mixture for panel production" (authors of the paper: Majda Pavlin, Ana Frankovič, Barbara Horvat and Vilma Ducman.
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SMASCO19: 1st International conference on smart materials for sustainable construction, 10-12 December 2019, Luleå, Sweden. Conference paper: "Dissolution studies of glass wool and stone wool at alkaline pH" by Rajeswari Ramaswamy, University of Oulu.
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Decembrski XR Meetup, 11 October 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Digital workshop speech by Rok Capuder from Zavod404.
European Days for Sustainable Circular Economy, 30 September - 1 October 2019, Helsinki, Finland
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15th International Congress on the Chemistry of Cement, 16-20 September 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
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The 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Building Materials, ICSBM 2019, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 12.-15 August 2019
Keynote speech: Prof. Mirja Illikainen, University of Oulu, on "Utilization of waste and residues in building materials"
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XVI ECerS Conference, in Torino, Italy, 16-20 June 2019.
Speech: Vilma Ducman, ZAG, on "Geopolymers and AAM: standards and regulation "
World Circular Economy Forum 2019, side session, in Helsinki, Finland, 5 June 2019.
Speech: Juho Yliniemi, Oulu University, on "Mineraalivillajätteiden hyödyntäminen ekobetonin raaka-aineena"
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Sustainable Built Environment conference (SBE), in Helsinki, Finland, 22-24 May 2019
Speech: Juho Yliniemi, Oulu University, on "Mineral wool waste-based geopolymers"
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Rakennusjätteistä kohti kierrätysmateriaaleja, in Kuopio, Finland, 28 March 2019
Speeches: Anne Kaiser, Saint-Gobain Finland Oy, on "Uusiomateriaalien hyödyntäminen rakentamisessa - esteet ja mahdollisuudet", "Kierrätys ja kiertotalous rakennusmateriaalien toimittajan näkökulmasta"
and Juho Yliniemi, Oulu University, on "Mineraalivillajätteestä geopolymeerejä - korvaako betonin?"
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