Meet the RESURGENCE partner: Strane Innovation
What is your role in the project?
During the first part of the project, Strane Innovation is responsible for creating a methodology to calculate circularity indicators for water resources used by industrial sites. Strane’s role takes the following form: organising data about the use of renewable resources to establish circularity indicators, analysing them to recommend improvements and tracking their progress to the set objectives.
During the second part of the project, Strane Innovation will be responsible for proposing industrial synergies and circularity hubs around the Navigator, Celsa and Organik Kimya industrial sites.
How does your expertise contribute to its mission?
Strane has developed technical expertise in circularity through the creation of Newasys, its subsidiary dedicated to water sobriety. Since 2020, the Newasys consultancy has supported around twenty industrial firms of all kinds (paper industry, steel industry, cosmetics, etc.) in reducing their water consumption through audits and technico-economic feasibility studies. Newasys is specialised in the circular use of water resources, promoting to its customers the use of unconventional resources such as rainwater reuse, treated wastewater from WWTPs, collective use through industrial synergies, etc.
What do you see as the project’s main benefits, and where do you think it will have the biggest impact?
During the various discussions with the project partners, it emerged that there was a greater need to collect more data on internal processes, but also on the environment of industrial sites. In this sense, one of the main benefits of the RESURGENCE project is to be able to interrogate industrial processes through LCA studies or circularity studies in order to provide new questions and new data on the management of key resources. The development and testing of sensors and tools for optimising water management in Work Package 3 is in line with this ‘Measure, Understand, Act’ approach, to identify process improvements and take long-term operational or strategic investment decisions.
If you had to describe the RESURGENCE project in one word, what would it be?
Easy one, but a good representation of the project: Circularity!
