🎤 Our coordinator Corne Rentrop recently took the stage at CETEX: Consumer Electronics Test & Development Forum in Amsterdam to talk about ECOTRON 🧠 Consumer Electronics Test & Development TNO Holst Centre
ECOTRON
Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Innovative technologies for sustainable functional & printed electronics
About us
ECOTRON is a Horizon Europe project aiming to improve the sustainability, circularity and recyclability of printed electronics (PE). ECOTRON consortium, consisting of research centers (TNO - Holst Centre, CEA, VTT and ITENE), a university (POLIMI), industry (Técnicas Reunidas, Beckton Dickinson, Signify, POLAR and Johnson & Johnson - Janssen) and an SME (AMIRES), focuses on: * Circular build-up of electronics: recycling of substrate (solvolysis, chemical recycling) metal recovery (supercritical fluid extraction, solvometallurgy), reversible interconnects (Diels-Alder, Gecko) and separation technologies (Photonic, Sacrifice layer); * Renewable and compostable electronics: biobased or compostable materials for substrates and inks; * Setting up PE recycling protocols and developing a blueprint for an industrial-scale PE recycling plant. Developed technologies will be demonstrated in 4 use-cases: * Medical application: On-body drug dosing system (Beckton Dickinson) * Consumer electronics: Light foil (Signify) * Wearable electronics: Sports/activity tracker (POLAR) * Smart packaging: Temperature sensing labels for drug packaging (Janssen - Johnson & Johnson) This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101070167.
- Industry
- Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2022
Updates
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⚡Ready to see how we’re making electronics go from trash to treasure? 🔋 🎂 Two years into ECOTRON and we're still wired for a greener future!🚀 Just celebrated second anniversary during M24 meeting in Grenoble, France. Holst Centre TNO VTT Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives ITENE Signify BD J&J Innovative Medicine Belgium Tecnicas Reunidas Politecnico di Milano Polar Electro Oy AMIRES
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⚙️ 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡 One innovative approach in the ECOTRON project involves cementation. This process deposits a less noble metal (such as copper or zinc) onto a more noble metal surface. By leveraging the electrochemical potential difference between these metals, silver can be selectively deposited onto cementing particles. 🧪 How It Works: 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: Using copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) as cementing agents. 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿: The electrochemical potential difference facilitates electron transfer. 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Silver deposits onto the surface of the cementing particles.
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🌟 Meet Polar Electro Oy, a Finnish pioneer in sports training technology and the developer of the world's first wireless heart rate monitor. ❤️⏱️ Polar is proud to be the end user for the wearable athlete tracking system in the ECOTRON project. They are utilizing printed electronics with sustainable materials to develop innovative solutions. A key milestone is the development of sustainable heart rate strap prototypes that are washable and have a long lifespan. 🏃♀️ Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Kempele, Finland, Polar has grown into a global brand with around 1,200 employees and 26 subsidiaries. 🏋️♂️ Their commitment to innovation ensures that their products help users understand themselves better, perform better, and live better, making a significant impact on future lifestyles. 🌍 Polar recognizes the impact of its decisions on people, the planet, and the climate. Sustainability is at the core of everything Polar does. Juhani Kemppainen Joni Kilpijärvi
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💫 Highlights from the IAPRI Annual Conference! 📊 Last week, ITENE hosted the IAPRI Conference in Valencia. ⚡Our own Fruela Pérez Sánchez showcased the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results for Use Case 4 of the ECOTRON project. It detailed the significant benefits of transitioning from conventional to printed electronics (GEN #1 yet). 🎊 Kudos to Fruela and the entire team for their hard work and dedication!
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🌟 Meet our ECOTRON partner: Signify!💡 🔋 Together, we aim to push the boundaries of sustainable technology and drive impactful change in the industry.⚙️ 🔌Stay tuned for updates as we collaborate to achieve our goals!🔦 💡 Peter Bancken Ronald M. Signify
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ECOTRON reposted this
Proud moment! TracXon WON the ASML YOUNG MAKERS AWARD yesterday, with the who's who of the Brainport Eindhoven region in attendance. This honor goes to the hardworking and smart TracXon Team. Clearly proves that TracXon is indeed Fabricating the Future of Electronics! A shout out to my co-founders Raghu Kishore Pendyala and Corne Rentrop as well as our mentor Paul Breddels. Grateful to our parent company TNO Holst Centre, the Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), the Brabant Start-up Fonds, Innovation Industries and Rabobank for backing us from the start. The quest and passion for #Sustainable and Ubiquitous #Electronics continues...
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🌍 Introducing Our Partner: Tecnicas Reunidas 🎉 Tecnicas Reunidas (TR) is a global leader in EPC for the Oil & Gas and Energy sectors, with a growing focus on decarbonization and the circular economy. 💡🔄 🧪 R&D Excellence TR excels in hydrometallurgy and electrochemistry for recycling plastics, biomass, and electronics. Current projects include recovering high-value metals from electric vehicle batteries and PCBs. ⚡🔋 📋 Responsibilities in ECOTRON: ❇️ Developing a novel process to recover metals from printed electronics conductive inks. ❇️ Conceptual engineering for a printed electronics recycling plant. 🛠️ Technologies Used: ❇️ Hydrometallurgy techniques for efficient metal recovery. 🏆 Key Milestones: ❇️ Proof of concept for efficient silver recovery from conductive inks. ❇️Blueprint for a future recycling plant for printed electronics. Join us in our mission to advance sustainable electronics through innovative recycling technologies! 🔌🌱 Ramon Pericet-Camara, PhD Elena Florindo Sánchez- Puerta Clemente García Antonio Jose Sanchez Rojo Ernesto Simón Camacho