Coordinating European R&D actions towards cleaner production processes (CLEANPROD)
RTD-NMP2-CT-2006-033150
Duration: 01.10.06-30.09.08
Project website: http://www.ecomanufacturing.eu
Coordinator: CETIM
Greenovate! Europe members involved: CETIM, I.con, Technofi, ZVO
CLEANPROD is a Coordination Action led by CETIM (France) to observe, link, coordinate and consolidate RTD activities between 8 Member States (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and UK). It deals with 3 classes of environmentally unfriendly processes of the mechanical sector, which can be improved innovatively: machining/forming, surface preparation, surface treatment. These processes impact many industrial sectors (aerospace, automotive, energy, agrofood, etc.).
Ambitions of CleanProd
The project’s ambitions are five fold:
Design 2020 European visions for the development of sustainable manufacturing processes in the three sectors;
Propose research roadmaps pinpointing R&D topics that need to be coordinated at EU level, Member State level or even regional level;
Launch a European Observatory on sustainable manufacturing that will become the permanent European knowledge repository for industrial users;
Implement a first set of R&D coordinated activities, based on priority needs identified, and involving professional associations and national environmental agencies;
Enrich the European manufacturing Technology Platform with a sustainability dimension, through a permanent working group able to deal with comparable issues in other sectors of clean/sustainable manufacturing.
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