NEW ECONOMICAL AND ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE RAW MATERIAL COSTS OF CEMENT BASED PRODUCTS BY UTILIZING MICRO TECHNOLOGY

Project Information

MICROCON

Grant agreement ID: 17620

Start date 1 May 2005

End date 31 August 2007

Funded under

• Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 1 720 391,00

EU contribution € 891 383,00

Coordinated by

CT HEIKKINEN OY
Finland

Objective

The project aims to develop an economical and ecological cutting of the raw material costs of cementitious products by development of a waste based micro filler composite for the concrete industry and at the same time providing an economical and ecological improvements in the technical properties of cementitious products.

Raw material and production costs of cementitious products have increased and are increasing all the time. Simultaneously, as structures of tomorrow become larger and more complex, the materials of construction will be required to meet more demanding standards of performance than those in force today. High performance concrete should have properties such as high workability, dimensional stability, and strength, and long durability in service. This trend has led to the use of higher cement contents and more admixtures in cementitious products. This concerns especially Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) and dry product pre-mixes.

Microstructure of concrete and mortars has a great impact on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete. The project seeks to improve these properties through development of waste based filler composites, which can help to optimise microstructure of cementitious products and reduce the need for high cement and admixture amounts.

The optimised micro-composite is a potential commercial product for the manufacture of high performance mortars and concretes (ready mixed concretes, precast concrete products including SCC and dry pre-mix products), and has the potential of improving the competitiveness of the companies by reducing their raw material costs and of increasing their turnover either as end users or as producers of micro filler composites, or both.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › materials engineering › composites

Keywords

• Nanotechnology
• Risk Assessment

Programme(s)

• FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology)

Call for proposal

FP6-2003-SME-1
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Funding Scheme

Data not available

Coordinator

CT HEIKKINEN OY

• Address: Lyhyenrannantie 11 ; Siilinjaervi ; Finland
• EU contribution: No data

Participants (8)

BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -PRUEFUNG

Germany

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: Unter den eichen 87 ; Berlin
• Other funding: No data

ITC-CNR "ISTITUTO PER LE TECNOLOGIE DELLA COSTRUZIONE"

Italy

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: Via lombardia, 49 ; Sesto ulteriano-milan0
• Other funding: No data

JOUTSENON ELEMENTTI OY

Finland

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: Puusementintie 2 ; Joutseno
• Other funding: No data

MICROPULVA LTD OY

Finland

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: Haavistontie ; Pirkkala
• Other funding: No data

MILLAB CONSULT AS

Norway

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: Nybyggervn. 15 ; Oslo
• Other funding: No data

STU-K A.S.

Czechia

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: Salvejova 8 ; Praha 10
• Other funding: No data

TECNOCHEM ITALIANA SPA

Italy

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: Via sorte 2/4 ; Barzana
• Other funding: No data

VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS

Finland

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: Vuorimiehentie 5 ; 1000 Espoo
• Other funding: No data