Objective The use of renewable resources becomes more and more important; new biomaterials for non-food uses offer diversified opportunities for farmers in whole Europe. One of these biomaterials is sheeps wool existing in the most EU countries in low and high qualities. The share of high-quality wool used for textiles is less than 60% only. That means about 40% is inferior wool with low quality which is not processed or thrown away. PROWOOL will close this gap and create new technical solutions and regional concepts for farmers in Europe to enable them to produce industrial higher added value wool products.PROWOOL is targeted on two objectives:-To develop and implement a totally new modular concept for processing of inferior wool in small units applicable for sheep farmers; the new process will save water and energy.- To develop and implement environmentally friendly insulation material from wool in new shapes (hanks) with lower prices to achieve a better competitiveness. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextilesengineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterials Programme(s) FP5-LIFE QUALITY - Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal SME1999/1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator WOOL-ENGINEERING GMBH EU contribution No data Address Untere Röde 13 DERMBACH Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BEVINGTON LIMITED Ireland EU contribution No data Address 11, Knocklyon Drive, Templeogue DUBLIN See on map Total cost No data
