Objective The stone industry is of strategic importance for the EU economy, particularly its Southern member states including Italy, Greece and Portugal. A large proportion of the 60 million tons world production can be attributed to the EU countries, representing an estimated market of 20 billions of Euro, and of this 81 % is produced in the Southern European countries. Although the prospects for the sector future development appear to be promising, there is a number of problems, which have to be addressed in order for the sector to remain competitive and maintain its leading position in the global market. These problems are particularly relevant when considering stone processing and particularly granite slab production, being faced by low productivity, huge quantities of waste material, high energy consumption and environmental management of wastes produced. There is therefore a need for a new concept of granite slabbing machine with high energy saving per square meter, a low environmental impact, high versatility in work programming, high productivity, high quality surface finishing, as well as reduction in foot print. The solution to this need represents a huge opportunity for the SME participants and more in general for the competitiveness of the overall stone filiere, employing some 500,000 people in 60,000 companies, whose majority has less than 50 people. In this framework, the main objective of the project is to address a number of scientific barriers for the development of an innovative stone slabbing machine which is based on a set of diamond wires operated vertically and not horizontally, thus reducing energy consumption and overall machine foot-print, while enabling the processing of both regular and irregular sized blocks. The system do not use grits as for the current gang-saws and therefore the processing waste is fully recyclable. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator TESIMAG SRL EU contribution € 527 323,60 Address Via Murlungo 4/a 54033 Carrara Italy See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Nara Maggiani (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all MASTER TRE SRL Italy EU contribution € 141 258,00 Address VIALE GALILEO GALILEI 2 37010 CAVAION VERONESE See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Erio Fidanzi (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data MC DIAM sp.z o.o. Poland EU contribution € 142 693,30 Address AL LOTNIKOW 12 02 668 Warzawa See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Cedric Gendaj (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STEINMETZ-UND STEINBILDHAUERMEISTERKOHLHOFF UND RAATZ GMBH Germany EU contribution € 167 572,70 Address Friedenstrasse 61 65189 Wiesbaden See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Benjamin Raatz (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TEVAN SRL Italy EU contribution € 7 120,00 Address VIALE TURIGLIANO 9 54033 CARRARA See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Claudia Vannucci (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data NTRAM GENERAL S.A. Spain EU contribution € 7 140,00 Address CALLE VICTOR PRADERA 45 08940 Cornella De Llobregat Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Eva Romagosa Vives De La Cortada (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CENTRO DI RICERCHE EUROPEO DI TECNOLOGIE DESIGN E MATERIALI Italy EU contribution € 10 000,00 Address STRADA STATALE 7 APPIA KM 706+030 SNC 72100 Cittadella Della Ricerca Brindisi See on map Region Sud Puglia Brindisi Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Stefano De Riccardis (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data MARMORES DO POCO BRAVO LDA Participation ended Portugal EU contribution No data Address Avenida 25 de Abril 18 7150109 BORBA See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jose Carlos Bismarck (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data
