XSTONE

Development of a Novel Stone Sawing Equipment to valorise Undersized and Irregular Stone Blocks for a more rationale Use of Natural Stone Quarry Resources

 Coordinatore Pedrini S.p.A. 

 Organization address address: Via delle Fusine 1
city: Carobbio degli Angeli (BG)
postcode: 24060

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Maria Ausilia
Cognome: Pedrini
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 035 4259111
Fax: +39 035 953280

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Italy [IT]
 Sito del progetto http://www.xstone-fp7.eu
 Totale costo 1˙625˙962 €
 EC contributo 1˙083˙489 €
 Programma FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
 Code Call FP7-SME-2010-1
 Funding Scheme BSG-SME
 Anno di inizio 2010
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2010-07-01   -   2012-08-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    Pedrini S.p.A.

 Organization address address: Via delle Fusine 1
city: Carobbio degli Angeli (BG)
postcode: 24060

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Maria Ausilia
Cognome: Pedrini
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 035 4259111
Fax: +39 035 953280

IT (Carobbio degli Angeli (BG)) coordinator 520˙210.70
2    NOVAMECH SRL

 Organization address address: VIA PER ORIO 18
city: BERGAMO
postcode: 24126

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Giacomo
Cognome: Pedrini
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 035 841498
Fax: +39 035 4429640

IT (BERGAMO) participant 163˙437.91
3    HERRAMIENTAS DE DIAMANTE S.A.

 Organization address address: CAMINO DE VILLANUEVA P I DE VALDELACUEVA 20
city: MECO MADRID
postcode: 28880

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: David
Cognome: Pozo
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 918 860061
Fax: +34 918 860086

ES (MECO MADRID) participant 92˙610.86
4    CORTESI GRANITI S.r.l.

 Organization address address: Via Ai Dossi 34
city: BOLGARE BERGAMO
postcode: 24060

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Oliviero
Cognome: Cortesi
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 035 4423546
Fax: +39 035 4423547

IT (BOLGARE BERGAMO) participant 83˙252.09
5    MARMORES GALRAO-EDUARDO GALRAO JORGE & FILHOS SA

 Organization address address: Avenida Liberdade 153
city: PERO-PINHEIRO
postcode: 2715 004

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Cristina
Cognome: Machado
Email: send email
Telefono: +351 219678427
Fax: +351 219 279912

PT (PERO-PINHEIRO) participant 73˙363.94
6    MARMARA LASKARIDI ANONYMI VIOMILHANIKI KAI EMPORIKI EMPORIKI ETAIRIA AE

 Organization address address: Potamia
city: THASSOS
postcode: 64004

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Sotirios
Cognome: Laskaridis
Email: send email
Telefono: +30 25930 22044
Fax: +30 25930 22039

EL (THASSOS) participant 66˙763.94
7    TUREKS TURUNC MADENCILIK IC VE DISTICARET ANONIM SIRKETI

 Organization address address: ORGANIZE SANAYI BOLGESI 105 SOKAK MERKEZ
city: AFYONKARAHISAR
postcode: 3000

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Ahmet
Cognome: Dincer
Email: send email
Telefono: +90 272 221 16 00
Fax: +90 272 221 16 03

TR (AFYONKARAHISAR) participant 62˙699.56
8    Federation de l'Industrie Marbriere er de l'industrie Granitiere de la CEE - AISBL

 Organization address address: Avenue de l'Yser 19
city: Brussels
postcode: B-1040

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Gerd
Cognome: Merke
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 611 9771211
Fax: +49 611 9771248

BE (Brussels) participant 21˙150.00
9    D'APPOLONIA SPA

 Organization address address: Via San Nazaro 19
city: GENOVA
postcode: 16145

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Sara
Cognome: Parodi
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 010 3628148
Fax: +39 010 3621078

IT (GENOVA) participant 0.00
10    INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO

 Organization address address: Avenida Rovisco Pais 1
city: LISBOA
postcode: 1049-001

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Teresa
Cognome: Malhoa
Email: send email
Telefono: +351 21 8417731
Fax: +351 21 8418619

PT (LISBOA) participant 0.00
11    NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - NTUA

 Organization address address: HEROON POLYTECHNIOU 9 ZOGRAPHOU CAMPUS
city: ATHINA
postcode: 15780

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Ioannis
Cognome: Paspaliaris
Email: send email
Telefono: +30 210 7722176
Fax: +30 210 7722168

EL (ATHINA) participant 0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'In 2007 EU countries represented about 40% of global natural stone production, bringing Europe as one of world’s largest produces and exporters of natural stone. European countries like Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain, are important players while other European countries are in positively growing. The European sector consisted of 60,000 companies and employing a total of more than 500,000 workers is strongly dominated by SMEs, being more than 90% and having less than 50 employees each. In spite of its leading role on the global market, Europe has been loosing power due to non-European aggressive trading competition. As a result, employment decreased of more than 15% in the last 6 years. At extraction only 20-25% of extracted blocks are accepted, having the requirements of a standard-sized and regular shaped block to be processed into a cost-efficient product. This quantity constitutes a major environmental impact because the discarded waste blocks (75-80%) are considered unprofitable to process with the current equipment. As a result, the situation is severely affecting European landfills and most crucially its global competition. The need of new equipment is necessary to profitably process irregular and undersized stone blocks, resulting in additional yields, higher productivity, and lower waste material produced. Within the framework of reducing waste by valorising, processing, and exploiting discarded stone blocks, the project addresses the development of a compact high-productivity sawing frame specifically designed to saw irregular and undersized blocks. The system includes a novel block holding system, with dynamically driven hydraulic cylinders, developed to control the rocks stability during the cutting operation, main issue for current machines. Furthermore, a real-time control will be developed allowing the machine to adapt to any cutting conditions thanks to on-line monitoring of cutting parameters and real-time adaptation to processing conditions.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

EU researchers have developed novel cutting equipment for sawing discarded stone blocks into marketable products such as slabs or strips. The new sawing frame has the potential to significantly reduce stone waste in European quarries.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Europe is one of the world's largest producers of natural stone. However, after extraction of the stone blocks from the quarry, most have to be discarded because they do not meet the size and shape requirements for further processing.

Reducing this waste was the goal of the http://www.xstone-fp7.eu/ (XSTONE) project, funded by the EU. The project's aim was to design a compact high-productivity frame for sawing irregular and undersized blocks.

In the traditional stone-processing cycle, the first step is to saw the blocks into slabs, which can be further cut into strips and subsequently into tiles. The natural stone sector is strongly dominated in Europe by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Through the use of 3D computer-aided design software and virtual prototyping, the XSTONE project designed the new cutting machine's components. To verify the selected materials and the mechanical design under different working conditions, the project carried out several finite element analyses.

As shown on the project website, a full-scale physical prototype of the new compact sawing frame was realised by XSTONE. It includes a set of dynamically driven block holders that firmly hold in position any irregular and undersized stone blocks during the sawing operation.

Utilising this new equipment, the project team conducted a series of processing tests with different stone blocks to validate the procedure. Now complete, the project will provide the participating SMEs with a novel solution for processing rejected stone blocks.

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