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BIOMULCH SIGNED

Integrated solution for innovative biodegradation control of agricultural plastic mulches.

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EC-Contrib. €

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BIOMULCH project word cloud

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Project "BIOMULCH" data sheet

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Coordinator	ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL CALZADOY DEL PLASTICO DE LA REGION DE MURCIA Organization address address: AVENIDA EUROPA 4 5 POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL LAS SALINAS city: ALHAMA DE MURCIA postcode: 30840 website: www.ctcalzado.org contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Spain [ES]
Project website	https://biomulch.eu/
Total cost	1˙976˙993 €
EC max contribution	1˙613˙667 € (82%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.3. (PRIORITY 'Societal challenges) 2. H2020-EU.2. (PRIORITY 'Industrial leadership')
Code Call	H2020-FTIPilot-2016-1
Funding Scheme	IA
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-12-01 to 2019-05-31

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL CALZADOY DEL PLASTICO DE LA REGION DE MURCIA ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL CALZADOY DEL PLASTICO DE LA REGION DE MURCIA Organization address address: AVENIDA EUROPA 4 5 POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL LAS SALINAS city: ALHAMA DE MURCIA postcode: 30840 website: www.ctcalzado.org contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (ALHAMA DE MURCIA)	coordinator	514˙125.00
2	MORERA & VALLEJO INDUSTRIAL SL MORERA & VALLEJO INDUSTRIAL SL Organization address address: AVDA KANSAS CITY, S/N, CRUCE CON SE-30 (CORTIJO MB city: SEVILLA postcode: 41018 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (SEVILLA)	participant	335˙562.00
3	ASOCIACION PARA EL DESARROLLO DEL SISTEMA PRODUCTIVO VINCULADO A LA AGRICULTURA ONUBENSE ASOCIACION PARA EL DESARROLLO DEL SISTEMA PRODUCTIVO VINCULADO A LA AGRICULTURA ONUBENSE Organization address address: CALLE DEHESA DEL PIORNO 1 city: HUELVA postcode: 21440 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (HUELVA)	participant	276˙281.00
4	THATCHTEC BV THATCHTEC BV Organization address address: AGRO BUSINESS PARK 10 city: WAGENINGEN postcode: 6708PW website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (WAGENINGEN)	participant	263˙112.00
5	FKUR KUNSTSTOFF GMBH FKUR KUNSTSTOFF GMBH Organization address address: Siemensring 79 city: WILLICH postcode: 47877 website: www.fkur.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (WILLICH)	participant	224˙586.00

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Project objective

Nowadays, mulching is an essential technique used in agriculture to satisfy the worldwide growing demand for agricultural products. It consists of covering the soil surface in order to modify climate conditions and favouring the crops. Conventional mulch is made of polyethylene plastic with important limitations: the plastic has to be removed after the harvest (time consuming, expensive & 10-20% remaining at soil) and it is difficult to be recycled due to its high contamination by ground, stones or waste, being the most part (45.2%) placed in landfills. Therefore, plastic mulches cause serious problems of environmental and economic concerns. Other developed mulch alternatives are not sufficient: oxodegradable (based on polyethylene, are a risk of accumulation in environment) and biodegradable (do not guarantee total degradation under uncontrolled conditions and they are three times more expensive). There is a market demand to find alternatives. Our innovative product, BIOMULCH, will be a biobased mulch with controlled biodegradation (independent from temperature, humidity and soil conditions) and being cost competitive (€1,100/ha respect to €3,000/ha of polyethylene, €2,078/ha of oxodegradable and €2,150/ha of biodegradable), covering the current agriculture market needs. BIOMULCH will be commercialised as a kit and will guarantee the farmers the complete mulch film biodegradation when is exactly required by them. The mulch film will be fully degraded in a 30-40 days period with our innovative mulching technique. As a result, it is expected an important growth for consortium companies, obtaining a total turnover above €354M in 2018-2022. Also it is expected an important benefit for UE, above 759M euros by 2022, derived from savings for farmers and waste savings. BIOMULCH counts already with letters of support of prestigious companies which are very interested in its business model.

Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Final prototype for BIOMULCH	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2020-04-08 11:45:14
Project micro-website and Social Media accounts	Websites, patent fillings, videos etc.	2020-04-08 11:45:14

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