The TRINEFLEX project supports energy-intensive industries (like glass, copper, aluminium, and water) in becoming more flexible and sustainable. It does this by offering an all-in-one digital toolkit that helps manage a plant’s operations and transition to cleaner energy use.

This toolkit uses advanced data, digital twins, and smart decision systems to improve efficiency and lower emissions. It will be tested at five industrial sites, with a focus on technologies like energy efficiency, clean fuels, and carbon capture.

The FIREFLY project is an EU-funded research initiative aimed at driving the catalyst-based chemical industry towards electrification while reducing external reliance on metals and fossil fuels. The FIREFLY concept utilises electricity issued from renewable energy sources (RES) to manufacture (electro)catalysts from secondary resources, presenting a novel sustainable approach that will significantly reduce production costs. This initiative underscores a commitment to circularity, introducing more profitable routes for the chemical industry by predominantly using spent, waste, and off-specifications catalysts from various industrial applications.

The aim of the project is to demonstrate the HAlMan process for Mn and Mn alloys production in pilot scale. These metals will be further used to produce several tons of Mn-containing commercial steels and aluminum alloys. In addition, the project aims to produce manganese dioxide for battery applications and demonstrate the production of metallurgical grade alumina and commercial cements from process byproducts. The mapping and extraction of Critical Raw Materials, including Rare Earth Elements (REEs), is the other aim of HAlMan.

 METAWAVE hopes to cut energy use, reduce CO₂ emissions, and boost productivity, by replacing traditional high-temperature heating methods,. The project also explores new eco-friendly materials, smarter control systems, and the use of renewable energy through a virtual power plant.

Expected results by 2032 include saving 420 GWh of energy, avoiding over 95,000 tons of CO₂ emissions, increasing productivity by 19%, creating over new jobs, and generating more than €230 million in revenue. The project will be tested in real factories in the ceramics, asphalt, and aluminium industries.