PlasCarb News and Events

PlasCarb's legacy - Scientific Paper and Video published

1 February 2018

More than one year after the project's official close, the research on renewable PlasCarbon (RPC),…

Advances in Bone Tissue Engineering with Renewable PlasCarbon

10 November 2016

Renewable PlasCarbon, the graphitic nanocarbon created by the PlasCarb technology has been tested by…

Commercialising RTD project results: FP7 PlasCarb Project

17 - 18 October 2016

Gateshead, United Kingdom

As our FP7 PlasCarb project is coming to an end soon, the consortium partners…

Test Report: Application of Renewable PlasCarbon in Batteries

12 October 2016

PlasCarb researchers from the teams at Abalonyx, Norway, and CNRS, France, published a report on…

PlasCarb publication: Conductive inks of graphitic nanoparticles from a sustainable carbon feedstock

22 September 2016

WHY GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK: PLASCARB RESEARCHERS PUBLISH A STUDY TO PROVE THAT SUSTAINABLE…

PlasCarb goes to Industry - Exhibiting at the RWM2016

16 September 2016

Close to the end of the FP7 PlasCarb project in November 2016, the PlasCarb team…

PlasCarb exhibits at RWM

13 - 15 September 2016

Birmingham, United Kingdom

We are happy to announce that PlasCarb will have a presence at RWM 2016 -…

Converting food waste into highly sought after graphene and hydrogen

10 August 2016

Food is a valuable resource and yet in the UK around 15 million tonnes…

PlasCarb goes to Industry - Exhibiting at the ANM 2016

28 July 2016

PlasCarb was presented with an exhibition stand at the ANM2016 - 7th international conference on…

PlasCarb exhibits at ANM2016

25 - 27 July 2016

Aveiro, Portugal

Are you interested in finding out more about PlasCarb, its activities and results as well…

CARBON 2016 - the World Conference on Carbon

14 July 2016

Pennsylvania, United States

Our partner Ferdinand Hof from CNRS will participate at the CARBON 2016 - the World…

28th European Conference on Operational Research

4 July 2016

Poznan, Poland

We are happy to announce that PlasCarb will be presented at the 28th European Conference…

PlasCarb Consortium meeting in Oslo between 22-23 June 2016

22 - 23 June 2016

Oslo, Norway

The PlasCarb consortium has been to Oslo, Norway to hold the final year EU consortium…

PlasCarb featured in the Fraunhofer IBP annual report

20 June 2016

PlasCarb is one of the six highlight-projects 2015 at the Institute for Building Physics (IBP)…

IDTechEx Graphene and 2D Materials

27 - 28 April 2016

Berlin, Germany

We are happy to announce that PlasCarb will be presented at the IDTechEx Graphene and…

Garbage in, graphite and green hydrogen out

25 April 2016

Natural graphite, a high grade of coal, is 1 of 20 raw materials that the…

ChemOnTubes 2016

3 - 7 April 2016

Brussels, Belgium

The PlasCarb project was represented at Chemontubes 2016, the international conference on the chemistry of…

The 10th International Conference on New Diamond and Nano Carbons 2016

3 March 2016

We are happy to announce that PlasCarb will be represented at the 10th International Conference…

Food Waste Statistics in Europe: a new Report by the PlasCarb team

24 February 2016

The PlasCarb team has just published a new report on Food Waste Statistics in Europe:…

Story on PlasCarb project has been published on Horizon 2020 website - Garbage in, graphite out — plus green hydrogen

2 November 2015

PlasCarb presented at EXPO Milan 2015

30 June 2015

On 26th June 2015, the FP7 PlasCarb Project Coordinator Neville Slack was invited by the…

PlasCarb team marks the Project’s halfway

17 June 2015

On 16-17 June 2015, the PlasCarb team has met in Brussels, Belgium, to take stock…

This Tech Can Turn Food Waste Into Graphene, Power, And Fuel

17 April 2015

Graphite, a product of graphene, is a critical raw material that's 100 times stronger than…

Food waste can be more than just garbage

7 April 2015

It happens to everybody at some time: you lose track of a yoghurt hidden away…

Our first year of business!

9 March 2015

The PlasCarb project has just completed its first twelve months and would like to share…

PlasCarb in display at the “Research & Innovation for a circular economy in European Regions” Conference

29 October 2014

On 15 October 2014, the FP7 PlasCarb project was proudly presented in Brussels at “Research…

PlasCarb project presented at CarboRaman School

28 October 2014

The FP7 PlasCarb project was presented at CarboRaman, a thematic CNRS school dedicated to the…

PlasCarb at SUSCO Budapest 2014

27 October 2014

On October 2-3 2014, the FP7 PlasCarb project was presented at SUSCO Budapest 2014, an…

PlasCarb will be present at the Advances in Food Processing - Challenges for the Future congress

30 July 2014

PlasCarb project will be introduced by our project partner Fraunhofer IBP at the Advances in…

PlasCarb first consortium meeting

8 June 2014

The first consortium meeting of the PlasCarb project was organized in Bordeaux, France on…

PlasCarb project at the ChemOnTubes 2014 conference

6 April 2014

PlasCarb project was introduced at the ChemOnTubes 2014 conference in Italy. ChemOnTubes is an international…

PlasCarb project at the Life Cycle Assessment Workshop in Austria

16 February 2014

On 6th February 2014, Peter Brandstetter from the Fraunhofer IBP introduced PlasCarb at the Life…

PlasCarb project website launched

9 February 2014

The PlasCarb consortium is pleased to announce the launch of the official project website. You…

PlasCarb Project Kick-off Meeting

12 January 2014

The PlasCarb (Innovative plasma based transformation of food waste into high value graphitic carbon and…