Rotate Project News
Rotate meeting: The second part was as good as the first one
The second day of our global meeting had everything we wished for innovation, communication, research, a workshop by the amazing Gate2Growth team (Marius-Febi Matei and Nikolaj Lervad Sørensen), and a visit to one of our pilot sites: Canteras Industriales (with [...]
Consortium meeting: a year in Rotate
It is not very common to have the chance to get our whole consortium in one room. More than 50 persons form 21 partners: universities, pilot sites, mining, and technology firms… from Finland to Portugal. A truly great opportunity to [...]
Rotate: Global Aggregates Information Network
César Luaces, Rotate’s Project Coordinator, has recently presented our project at one of the most prestigious forums in the mining sector: Global Aggregates Information Network (GAIN) world meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand. More than 40 delegees from more than 40 [...]
Challenges and Opportunities in Rare Earth Supply: Insights
We are pleased to share with you the key points discussed in the recent talk on raw materials at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas y Energía https://www.linkedin.com/company/etsimeupm/, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, on June 20, 2023. Organized by the [...]
Field sampling at Hormisoria
Last week, the CTM team composed of members of its Geological and Mining Technology Unit: Antonio Espín de Gea, Gonzalo Frías García, and Francisca Carreño Fructuoso, visited the pilot exploitation of Hormisoria, one of the pilot sites involved in the [...]
Webinar: The green present and future of mining
The EU Green Week is here and what better way to celebrate than by explaining the new advances towards a more sustainable future in the extractive industry? Innovation, technology, biodiversity, energy efficiency... How can EU-funded projects help to achieve a [...]
UPM and Chalmers University visit Canteras Industriales
Canteras Industriales Quarry, one of the pilots of the Rotate project located in Granada (Spain), welcomes other European project partners in less than a week. In this case, it was the turn of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), who traveled with [...]
Rotate: energy efficiency
This past week, Isabel Amez and Angeliki Karapiperi, engineers from the Laboratorio Oficial Jose María de Madariaga (LOM), the reference center in the fields of mining, explosive atmospheres, explosives, and pyrotechnics in Spain, visited Canteras Industriales. This extraction site, located [...]
Water management for a sustainable and efficient mining site
Hormisoria, the Spanish pilot site of the Rotate Project, was visited by ANEFA together with the UPM team. The El Tomillar gravel pit is located between the administrative concessions of Canredondo de la Sierra and Dombellas, both belonging to the [...]
Rotate: circular and ecological raw materials at Hannover Messe
On the 18th of April, during the EU Research & Innovation for sustainable and efficient raw materials value chains, six raw materials projects managed by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) presented their successful results at Hannover Messe, [...]