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after these years. In keeping with the Floored by Nature theme, many exhibitors are busy shaping the industry in many novel ways. In Hannover, Marco Neudecker and Maximilian Bergholz, and their


team at the Institut für Biokunststoff e und Bioverbundwerkstoff e are working on the processing and utilisation of asparagus by- products for biobased plastics. Known as “SpaPlast,” they aim to make an important contribution


to reducing nitrogen inputs into the environment. The project also includes the utilisation of asparagus husks for the market segment of wood-plastic composites which has a production volume of around 260,000 tons per year throughout Europe. A signifi cant portion of the WPC is produced in Germany for fl ooring and decking. Researchers are able to process the husks using extrusion and injection molding technology. Companies such as Vorwerk, BASF, Findeisen, Freudenberg and HEIMTEX, the Association of the German Home


Textile Industry, are among partners in a research project for the Aachen-based institutes TFI and IKV which aims to develop a completely circular textile fl oor covering. To date, old carpeting is mainly disposed of by waste incineration


for thermal recycling, whereby valuable plastics such as PA6 or PA6.6 are lost forever. Therefore, TFI and IKV are developing a method to produce textile fl oorings made from PA6, which is suitable for a cradle-to-cradle approach, by combining fi lm extrusion and pile bonding using thermobonding technology. And Tarkett’s Lino Loose-Lay xf2 demonstrates how the


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