Zaragoza

Zaragoza is a province in the autonomous community of Aragon, northeastern Spain. The biorefinery will be built in the facilities of “Alfonso Maíllo” Innovation Center (CIAM, one of the most important facilities in Spain for research applied to waste management) and in the Center for Urban Waste Treatment of Zaragoza (CTRUZ), owned by the Municipality of Zaragoza and located in the Technological Park for Recycling (PTR). Both facilities are managed by CIRCULAR BIOCARBON coordinator URBASER.

The different value chains will cover diverse territories, which will reinforce the European and versatile nature of the project as a model for replication. The location of the headquarters of the industrial key players in different strategic points all over the continent also provides the opportunity to develop and activate commercial relations soon after the project ends, which will be boosted by the establishment of pre-commercial agreements with clients all over Europe. In this context, Zaragoza will act as a reference new model to support progress towards a bio-based economy.

Using the Zaragoza site as a real-scale demonstrator for specific lines of the biorefinery, CIRCULAR BIOCARBON will have an influence not only on the process but on all actors in the bio-based economy chain at the European level, including policymakers, citizens, rural areas and the industrial and primary sectors. 

The multi-location implementation will support and ensure the replicability of the CIRCULAR BIOCARBON approach by testing it against several waste management schemes, ecosystems and practices in different territories. The biorefinery will boost the replication potential for other cities according to preferred markets, contributing to the faster acquisition of key customers in each country.