Nanotechnology, robotics, tire pyrolysis: projects worth millions of dollars are being launched in Greece in several areas. Companies planning to implement these are therefore seeking to secure strategic investment status through the Greek Enterprise Authority for their projects that follow the circular economy and utilize new technologies.
One of them concerns the development of a robotics technology plant and research and development department. The 91 million euro project will be implemented in Karteri, Igoumenitsa, by Atlas Robotics, whose managing director and co-founder is entrepreneur Greg Nojan. In the first phase, the company plans to focus on the area of ​​robotic diagnostic imaging, but there appears to be growing interest in adopting the technology by large medical groups.
Another project concerns the establishment of the first factory in Greece for the pyrolysis of tires at the end of their life cycle. This is his 44.5 million euro investment by the German company Pyrum Innovations, which uses pyrolysis technology, a technique that thermally melts the chemical bonds in carbon without oxygen, to reduce the life cycle of used tires. (end of) is recycled. Pyram, which owns the German chemical industry BASF and the tire manufacturer Continental, and works with major companies such as Michelin and Pirelli, is a leader in recycling tires and turning them into secondary raw materials that are highly useful to industry.
Processing equipment is also being installed to produce innovative products from plankton, which in liquid form is used as food for small fish. The factory planned by Plankton First (a local subsidiary of Swiss company Nano Algae Solutions) will include two sections. In Scarfeia, Futiotida, the first processing takes place with the production of biomass, and in the industrial zone of Lamia, nutritious products such as oils, proteins and polysaccharides (double concentrate) are produced.
A further investment of 15 million euros, for which an application will be submitted to Enterprise Greece, will include the construction of a research and development center and a carbon fiber production unit based on nanotechnology.
