The CHIMERA team participated in the Final Workshop of the LIFE SUBSED LIFE17ENV / IT / 000347 project which was held on September 15, 2022 in streaming. After the greetings of the Authorities, the LIFE project was introduced which, as in the philosophy of CHIMERA, aims to demonstrate that it is possible to convert a waste into a resource and in this specific case, the dredged marine sediment into a commercial substrate through the application of sustainable techniques, both from an environmental and an economic point of view. During the workshop, it was explained how to achieve this goal, sediment-based substrates have been used in Italian and Spanish nurseries in the nursery production of ornamental plants (laurel) and fruit trees (olive and citrus) and in the cultivation of non-food plants (protea, calla lily, laurel) and food plants (basil, blueberry, wild strawberry and citrus). During the final workshop, some sessions were also dedicated to the legal framework for sediment management and ornamental nurseries towards precision agriculture, deepening the role of technological innovation. Find out more

Discovering all the advantages of the new technology LIFE CHIMERA developed by 3P Engineering thanks to the Training Sessions and visits to the pilot plant by contacting the CHIMERA team at info@life-chimera.eu

The Pilot Plant is located currently in the Netherlands in the Noord-Brabant region at the Renders & Renders broiler poultry farm. The new CHIMERA technology has already been tested both in broiler farms and in laying hen farms: if a minimum amount of storage must be managed in broiler farms as the production of chicken manure is discontinuous, in laying hen farms, where the production of chicken manure is continuous, the management is immediate thanks to a conveyor belt that brings the poultry manure into the plant, using the manure "as it is". In both cases it is possible to see the various advantages that CHIMERA allows to obtain, favouring the independence of the farmer from treatment centers and autonomy from external sources of supply of raw materials, up to greater resilience to market fluctuations. Find out more