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Academic research and industrial equipment don't usually share the same building – but when a UNESCO Professorship needs a real Test Center to validate its life-cycle research, that's exactly the kind of overlap that makes both sides more useful.
PICVISA has begun collaborating with the UNESCO Professorship in Life Cycle and Climate Change, offering its Test Center as a resource for the Professorship's research activities.
The Professorship focuses on life cycle assessment as a tool for understanding and addressing climate change – research that benefits from access to real industrial processes rather than purely theoretical models, since life cycle impacts depend heavily on how materials are actually handled in practice.
By making the Test Center available, PICVISA gives the Professorship a place to study how sorting and recovery processes affect the overall life cycle impact of different materials – connecting academic research on climate change directly to the operational realities of recycling technology.
Get in touch with our team to discover how PICVISA's optical sorting and robotics solutions can fit your recycling operation.