Fremtidens hobbymaling: uden plastik og skadelige tilsætningsstoffer Forestil dig en hobbymaling, der ikke bare leverer topkvalitet, men som også er sund for mennesker og skånsom for planeten. Det er netop den forandring, dette projekt bringer til hobbyindustrien. Malingen er plantebaseret, plastfri og bionedbrydelig – og samtidig kendetegnet ved en høj ydeevne. Markedet for hobbyprodukter vokser globalt, og efterspørgslen på grønne alternativer er stærkere end nogensinde. Med sin unikke kombination af kvalitet og bæredygtighed placerer projektet sig som en frontløber i en branche, der står over for en nødvendig grøn omstilling.

PURfection will pursue total recyclability of the high-performance and difficult to replace plastic material polyurethane (PUR). Its excellent performance and extensive range of applications have resulted in 24 m tones of PUR being produced each year, a number that is predicted to grow by 7% the coming years. Today’s PUR recycling methods have reached their final development stage rendering 70% of all future PUR waste destined for landfilling or incineration. PURfections predecessor, RePURpose, successfully identified both key infliction points in the existing PUR value chain and developed novel recycling technology. PURfection will convert these findings to innovation by implementing closed-loop recycling for PUR production spill and deliver proof-of-concept for full recycling of EoL PUR waste streams. All developed solutions will be evaluated using techno-economic analysis and life-cycle-assessment tools and become part of proving new value chains and business models for PUR recycling. PURfection holds the potential to eliminate 7% of the total Danish CO2-eq emissions from incineration of plastic waste, while simultaneously aiding the consortium partners to expand their market shares of 5%, corresponding to double-digit m EUR in value capture. With an onset at kilogram scale, PURfection will collect, chemically deconstruct, and separate PUR waste streams into valuable chemical building blocks, that will reenter the production of new PUR products.

NKT has recently been in close collaboration with the Ion Trap Group at AU about Tm-fiber lasers for two experimental activities using trapped and laser cooled Ba+ ions. One focuses on sympathetic cooling of complex molecular ions for so-called quantum logic spectroscopy (QLS) of single biorelevant molecular ions, the other is investigates quantum many-body effects in ultracold ion-neutral interactions. In parallel, the US company, IonQ, also now focuses on Ba+ for its future commercial quantum computer. Both experiments at AU build on recent advances in ion-based quantum technology related to realization of quantum computers and simulators. Importantly to Q-BID, they share the need to cool and precisely manipulate single Ba+ ions' internal and motional quantum states using laser excitations of narrow atomic transitions. Only high-performance lasers can cool the motion of the ion or two-ion systems to the ground state, and this represents the important initialization step of both experiments. In Q-BID, NKT and DFM will make new lasers at 650nm and 2052nm for the experiments at AU and IonQ. However, these lasers represent a greater platform development for single-line lasers based on NKT’s existing Koheras platform: adapting the Er-doped fiber laser and amplifier to Tm, and pairing it with a harmonic up-conversion module. This change will allow NKT to address quantum technology experiments requiring lasers from 300-1100nm, which covers >90% of existing activities globally.