MONOLITHOS presentation
for EIT RawMaterials HUB – RIS Hub Greece
MONOLITHOS is an independent SME, operating according to EU standards and has a twenty-year experience in the manufacturing, regenerating, and recycling of catalytic converters. The company’s Business Network is based on 1,025 Professional Automotive Workshop Clients for aftermarket products and 1,335 Suppliers of spent automotive catalysts for recycling.
While having a great percentage of the Greek market, more than 37% of its annual turnover is coming from exports (mainly to Germany).
Over the years, MONOLITHOS has expanded its product portfolio and currently manufactures over 300 different catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters (DPFs) for all vehicle makes and models. The Direct-fit catalytic converters use either ceramic honeycomb or a high flow metallic substrate and are available with 2 years or 80,000 km warranty and EU homologation. The Diesel Particulate Filters (DPFs) incorporate precious metals in order to have catalytic activity and their honeycomb is either conventional cordierite or novel Silicon Carbide (SiC). In addition, the company manufactures and regenerates catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters for heavy duty mobile applications (e.g. off-road construction machines and trucks/buses) and for marine applications (e.g. ships). Except from Catalytic Converters and Particulate Filters, the product portfolio also includes Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCRs) devices for emission reduction of Euro VI heavy duty applications (more than 500 bhp).
The company’s office is located in Athens and its premises include a production facility located near the centre of Athens (Ak. Platonos), as well as a storage facility in the city of Thessaloniki (in the north of Greece). The company’s supply network includes a cost-effective logistics system and an optimized collection network for spent catalytic converters, covering the whole Greek territory, islands included. Furthermore, for the purposes of pre-processing of the automotive spent catalytic converters, after their storing and sorting (ceramic – metallic), a de-canning facility has been acquired with the capability of treating 40.000 converters per year.
Through its R&D activities, MONOLITHOS holds a wide experience in developing catalytic materials for various applications. Focusing on the field of automotive catalysis, polymetallic copper based nano-catalysts impregnated in rare earths carriers have been developed for enhancing the Oxygen Storage Capacity of the catalyst. In addition, the company has got a European Patent for its PROMETHEUS Catalyst (https://prometheus-catalysts.eu/), which is a novel, low-cost copper-based trimetallic nano-catalyst, impregnated in rare earth carrier.
PROMETHEUS, after having passed successfully the prototyping phase was introduced in the automotive aftermarket. The strong innovative character of the company in the field of catalytic materials, has led to its participation in 8 KIC actions initiated from EIT Raw Materials, through which it has obtained funding to carry out innovative tasks towards the development and commercialisation of breakthrough technologies and products.
MONOLITHOS has been involved, or is currently participating in the below projects (sorted by start date):
BREAK-IT (GA: 17045)
Bringing Research Knowledge to Exploitation: A T‐Shape Itinerary Approach
01/2018-12/2019, 8 project partners, https://breakitproject.eu/
MONOLITHOS is responsible to provide understanding of the educational needs in its company in terms of lifelong learning. Additionally, MONOLITHOS will contribute to the development of online courses and webinars related to metal and materials substitution/regeneration/recycling and do a follow‐up of the impact of the program in the company.
BRIEFCASE (GA: 18115)
Learning the Uses of Minerals Through Non-Conventional Teaching Tools
01/2019-12/2019, 6 project partners, https://thebriefcasegame.eu/
MONOLITHOS provides expertise from previous and on-going innovative projects regarding the recycling and rare earths/PGMs recovery, contributing in including and taking into account the industrial needs inside the didactic program.
INNOCAT (GA: 18344)
Innovative CRM substitution technology for public authorities’ vehicle catalysts
01/2019-12/2020, 13 project partners – Coordinator: MONOLITHOS
MONOLITHOS leads INNOCAT project and is responsible for project management and for coordinating all partners to ensure the generation of results that will advance the successful commercialisation of the INNOCAT technology. Furthermore, MONOLITHOS tasks include the coordination of the actual process of replacing vehicle catalysts, retrieving PGMs, and assessing the savings derived from this process.
SAFEVULCA (GA: 18145)
Safer reduction of ZnO amount in rubber vulcanization process
01/2019-12/2021, 6 project partners
MONOLITHOS is co-responsible for the optimisation of the up-scaled synthesis procedure of scale-up of ZnO-NP@SiO2-NP material, to be used for the preparation of both the rubber composites for tire application and of the tire prototype in the last part of the project.
TRAINCALL (GA:18183)
Call for Training Ideas of EIT RawMaterials High-Level Professional School
01/2019-12/2021, 10 project partners
MONOLITHOS as industry partner will provide their branch insights and propose focus topics that are of relevance as well as contributing to make sure that the course meets market expectations. They can give feedback on what they, as an employer, seek from a short Course and use their regional Network and their industry insights to propose optimization of processes and Courses.
3D BRIEFCASE (GA:19010)
Learning the Uses of Minerals Through Non-Conventional Teaching Tools
01/2020-12/2021, 13 project partners, https://thebriefcasegame.eu/
MONOLITHOS provides expertise from previous and on-going innovative projects regarding the recycling and rare earths/PGMs recovery, contributing in including and taking into account the industrial needs inside the didactic program.
HYDROMETEC (GA: 19033)
Hydrometallurgy in raw materials utilization
01/2020-12/2022, 9 project partners
The role of MONOLITHOS is to contribute in the creation of educational courses by giving lectures in hydrometallurgy theory and application in industrial setting.
CEBRA (GA:19148)
Integrated Circular Economy Business model for decoupling Europe from PGM supply
01/2020-12/2022, 5 project partners – Coordinator: MONOLITHOS, https://www.cebra-eitproject.eu/
MONOLITHOS leads CEBRA and is responsible for the management of the project and to coordinate the project partners towards the successful implementation of the project tasks. In addition, MONOLITHOS will draft and implement a Go-To-Market strategy to commercialise the CEBRA catalysts, produced in line with circular economy principles as they incorporate PGMs coming only from recycled materials.
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