Nano-particle products from new mineral resources in Europe: EU FP7 Project “ProMine”, 2010 TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Product Industry

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ProMine is the acronym for an EU FP7 four year long research project entitled “Nano-particle products from new mineral resources in Europe” which started in May 2009. The ProMine consortium led by Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) includes 27 partners from 11 EU member states. The philosophy behind ProMine is to stimulate the extractive industry to deliver new products to the manufacturing industries. In particular, the project aims to develop five new, high value mineral-based nano products, two of which can be directly related to the forest industries. Firstly there is the generation of nano particles for coating paper for inkjet printing and secondly, precipitation of metals onto cellulose fibre templates.