NOVELLINI is a leading company specialized producer and assembler of shower enclosures, manufacturer of shower trays, built-in bathtubs and hydromassage tubs, shower cubicles and equipped panels.

NOVELLINI is an end-user of several raw materials like 100% virgin glass fibers, billets from aluminium scraps and ingots; extrusion, coating and chromium plating of shower enclosure trims.

FiberEUse consortium supported also the sanitary furniture industry in the transition to a circular economy model for composites. Indeed, thanks to the know-how provided by the Research institutions partners, for the first time NOVELLINI started to exploit the fibreglass scraps of its product lines as secondary raw material to make new shower trays in GFRP.

In Democase 1.1, NOVELLINI reached the target to reduce 40% the quantity of virgin glass fiber for the production of one of the best sellers shower tray and for bathtubs with the same performance of the final products and tested a different matrix resin to reduce toxic emissions (like Polyurethane and Epoxy without styrene emission).

The final demonstrators consist of relevant prototypes that have been validated passing tests according to UNI EN 14527 (shower trays) and UNI EN 14516 (bathtubs).In order to introduce this new process in the current production line will be necessary to study and realize a new production line able to manage the recycled granules. For a follow-up, to industrialize the entire process, we will need further experimental tests in order to optimize the process and the mix of granules, virgin Glass Fiber and resin.