Favini
Crush Agrumi addresses the challenge of valorising agro-industrial by-products by transforming residues from citrus processing into a resource for high-quality paper production. The project belongs to the fields of circular economy, upcycling, ecodesign and the circular bioeconomy. Materials that would otherwise progressively lose value along the supply chain are redirected into a new production cycle and used in a higher-value application.
In industrial juice production, only part of the citrus fruit becomes the final product. The remaining fraction generates what is commonly known as citrus pulp, from which additional components such as essential oils, pectin, bioethanol and other compounds can be extracted for different industrial applications. After these successive processing stages, a residual material known as depectinised citrus pulp remains. This material is generally directed towards relatively low-value applications, such as animal feed or biofuel production, and in some cases may ultimately require disposal.
Favini intervenes at this point in the value chain. Through an upcycling process, depectinised citrus pulp is recovered, micronised and incorporated into papermaking, transforming an agro-industrial by-product into a raw material for a higher-value product. The result is Crush Agrumi, a paper in which residues from citrus processing replace part of the conventional cellulose used in paper production.