Spire public consultation now live

This new association represents more than 50 industrial and research process industry stakeholders from over a dozen countries spread throughout Europe. A.SPIRE was established at a signing ceremony in Brussels on 18 July 2012, through the joint efforts of 8 industry sectors:

• chemical

• steel

• engineering

• minerals

• non-ferrous metals

• cement

• ceramics

• water

The mission of A.SPIRE is to ensure the development of enabling technologies and best practices along all the stages of large scale existing value chain productions that will contribute to a resource efficient process industry. Through purposeful cooperation across all sectors and regions, A.SPIRE has developed a multi-year, strategic and dynamic roadmap that will address research, development and innovation activities as well as policy matters towards the realisation of its 2030 targets. The ultimate goal is to promote the deployment of innovative technologies and solutions required to reach long term sustainability for Europe and its process industries in terms of global competitiveness, ecology and employment.

SPIRE has launched a public consultation on the strategic multi-annual research & innovation roadmap for the SPIRE Public-Private Partnership (PPP).

This consultation is a unique opportunity for all interested parties to have their say in this cross-sectorial research and innovation roadmap which provides the pathway for Europe to decouple resource consumption from human well-being and achieve increased competitiveness in the European process industry.

The consultation process will run until 1 October 2012.