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Recycled bricks primed for production in Scotland after £1m funding boost
Jessica Rawnsley
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The K-Briqs are soon set to go into commercial production | Credit: Kenoteq
Kenoteq claims its K-Briqs, made from recycled construction and demolition waste, generate a fraction of the CO2 of regular bricks
Bricks made from recycled construction and demolition waste are set to go into commercial production in Scotland, after clean tech company Kenoteq secured £1m in funding to help scale-up manufacturing.
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Two Million Revolutionary Bricks Go into Annual Production Following Funding Award
From KenoteqMay 13 2021
Kenoteq, a clean-tech spin-out from Heriot-Watt University, has been awarded £1 million in funding by Zero Waste Scotland to commercialise production of its revolutionary brick made of recycled construction waste, the K-Briq, to more than two million bricks per year.
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The unique, multi award-winning K-Briq™ is made from over 90% recycled demolition and construction waste materials. It produces a tenth of the CO
2 emissions of a traditional fired brick and requires less than a tenth of the energy in its manufacture.
The Circular Economy Investment Fund, administered by Zero Waste Scotland with funding from the European Regional Development Fund and the Scottish Government, offers investment for SMEs based in Scotland and supports innovative work that will deliver circular economy growth.
The K-Briq is based on the work of Professor Gabriela Medero of Heriot-Watt University A spin-out company from Edinburgh is ramping up production of its eco-friendly bricks to more than two million per year after securing £1 million of funding from Zero Waste Scotland. Kenoteq, which is also preparing to announce details of its first round of seed funding, expects to begin commercial sales of its K-Briq next year following scale-up of its production line at Hamilton Waste & Recycling in Musselburgh. K-Briq is the first in a series of circular economy products the company plans to bring to market in the next few years.