Unused wool becomes fertilizer
In collaboration with the Wool Office in Endre, RISE has now tested and developed technology to produce pellets for fertilizer from leftover wool. Several challenges have been overcome and the wool pellets are now on the market. Initial tests show that the pellets have, among other things, a good moisture-retaining effect.
About the project
- Project name: ”Wool pellets from unused wool on Gotland – a development project focusing on the pelleting process”
- Project owner: RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
- Purpose: to develop and adapt the technology for pellet production to work with Swedish wool as raw material - and thereby enable the poorer quality wool that is currently an unused waste product to be converted into a renewable and locally produced fertilizer and soil improvement product.
- CASE : to develop a method and technology for pelletizing wool.
- Contact information for the project owner: www.ri.se