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Zerocento S.r.l.

An example of best practice regarding cascading would be Zerocento S.r.l., which is a company founded in
2017 that deals with the recovery of a by-product from the steel industry. The company has created a new
production chain where their waste material is transformed into a new raw material.

Through the control of the cooling process and chemical-mechanical processing, a new product is
obtained: a very hard aggregate, used to replace porphyry and basalt in road and railway infrastructures.
The material production plants are located in Padua and Cremona, and are designed to package an
ideal aggregate for conglomerates. The total production capacity of the plants is around 3500 tons per day,
while the annual production stands at 700,000 tons.

You can find more information about this example here.