RIGENER-AM: Turning Industrial Waste into High-Performance Materials for Additive Manufacturing

décembre 2025

An innovative initiative focused on regenerating metallic and textile waste into advanced materials for Additive Manufacturing, with the goal of enabling circular production models, reducing environmental impact, and unlocking new high-value industrial applications.

RIGENER-AM sets out to transform industrial waste into a strategic resource for manufacturing. By regenerating discarded metallic and textile materials, the project develops new high-performance materials tailored for Additive Manufacturing, aiming for enhanced technical properties, improved sustainability, and greater efficiency across production chains. Backed by a dedicated funding program from the Lombardy Region, the 26-month roadmap spans from material research and processing to prototype development and performance validation, with the goal of bringing regenerated materials into real-world industrial use.

Main goals of the project:

Create new metal alloys and polymer compounds from metallic and textile waste
Develop innovative, high-value-added materials with a low environmental footprint
Integrate computational design strategies to optimize production
Validate solutions through functional and structural testing for industrial applications
Expand the applicability of results to other sectors such as furniture, construction, and sports

Caracol’s role: from material validation to advanced applications

Caracol plays a central role in RIGENER-AM, leading the technological validation and application phases for polymer compounds from textile waste. Using its large-format Additive Manufacturing technologies, it is involved in the full experimentation workflow, from compound validation to the production of prototypes for real-condition functional and structural testing in Design applications. By integrating computational design strategies, it optimizes production, reduces material waste, enhances part performance, and turns RIGENER-AM’s research into scalable, industry-ready solutions. Loghi partnership rigener am