Harsco Open Innovation Blog

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Harsco3D

Are you a scientist or a technology entrepreneur?  Harsco partners with material recycling and clean technology companies to help industry address environmental challenges, through improved energy efficiency or resource recovery from waste materials.

Working in partnership with industry, universities and technological institutes, we are using open innovation to find best available technologies to meet these challenges.

We call it 3D Innovation:

Discover industrial environmental challenges & resource recovery opportunities

Develop solutions using best available technologies

Deploy solutions across multiple industries and geographies.

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New Global Innovation Network

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Harsco3D

As part of its discovery process with customers, Harsco organizes Discovery Roundtables where insights on future industry trends are shared. In parallel, Harsco’s new Global Innovation Network is a problem-broadcasting portal open to the public for any technology entrepreneur, inventor or scientist to submit detailed technical solutions. The GIN is an open innovation network seeking new technologies which address environmental challenges for industry, by improved energy efficiency or resource recovery.

Do you have a technology which may interest Harsco? Visit the Harsco GIN for details: https://www.harsco-gin.com/

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Harsco’s target technologies

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Harsco3D

As part of its technology scouting activity, Harsco has presented its target technologies to the Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3), a network of industrial companies which conducts research into materials or technologies promoting recycling of industrial wastes. Harsco joined CR3 in 2011, and as a new member was invited to give a presentation on its perspective on resource recovery opportunities for industry. Download the presentation.

As well as Harsco, members of CR3 include Veolia Environment, ArcelorMittal and Alcoa. Topics for research are selected on the basis of common interest areas among the group. The member Universities have world-class reputations in the field of scientific research into resource recovery, and contribute graduate students to the research programs.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester (MA), USA

Colorado School of Mines, Golden (CO), USA

Katholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

The group meets every quarter. The next meeting is on 3rd of October 2012, hosted by Leuven University.

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Collaborative innovation in Beijing

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Harsco3D

On 14th Dec 2010, Harsco Metals met with the University of Science and Technology Beijing to review the findings of the 6-month long research programme into possible applications for steel mill by-products from 8 participating steel mills in China.

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Agrowsil Earns Independent Endorsement in University Trials

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Harsco3D

Independent confirmation of the agricultural benefits of Harsco Minerals’ Agrowsil fertilizer continues to grow, the latest being a 3-year study conducted on field-grown winter wheat by Rutgers University in the United States. 

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