Italy’s Resilco secures €5M to transform industrial waste into sustainable materials
Bergamo, Italy-based RESILCO, a company specialised in transforming certain industrial waste into secondary raw materials, announced that it has secured €5M in a Series A funding round.
The funding round was led by 360 Capital through its climate tech fund, 360 LIFE II.
360 Capital is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage European innovative companies in the Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First sectors.
With over 25 years of experience, it has supported over 160 startups and is dedicated to helping talented technology entrepreneurs build disruptive companies across various sectors.
“Resilco is redefining industrial waste management with its patented technology that turns a cost into an opportunity. Resilco’s technology not only drastically reduces the disposal costs of fly ash—resulting in annual savings for utilities in the tens of millions of euros—but also generates new revenue streams and actively contributes to CO2 storage. It’s a sustainable, scalable, and highly profitable business model. We are excited to support the team in their growth and industrialisation journey,” says Alessandro Zaccaria, Partner at 360 Capital.
CDP Venture Capital also contributed through the Green Transition Fund, which is backed by the European Union’s NextGeneration EU initiative.
The round also involved the Parallel Fund LV 360, backed by Lombardia Venture, an initiative of the Lombardy Region funded with European resources from the PR FESR 21-27 and managed by Finlombarda.
Additionally, the round included Tech4Planet, the National Technology Transfer Hub for Environmental Sustainability promoted by CDP Venture Capital SGR.
This funding comes two years after raising €1.2M round in 2023, led by Tech4Planet with the participation of partner FECS Technology Srl.
The Italian company plans to use the capital to support its market growth, build its first mobile plant in 2026, and in 2027 establish the first industrial plant in Italy.
Resilco: Transition towards a more sustainable economy
Resilco was founded in 2019 by David Callejo Munoz (CEO), Paolo Brazzo (Head of R&D), Alessandro Panza (Head of Engineering), and Marta Cecilia Pigazzini (Head of Business Development).
The company aims to minimise waste disposal, reduce CO2 emissions, and preserve natural resources.
The company has developed a technology to transform certain types of industrial waste into secondary raw materials for use in the construction industry, including the production of mortars, concrete, plasters, resins, and bitumen, with CO2 storage.
Resilco has developed a technology capable of processing and recovering various types of alkaline industrial waste, such as fly ash from waste-to-energy plants, steel slag from steel production, and flue gas treatment dust from various industries.
Currently, these waste materials are primarily disposed of in landfills.
Resilco’s technology turns waste materials into useful secondary raw materials. Once they meet the End of Waste status, these materials can be sold and used in construction and production.
The technology accelerates the natural carbonation process (where a substance, in the presence of CO2, forms carbonates), immobilising hazardous elements present in the waste.
This process offers simplicity by operating at normal temperature and pressure, using CO2 as the main ingredient, and converting waste into recycled materials in under an hour for construction use.
“Reducing landfill disposal, recovering waste, and reintroducing it into the market as recycled materials with permanent CO2 storage are three global challenges we are tackling. We are thrilled about this funding round as it enables us to grow and establish our technology in the market, offering a simple yet effective solution to these pressing issues while meeting the increasing demand for sustainable and alternative industrial waste management solutions”, explains David Callejo Munoz, CEO of Resilco.
March 19, 2025 at 10:22AM
Italy’s Resilco secures €5M to transform industrial waste into sustainable materials
Vigneshwar Ravichandran