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An exhibition featuring the landscape of Italian industry within the framework of Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation

Abet Laminati — Super-surfaces ALPI — The reinvention of wood Brembo — From 300km/h to 0 in 3.79 seconds Coex — Naturally fireproof Crea Concrete Design — Mono-material landscapes Cressi Sub — First underwater Dainese — Lifesaving design Directa Plus — Cleaning the sea with graphene Eumakers — 3D multi-color Falci — The farmers’ multinational Fizik — 3D-printed biomechanical saddles Fontana — Technological supercar trimming Foscarini — Fishing for lamps GAM — Montessori materials Gemar — U.F.O. Unpolluting Flying Objects Grivel — High Altitude Safety K-Array — New shapes of sound Kong — Inventing the carabiner Landucci — Infinite pasta shapes Limonta — Sustainable textile Magis — Enzymatic industrial management Nonino — High craftsmanship spirit Novamont — Designed to rebirth Omnicos Group — Make-up makers Pedrali — Engineered wood Petroceramics — Superpowers of materials Plastitalia — Admirable underground fittings Springa — Autonomous robotic Tecno Tessile Adler — Safety Cell Terre Davis — Ground Hero Vibram — Down side up
Created in Italy

08 — Directa Plus

Cleaning the sea with graphene

Lomazzo, Lombardia

https://www.directa-plus.com

Directa Plus is the biggest European graphene production company (in terms of production volume) and the fourth largest in the world. Its forte is that of having been the first to develop a production technology based on a completely physical process requiring no chemical agents. Its industrial production is thus fully sustainable. The company started from an intuition pursued by Giulio Cesareo, the founder partner and CEO. After studying production technology in the United States, he brought it to Italy where Directa Plus put down its roots with the idea of bringing to bear the excellence of its territory in terms of human resources. Grafysorber® is the result of the first production phase, patented by Directa Plus, during which graphite is subjected to a process called plasma superexpansion. This uses very high temperatures, of around 10,000 degrees, well beyond that of the sun’s surface.

All images courtesy of Directa Plus

Grafysorber is a device for the depollution of water contaminated by petrol and hydrocarbons. It is composed of graphene-based threedimensional nanostructures (patent Directa Plus). Grafysorber can absorb more than 90 times its own weight in pollutants. Its three-dimensional structure acts as a sponge by “capturing” hydrocarbons polluting waters or other elements including soil and air. It is produced in the Officine del Grafene in Lomazzo, where Directa Plus’s industrial production is located.

Graphene is the finest material ever created in a laboratory. Two hundred thousand times finer than a hair, its discovery in 2010 earned a Nobel for the two scientists who researched it. A material with promising characteristics, it conducts electricity better than copper, it is transparent like glass, more resistant than steel and can be moulded like plastic. Graphene opens up new prospects for quantum physics and has already enabled a wide range of practical applications (from batteries to textiles).

DIRECTA PLUS. Grafysorber®, a device for the depollution of water, composed of graphene-based threedimensional nanostructures. Photo Max Rommel

↑ DIRECTA PLUS. Grafysorber®, a device for the depollution of water, composed of graphene-based threedimensional nanostructures. Photo Max Rommel