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Fiumicino Airport is getting more sustainable and innovative with Made in Italy cutting-edge technologies

Aeroporto di Fiumicino - Foto Account Ufficiale AdR
von 16 Januar 2020 bis 30 April 2020

Promoting quality and efficiency but also protecting the environment, safety, and health of its passengers and the communities in which it operates, through an all-round technological innovation. Fiumicino Airport is, for example, the first airport in the world to experimentally use, on a stretch of the runway for intercontinental flights, a particular type of asphalt containing graphene, developed by the Iterchimica: a 100% Italian eco-sustainable technology that can offer higher performance and limit the impact on the environment thanks to the use of recycled plastic.

Thanks to its strength and durability, graphene-modified asphalt can prevent pavement deformation, increasing its safety. Furthermore, the use of specific additives allows to produce and lay asphalt layers at reduced temperatures, with consequent energy and CO2 emissions savings into the atmosphere. The objective of the test is to verify whether the asphalt will be able to withstand situations of great stress, such as those that occur in the take-off and landing phases of aircraft, thus confirming the positive results already achieved in the road sector.

And that’s not all. The Fiumicino Airport is also the first hub to have installed Biovitae bactericidal LED lamps, a 100% Italian patent that, thanks to the combination of light frequencies, kills bacteria and sanitizes environments without affecting the immune system. The experimentation has for the moment been carried out in the emergency room, but the Airport is evaluating its extension within the terminals and the passenger boarding and disembarking areas. It’s another initiative that focuses attention on passengers and represents an important step in the fight against infections, in response to the alarm launched by researchers of the Pand Hub project on the risks of spreading diseases within transport hubs throughout the world.

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