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We’re pleased to announce that Dekiln has been awarded funding through the Royce Industrial Collaboration Programme (ICP) to support the next stage of our scale-up journey.
Our project, titled SPARK (Scaling Production of Advanced Recycled Kiln-free tiles), will focus on a key technical challenge: translating our BioSintering® process from lab-based batch production to pre-pilot-scale manufacturing. This work will directly support our flagship product, Eralith®, a bio-based tile alternative made from over 95% recycled content and produced entirely without kiln firing.
Over the next six months, we’ll be working to optimise the physical properties of our tile precursor - which will be crucial in determining how well the process perfroms during continuous high-throughput manufacturing. A key barrier to industrial adoption is ensuring the precursor is compatible with automated prodcution lines.
To tackle this, we’ve partnered with the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), who will provide advanced characterisation of our tile precursor and feed back critical data that will help us refine the formulation. Dekiln will lead the experimental optimisation using a digital design-of-experiments (DOE) and data modelling approach.
Together, this collaboration will allow us to create a robust, scalable material ready for pilot-line demonstration - and ultimately, larges-scale commercial manufacture.
This project comes at a crucial time for the ceramics industry. With high energy prices, increasing pressure to decarbonise, and recent closures of UK tile manufacturing sites, there is a clear need for new technologies that offer a path to low-carbon, resilient production.
Dekiln’s approach supports that transition - offering a solution that is not only radically more sustainable, but also practical and commercially viable.
We’re grateful to the Henry Royce Institute for their support and recognition of the importance of sustainable materials innovation. We look forward to sharing updates on the SPARK project and our broader mission to create the world’s most sustainable tiles.
