Luis Madariaga Lauzurica graduated as a Chemical Industrial Engineer from the Bilbao School of Telecommunication and Industrial Engineering, and has a Master’s Degree in Competitive Business Management. He has been working at Gaiker Technology Centre since 1989; his technical work has always been in the field of sustainable composites and functional polymers, a department that he now heads. The department’s strategy is focused on key aspects of R&D applied to the circularity of such materials, such as identifying and advanced sorting of waste streams, improving the quality of the recovered products and incorporating the maximum content of recycled material in new products.