Objective
The aim of this project is to replace conventional glazes on tiles and other high temperature processed materials with an innovative coating. The NovaCOAT consortium aims to develop a nanocomposite coating that is matured at much lower temperatures than the current conventional inorganic glaze coating and has the technical specifications acceptable for ceramic tile applications.
The low temperature coating technology is environmentally very sound because it decreases the use of heavy metals and allows use of new decoration technologies and pigments that cannot be combined with current high temperature glazed decoration. New decoration techniques and the resulting products will give manufacturers tools to produce truly unique products and thus increase the competitiveness of all participating SMEs.
Field of science
- /engineering and technology/materials engineering/coating and films
- /engineering and technology/materials engineering/ceramics
- /engineering and technology/materials engineering/colors
- /natural sciences/chemical sciences/inorganic chemistry/inorganic compounds
Call for proposal
FP6-2002-SME-1
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Coordinator
Stoke-on-trent
United Kingdom
Participants (9)
Newton Abbot
Saarbrcken
London
Sassuolo (Mo)
Michalovce
1026 Maastricht
Saarbrucken
Turku
Helsinki