Project description
Digital printing for colourful textiles
The digital era in printing technology has opened amazing and new possibilities compared to traditional screen printing. However, digital printing on fabrics also has limitations as each ink–fabric interaction produces a different result due to the natural chemical and physical properties of both the ink and the fabrics. This results in costly and time-consuming adjustments of treatments in printing processes. To overcome this challenge, the EU-funded Green Drop project proposes to deploy a cutting-edge system advanced by Creazioni Digitali for textile digital printing, based on specialised inks and short pre-/post-treatment processes. Green Drop technology will allow reduction of energy consumption and ink usage.
Objective
Digital printing in an inkjet-based method has open many application areas including wide format graphics and various industrial applications such as textiles. While the digital textile printing market is growing at an annual output rate of 20%, the proportion of digital textile printing users only reached 2%. This is mainly due to the current limitations of the method. In order to print different types of textiles, varied types of inks are required since each ink is suitable for a specific fabric. Thus, the printer will adjust to the need for pre and post treatment printing process as well as printing quality ensuring ink stability on the fabric. This reflects on high production costs, lengthy process treatment and usage of several inks. Creazioni Digitali, present in the fabric printing sector since 2006 realise that we could create a state of the art system for textile digital printing using specialised inks and short pre and post treatment processes. GREENDROP is our project to launch the pioneer Digital Printing machinery system that will revolutionized the digital printing market for the Fashion, Automotive, Advertising and Home design segment sectors. GREENDROP system improves the working environment as it enables a 40% reduction on time and energy pre and post treatment, 30% reduction on ink usage and 0% water consumption in the printing process. In addition, the system can maintain the colour above the surface of the fabric, complying with the ISO standards on colour fastness. Our target market is promising: the global Digital Printing Market is forecast to reach €25 Billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 4.48% between 2017 to 2023 with the ink market segment holding the largest share. We expect at least to capture a Serviceable Obtainable Market of 200 textile and clothing companies, €7.5M market value with a ROI of 1.62 by 2026.
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- engineering and technology materials engineering colors
- engineering and technology materials engineering textiles
- social sciences economics and business business and management business models
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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22075 LURATE CACCIVIO
Italy
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