Project description
A new outdoor fabric to fight pollution
Pollution is the cause of millions of premature deaths each year. In urban areas, it represents a major concern for city management services. Clean technologies and environment remediation technologies are a major priority for the EU. ETISILK, a Spanish company specialised in outdoor fabrics (used for patio furniture), has developed an advanced textile fabric coated with nanophotocatalysts that can offer low-cost urban pollution management. The photocatalytic technology is used to produce advanced textiles that have elegant design and air cleaning capacities. The EU-funded CLEAN-Photo-TEX project proposes a complete solution that reduces air pollutants without energy consumption and improves the city management of pollution.
Objective
Most urban areas worldwide are facing pollution as a major challenge in city management. The World Health Organization estimates that 3.8 million people die prematurely because of that. Clean technologies and environment remediation technologies are a major focus both on the EU and abroad. The European Union has budgeted over 300 billion € for the next multiannual financial period.
ETISILK, a 200-year-old family-owned textile company, has developed an innovative textile fabric coated with a nanophotocatalysts that can remediate urban pollution maintenance-free and low-cost. Treated fabrics can degrade air pollutants like NOx, organic fractions in the suspended particles (PM10 and PM2.5) and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into harmless substances.
CLEAN-Photo-TEX is a complete game-changer solution to remediate the pollution in cities and improve the quality of life of humanity. The photocatalytic technology embedded in ETISILK advanced textiles for architecture and decoration of cities merges both design elegance and sustainability by becoming air cleaners in cities without energy consumption or maintenance thanks to the solar activation.
The current construction market is booming, with particular growth in South East Asia. The estimates from the World Economic Forum are that 2 billion new homes are needed in the next 80 years to account for economic development and population growth. ETISILK addressable market for CLEAN-Photo-TEX is at least of 3 billion €/year for new buildings (at lower average of 20 sq m of fabric per new building, estimated at 25 million a year worldwide) plus the latent potential for refurbishing current buildings with panels of treated photocatalytic textiles.
During the first 5 years of commercial exploitation, we foresee accumulated sales over 46+M€ and profits of 9+M€ with increase of the workforce in ETISILK of at least 20 FTE positions, both in production site and in commercial department.
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- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry volatile organic compounds
- engineering and technology materials engineering textiles
- engineering and technology environmental engineering air pollution engineering
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
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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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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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08253 SANT SALVADOR DE GUARDIOLA
Spain
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