Advanced photocatalytic textiles to remediate urban air pollution

Descripción del proyecto

Un nuevo tejido de exterior para combatir la contaminación

La contaminación es la causa de millones de muertes prematuras cada año. En zonas urbanas, supone una gran preocupación para los servicios de gestión de las ciudades. Las tecnologías limpias y de reparación medioambiental son una de las principales prioridades de la Unión Europea. ETISILK, una empresa española especializada en tejidos de exterior (utilizados en mobiliario de jardín), ha desarrollado un tejido avanzado recubierto con nanocatalizadores que puede ofrecer una gestión barata de la contaminación urbana. Se utiliza la tecnología fotocatalítica para producir tejidos avanzados de diseño elegante y con capacidades de depuración del aire. El proyecto CLEAN-Photo-TEX, financiado con fondos europeos, propone una solución completa que reduce los contaminantes del aire sin que se produzca consumo alguno de energía y mejora la gestión de la contaminación por parte de las ciudades.

Objetivo

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.

Ámbito científico

Programa(s)

Tema(s)

EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020

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Convocatoria de subcontratación

H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1

Régimen de financiación

SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1

Coordinador

ETISILK SA

Aportación neta de la UEn

€ 50 000,00

Dirección

CTRA DE MANRESA A IGUALADA KM 3 POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL SALELLES
08253 SANT SALVADOR DE GUARDIOLA
España

Pyme

Sí

Región

Este Cataluña Barcelona

Tipo de actividad

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Enlaces

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Participación en los programas de I+D de la UE

Red de colaboración de HORIZON

Coste total

€ 71 429,00