Advanced photocatalytic textiles to remediate urban air pollution

Project Information

CLEAN-Photo-TEX

Grant agreement ID: 875907

DOI

10.3030/875907

Project closed

EC signature date 29 July 2019

Start date 1 August 2019

End date 31 January 2020

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Total cost

€ 71 429,00

EU contribution

€ 50 000,00

Coordinated by

ETISILK SA
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CLEAN-Photo-TEX (Advanced photocatalytic textiles to remediate urban air pollution)

Reporting period: 2019-08-01 to 2020-01-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

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 goal of CLEAN-Photo-TEX is to conduct a feasibility study to assess the viability and the needs for the next stage.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

ETISILK has conducted several activities for the technical analysis of the CLEAN-Photo-TEX technology with several stakeholders during the implementation of the SME instrument Phase 1 in order to assess the viability of the technology including supplier searches for the finishing product and small-scale proof of concepts to gather performance data and pricing estimates.
A key activity has been the SWOT analysis to assessed the different strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
The market study conducted within the CLEAN-Photo-TEX project started with an exhaustive search of the potential B2B and B2C costumers for the Cleantech emerging market and through the potential suppliers and distributors for accessing the nano-catalyst.
For the development of the commercialization plan and the business model, ETISILK has identified several channels for customer acquisition of the CLEAN-Photo-TEX technology.
ETISILK has made an in depth freedom to operate assessment or photocatalytic textile products.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

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. CLEAN-Photo-TEX will contribute int he mitigation of urban pollution through passive system.

CLEAN-Photo-TEX results are an important step for demonstrating the potential for the market testing with customers. Also, it has reinforced ETISILK value chain relationship.
During the first 5 years of commercial exploitation, we foresee a significant turnover increase along with employment creation within ETISILK, both in production site and in commercial department.

CLEAN-Photo-TEX concept