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ECOTEX - Demonstration of polyester of footwear waste recycling into new textile products using glycolysis technology (LIFE)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,
Background
Polyester is the second largest family of plastics in terms of quantity used. In the EU in 2009, half of the 1.75 Mt of polyester textiles produced were used in clothing. Due to their properties, polyester-based textiles predominate in the footwear sector, where they have been introduced in many parts of the shoe (collar, tongue, insole, lining ...
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Footwear Carbon Footprint (LIFE CO2SHOE)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2017,
Background
In recent years, there has been growing awareness and concern about environmental issues, particularly those related to climate change. More and more industrial and economic sectors are monitoring the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions they are releasing into the atmosphere â notably carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N ...
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Functional textiles and leathers by innovative MLSE process (LIFE TEXTILEATHER)
Date du début: 2 juin 2014, Date de fin: 31 mai 2017,
Background
The textile and leather sectors are water-intensive. According to the Best Available Techniques reference document (BREF) for the textile industry, in mills finishing cotton woven fabrics, waste water flows can range from 50 to 200 litres/kg, depending on the efficiency of the equipment at the textile facility. The main environmental concern is ...
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RECOVERY OF TANNERY WASTES FOR FUNCTIONAL MICROENCAPSULATED PRODUCTS (LIFE MICROTAN)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2016,
Background
The tanning industry treats animal skins to produce durable leather products. It generates large volumes of by-products and waste materials, which can cause significant negative environmental impacts. The advancement of European policy and legislation protecting the environment has encouraged the exploration of ways to transform tannery waste m ...
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Promotion of best available techniques in the European footwear and tanning sectors (LIFE SHOEBAT)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,
Background
In recent years, growing awareness of the unsustainable use of natural resources, together with a greater environmental awareness generally, has led many companies to initiate efforts to improve their environmental performance and develop more sustainable production processes.
The tanning and footwear production sectors play an important role ...
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AN OPEN LINKED DATA PLATFORM FOR SEMANTICALLY-INTERCONNECTING ONLINE, SOCIAL MEDIA LEVERAGING THE CORPORATE BRAND AND MARKET SECTOR REPUTATION ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE OPTIMIZATION SERVICES (Linked2Media)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2014,
The vision of the proposed Linked2Media project is to tap into the vast user-generated content and interpret information posted on blogs, social networks and social media in Europe and beyond, ensuring that the European Commercial and Industrial SMEs will have homogenized access to the globally available online, social media information and data resources needed to perform, on their own, corporate ...
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Emerging communities for collective innovation: ICT Operational tool and supporting methodologies for SME Associations (collective)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,
The pace of technological change is accelerating. Radical discontinuities seem to happen more frequently. This means that the useful lifespan of knowledge and capability is becoming shorter and that the obsolescence of knowledge/capability is increasingly the norm in innovation. For incremental innovation, specialisation is a winning strategy, but radical innovation requires an interdisciplinary a ...
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Demonstration of wastewater treatment in Tunisian tanneries (EAUCUIR)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2005, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2007,
Background
The leather sector is one of the most important economic sectors in Tunisia. The EU is the main export market . However, the industrial processes involved in leather production use high quantities of water and chemicals. Waste water containing high levels of organic matter and chemical residues have a very negative impact on the environment.
I ...
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Tannery Wastewater Recycling in Leather Industries (TARELI)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2001, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2003,
Background
The leather industry converts raw hide into a resistant material via a process that consumes great quantities of water and chemical reagents, consequently producing a large amount of effluent. Nowadays, chrome tanning is the most prevalent technique used because the leather produced has good physical and chemical properties and the price is rea ...
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