SMILES

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• SMILES
• SUSTAINABLE MEASURES FOR INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY
  EXPANSION STRATEGIES SMART LAUNDRY-2015

RTD partner
dr.sc. Tanja Pušic
tpusic_at_ttf.hr
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Service for Textile European Projects     Faculty
of Textile Technology, University of
ZagrebServis Tekstilnih Europskih
Projekata    Tekstilno-tehnološki fakultet
Sveucilišta u Zagrebu
U organizaciji EURATEX-a izraden je novi sustav
izmjene podataka vezanih za prijave FP7 projekata
unutar tekstilnog podrucja TEPPIES (Textile
Project Proposal Information Exchange System)
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International Technical Committee for Textile
Care

• To promote research
• To exchange research results and experiences
• To develop methods of test on an international
  basis
• To represent the scientific and technical
  interests of member
• countries with other international organizations
• To promote the implementation of research results
• In the case of ICTC, to provide an independent
  technical input to
• CINET, the International Drycleaning Trade
  Association

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• EU Program FP7-SME-2007-2
• Theme title CAPACITIES, RESEARCH FOR SME
  ASSOCIATIONSContract Grant agreement no. 217809
• Project title SUSTAINABLE MEASURES FOR
  INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY EXPANSION STRATEGIES SMART
  LAUNDRY-2015
• Acronym SMILES
• Duration 3 years

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• Contract agreements
• EC finances 75, 25 by project participants
• Total budget EUR 3.106.000
• Total EC Subsidy 110 of RTD effort EUR
  2.376.000
• Project coordinator Federatie van de Belgische
  Textielverzorging vzw (FBT) has
• submitted the project proposal. It is targeted
  for SME Associations in the Theme FP7-SME-2007-2.
  

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• The EU-27 industrial laundry sector
• 11.000 establishments (more than 90 SMEs),
  washes 2,7 billion kg of soiled textiles per year
  (wet weight) employing 168.000 workers and
  utilizing 42 million m3 of wash water and 60 PJ
  of energy per year. It generates similar
  quantities of waste water, to be treated, and
  substantial CO2emissions (3,8 million tons
  CO2/year). The annual turnover of the sector is
  5,1 billion euro, which could be doubled if all
  disposable textile articles were replaced by
• environmentally friendly reusable items. Focused
  and coordinated research to develop and improve
  innovative technologies can greatly enhance the
  performance of the industrial EU laundry sector.
  The conventional laundry processes are
  characterized by
• large enthalpy destructions and resource
  inefficiencies.

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1.SME-AG 1 (Coordinator) Federatie van de
Belgische Textielverzorging vzw (FBT) FBT has
submitted the project proposal. It is targeted
for SME Associations in the Theme FP7-SME-2007-2.
Belgian Federation of Textile Care (FBT) 400 SME
members 5 internationals 35 associates
Budget of 0,6-0,7 million euro per year. Sector
projectsClean Production Initiative,
Environmental Care Systems, Energy Savings
and Water Use Reduction. Numerous trainings
and workshops (20 in 2007). FBT produces the
journal TEXTIELVERZORGING (Textile care).
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• PROJECT OVERVIEW
• Objective improve efficiency and sustainability
  of industrial laundries
• 16 key technologies will be investigated,
  improved and disseminated
• Design of SMART Laundry 2015
• Activities organized in 6 Work Packages
• Project Steering Committee (PSC) for strategic
  decisions
• PSC1 vote per SME Association / individual SME
• Project Management Team day-to-day decisions
• Knowledge ownership by 5 SME Associations and 2
  individual SMEs
• RTDs 100 financed and regularly paid after PMT
  approval of progress
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• The Consortium of the project consists of
• 14 project participants from 7 EU Members States
  (Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany,
  Poland,
• Slovenia and Croatia) 5 European AGs (Industrial
  Associations) including their
• members, 2 individual SMEs (small and medium
  enterprises) and 7 RTDs (research
• performers) - Table 1.

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Table 1. Participants EU project SMILES
Participant type Participant name Country
1.SME-AG 1(Coordinator) FBT Belgium
2. SME-AG 2 URBH France
3. SME-AG 3 SPP Poland
4. SME-AG 4 CCS-MT Slovenia
5. SME-AG 5 CCE-ITD Croatia
6. RTD 1 Hogeschool Gent Belgium
7. RTD 2 Schieke BVBA Belgium
8. RTD 3 CTTN-IREN France
9. RTD 4 wfk-CTRI Germany
10. RTD 5 ITEK UM Slovenia
11. RTD 6 TTF-UZ Croatia
12. RTD 7 PROMIKRON 3 Netherlands
13. SME 1 Stomerij Zeekant Netherlands
14. SME 2 Kreussler Co Germany
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• SME-AG 2 URBH
• Union des Responsables de Blanchisseries
  Hospitalières

• Status a french association
• (law of 1901 on the association founding)
• Association of the Hospital laundry managers
• Bundles 270 members from the main Hospital
  laundries in France

• organizes national workshops every year on 3 days
  on upcoming laundry issues
• organizes Regional workshops with the same
  objectives (1 or 2 per year)
• publishes one paper named ECHO with technical
  news and hospital laundry experiences and
  practices
• maintain a website with technical information to
  their members as a database of technical
  documents and study reports. Cooperation with a
  french association (AFAQ) for quality assurance
  (laundry certification)

www.urbh.net
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SME-AG 3 SPJUP Stowarzyszenie Promocji Jakosci
Uslug Pralniczych

• -Association for Promotion of Quality Laundry
  Services. It encompasses most of the Polish
  laundries. They have more than 50 members, all of
  them are SMEs. They have
• extensive experience in
• conducting sector wide projects such as
  Technology
• innovation, Energy cost savings and New
  energy methods etc.
• SPJUP has recently produced more than 20 reports
  on technical and non-technical laundry issues.
  They
• have executed training activities, seminars and
  workshops. SPJUP is in the process of initiating
  a Polish quality control system for laundries.

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• SME-AG 4 CCS-MT
• Slovenian Chamber of Craft
• Section of Maintenance of Textiles

• bundles 230 Slovenian SME textile cleaners of
  which 120 industrial launderers and 75 launderers
  with dry cleaning.
• CCS-MT organises workshops, trainings and
  conferences at least twice a year.
• CCS-MT has published 4 reports/newsletters last
  year. In each bulletin its members were informed
  on current issues, enterprise issues, legal
  issues etc.

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SME-AG 5CCE-ITD
CROATIAN CHAMBER OF ECONOMY
Industry and Technology department

• Provides a wide variety of services
• Business information of their members
• Business education
• Professional entrepreneurship
• Quality improvement
• Human resources

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RTD 1 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT - BELGIUM Faculty
of Applied Engineering Sciences Department
Textile Lab TO2C

• Textile Finishing
• Conventional technologies
• New technologies
• Coating/laminating
• Digital Technologies
• Irradiation (UV, plasma, laser)

Textile Production Weaving, spinning Knitting
Ecology Water pollution Prevention Purification Re
cycling/resuse
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RTD 7 SCHICON bvba

• is an energy research organization dealing with
  sustainable energy use and savings with 25 years
  of experience
• Cleaning with liquid CO2
• CO2 separation from fluegas
• Open heatstorage system
• Large windfarms

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RTD 8 CTTN Institut de Recherche sur lEntretien
et le Nettoyage
www.cttn-iren.fr
CTTN was created in 1958 by a several
representants of the Textile Care Industry (Dry
cleaning and laundry) CTTN investigates energy
savings in laundries, controls perfomances of new
processes (cleaning and bactériological) and
established recommendations for adjustments or
new implementations, analyses new processes and
investigates water rejects.
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RTD 4 wfk-Forschungsinstitut für
Reinigungstechnologie e.V.wfk-Cleaning
Technology Research Institute
www.wfk.de

• a non profit, member based association which was
  established in 1949 and currently has 65 staff
  and researchers. They carry out research in the
  field of cleaning, reprocessing and hygiene of
  textile and non textile materials (e.g. clean
  room textiles, personal protective clothing,
  medical textiles, medical facilities, medical
  instruments, clean rooms, food industry,
  industrial parts). WFK is also directing national
  and international
• standardisation. WFK has an extensive education
  and training department carrying out seminars,
  workshops and conferences for commercial EU
  industrial laundries.

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RTD 5 University of Maribor, Institute for
Engineering Materials and Design (ITEK-UM)
CENTRE OF TEXTILE CARE (CNTO)
In collaboration with Slovenian laundries, the
Centre has conducted a detailed control
examination of the current conditions for
wastewater, in regard to statutory regulations.
CNTO was established in 1999 and is an
institution where systematic in- depth research
is carried out based on textile care.
The Centre co-operates with laboratories where
fundamental and applicative research is carried
out in collaboration with textile industry, dry
cleaners, laundries, the producers of cleaning
and washing agents and machines, etc.
The Centre is also recognized by the
'Forschungsinstitut Hohenstein', Germany, a
respected Institute in the textile care field,
for introducing textile care quality parameters
and issuing quality certificates in Slovenian
industrial laundries according to RAL-GZ 992/1.
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RTD 6 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile
Technology (TTF-UZ)

• education
• research in the field of textile care
• Centar za razvoj i transfer tekstilnih i odjevnih
  tehnologija i modni dizajn
• Collaboration with CCE and CCTC in the textile
  care sector

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RTD 7 PROMIKRON

• Applied research and technology development
  company
• Location Delft, NL
• Past EU projects - LCO2 textile cleaning EU
  CRAFT Program
• - LCO2 textile dyeing EU LIFE Program- LCO2
  cleaning demonstration - EU LIFE Program-
  Emulsion pertraction EU LIFE Program- Ammonia
  removal EU CRAFT Program
• -Biomass gasification EU CRAFT Program
• Task in project scientific integration

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SME-1 Stomerij Zeekant

• Stomerij Zeekant VOF is a combined industrial
  laundry and dry cleaning company. It is a member
  of Textielverwenners, a Cooperative Association
• with 6 regional textile cleaners, covering the
  entire country. Zeekant has 50 employees and is
  specialised in consumer clothing, care
  institutions and Corporate
• Identity Clothing Handling for large companies
  for textile cleaning and finishing. The company
  cleans with water (laundering and wet-cleaning)
  and chlorine-free hydrocarbons. The interest of
  Zeekant in the proposed project is the further
  development of
• advanced energy savings and new resource
  technologies.

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SME-2 KREUSSLER
Markets
Dry-cleaning
Industrial laundry
OPL
White label- production
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• PROJECT OBJECTIVES
• To develop and design SMART Laundry-2015 (lower
  water and energy usage and CO2 emissions)
• To communicate and disseminate project findings
  to sector users
• To implement the project results through
  training and demonstration projects
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• 16 KEY
  TECHNOLOGIES
• 1. Water reduction
• 2. Water reuse / membranes
• 3. Water disinfection
• 4. Supercritical gasification
• 5. Low Temperature Washing with adequate hygiene
• 6. Direct gas heated laundries (steamless
  industrial laundry)
• 7. Textile drying techniques (AD-ID-UD-MD)
• 8. Combined Heat Power
• 9. Lowered CO2 emissions
• 10. Energy buffers
• 11. Chemicals reduction
• 12. Cleavable detergents and additives
• 13. Electrochemical bleaching
• 14. Ultrasonic cleaning
• 15. Textile hygiene
• 16. Synthesis for SMART LAUNDRY-2015

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• RTD -for the 16 key technologies
• 6 Work Packages (WPs)
• WP1 Water reduction
• WP2 Energy savings and CO2 emissions reduction
• WP3 Chemicals reduction
• WP4 Quality improvement
• WP5 Integration/ and dissemination of project
  results
• WP6 Project management

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• Project SMILES will investigate, further develop
  and implement 16 new sustainable technologies for
  water and energy savings and CO2 reduction of EU
  industrial laundries.The evaluators of the
  European Commission (EC) for this project stated
  that project SMILES (amongst other things) a)
  has a very high relevance for the objectives of
  the European Community b) is excellent by its
  good and clear focus on scientific and
  technological issues c) is well balanced in
  expertise

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• PROJECT OUTCOME
• Maximum possible reduction annual WATER
  consumptions 10,4 million m3 (30 water
  savings)
• Maximum possible reduction annual ENERGY
  consumptions 27,5 PJ (45 energy savings)
• Maximum possible reduction annual CO2 EMISSIONS
  2,3 million tons CO2(60 CO2
  reduction)

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• PROJECT TIME PLANNING
• Updated state-of-the-art document after 1 month
• Specified end-dates for deliverables
• Specified dates for milestones
• Specified tasks for each quarter during project
• Frequent and regular reporting
• Mid-Term Assessment
• Follow-up plan at end of project
• PROJECT EXPLOITATION
• Knowledge ownership by SMEs
• Exploitation plan during project
• Knowledge protection possible
• Knowledge can be sold or used internally
• Contact with early adopters in sector
• Introduction in adjacent sector

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• PROJECT RESOURCES
• Pilot units at RTDs
• Full scale facilities with SMEs and SME-AG
  Members
• Access to test facilities from equipment
  manufacturers
• Laboratory facilities at RTDs
• PROJECT COMMUNICATION
• Website
• Education material
• Training material
• Articles
• Presentations
• Site visits
• Knowledge protection and valorisation

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• MANAGEMENT
• Project coordinator FBT is interface with EC
• Project Steering Committee with all project
  participants only SME-AGs and SMEs voting rights
  for strategic decisions
• Project Management Team day-to-day issues
• Monthly internal reporting
• Nine months EC reporting
• Intermediate results to all project participants
• Partial internal confidentiality possible
• Advisory Council and Research Council for
  advising
• Monitoring of progress by PMT

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• REPORTING AND FINANCES
• Approved project starting date September 1, 2008
• Starting date to be confirmed in pending EC
  Contract documents
• Costs encumbrances from starting date Costs made
  before starting date are not eligible
• RTDs are paid 75 during project and 25 after EC
  Final payment
• RTDs send regular invoices for costs of previous
  period on basis of time sheets, salaries and
  other costs
• RTDs send monthly proof of scientific progress
• Accountant Statement required for some projects
  participants above certain subsidy limits as
  prescribed in EC Contract documents
• SMEs and SME-AGs with members report in-kind
  effort progress regularly

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Kick-off Meeting of the SMILES Consortium at
the head office of project coordinator FBT in
Brussels (BE)