SMILES
SUSTAINABLE MEASURES FOR INDUSTRIAL
LAUNDRY EXPANSION STRATEGIES:
SMART LAUNDRY-2015
RTD partner:
dr.sc. Tanja Pušić
tpusic@ttf.hr
Service for Textile European Projects
Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb
Servis Tekstilnih Europskih Projekata
Tekstilno-tehnološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
U organizaciji EURATEX-a izrađen je novi sustav
izmjene podataka vezanih za prijave FP7 projekata
unutar tekstilnog područja – TEPPIES (Textile
Project Proposal Information Exchange System)
International Technical Committee for Textile Care
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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
•EU Program: FP7-SME-2007-2
•Theme title: CAPACITIES, RESEARCH FOR SME
ASSOCIATIONS
Contract: 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.
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.
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 projects:
‘Clean 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).
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
• PSC:1 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.
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
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
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.
• 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.
SME-AG 5:CCE-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
RTD 1: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT - BELGIUM
Faculty of Applied Engineering Sciences
Department Textile Lab TO2C
Textile Finishing
Textile Production
• Conventional technologies
• New technologies
Coating/laminating
Digital Technologies
Weaving, spinning
Knitting
Irradiation (UV, plasma, laser)
Ecology
Water pollution
Prevention
Purification
Recycling/resuse
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
RTD 8:
CTTN
Institut de Recherche sur l’Entretien 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.
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.
RTD 5: University of Maribor, Institute for
Engineering Materials and Design (ITEK-UM)
CENTRE OF TEXTILE CARE (CNTO)
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.
In collaboration with Slovenian
laundries, the Centre has conducted
a detailed control examination of the
current conditions for wastewater,
in regard to statutory regulations.
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.
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
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
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 chlorinefree hydrocarbons. The interest of Zeekant in the
proposed project is the further development of
advanced energy savings and new resource technologies.
SME-2: KREUSSLER
Markets
Dry-cleaning
OPL
Industrial
laundry
White labelproduction
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
• RTD -for the 16 key technologies
• 6 Work Packages (WPs):
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WP1 Water reduction
WP2 Energy savings and CO2 emissions reduction
WP3 Chemicals reduction
WP4 Quality improvement
WP5 Integration/ and dissemination of project
results
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WP6 Project management
• 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
• 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)
PROJECT TIME PLANNING
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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
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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
PROJECT RESOURCES
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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
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
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
Kick-off Meeting of the SMILES Consortium at the
head office of project coordinator FBT in Brussels (BE)