Progetto: LIFE10 ENV/IT/000364

1
Progetto LIFE10 ENV/IT/000364
ECOFATTINGEnvironmentally friendly natural
products instead of cloroparaffines in the
fatting phase of the tanning cycle Start
01/01/2012 End 31/12/2013 13/06/2013 18 month
meeting Elda Alicante (Spain) INESCOP premises
2
AGENDA

• 0930 INESCOP Welcome and opening of the
  meeting
• 0935 All Actions carried out by each partner
  and scheduled activities from January 2013 until
  the end of May 2013.
• 1030 All Open discussion on actions carried
  out
• 1100 All Coffee break

3
AGENDA

• 1115 All ECOFATTING Technical future issues
• ICCOMCNR Technical activities scheduled in the
  next six months of the project (project end)
• All Open discussion on actions to be carried
  out in the next six months of the project
  (project end)
• 1200 ICCOMCNR Management and dissemination
  issues
• 1240 All General questions
• 1250 End of progress meeting
• 1300 Tour of INESCOP premises

4
Actions carried out by each partner

ACTIONS
13 material for workshops
14 diffusion material preparation
15 Italian training
16 Spanish training
17 Italy workshop
18 Spain workshop
19 fairs
20 digital supports
21 international dissemination
22 After-LIFE Communication Plan
23 Project management
24 Monitoring
25 audit
1 fat agents
2 environmental impact
3 natural products
4 laboratory level
5 semi-industrial level
6 pre-industrial level
7 environmental demonstration
8 environmental benefits
9 quality assessment
10 tecnico-economic viability
11 manual
5
Actions carried out by each partner
ACTIONS

6
Technical Actions carried out by each partner in
the last six months

• ACTION 3 Natural products demonstration and
  evaluation
• ACTION 4 Environmental demonstration of natural
  products at laboratory level
• ACTION 5 Fatting at a semi-industrial level by
  using natural products
• ACTION 6 Environmental demonstration of natural
  products fatting at a pre-industrial level

7
Technical Actions carried out by each partner in
the last six months

• ACTION 7 Environmental demonstration of hides
  fatted with natural products
• ACTION 8 Study of the demonstration about the
  environmental benefits from the natural products
  fatting process
• ACTION 9 Quality assessment of leather products
  production

8
Technical Actions carried out by each partner

• Presentations of
• ICCOMCNR
• COLORTEX
• ENEA
• SERICHIM
• INESCOP

9
Technical Actions carried out by each partner

• All Open discussion on actions carried out

10
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 13 Material preparation for workshop
• ACTION 14 Diffusion material preparation
• ACTION 15 Training course for Italian tanneries
• ACTION 16 Training course for Spanish tanneries
• ACTION 19 International fairs and other events
• ACTION 20 Digital supports for international
  diffusion
• ACTION 21 International diffusion and
  dissemination

11
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 13 Material preparation for workshop
• Logo definition and design
• ICCOMCNR produced 1 banner in Italian and 1
  banner in English
• ICCOMCNR produced 400 eco bags as project gadget
• ICCOMCNR produced 1 roll up
• ICCOMCNR produced an official ECOFATTING power
  point presentation in English to be used in
  events
• ICCOMCNR produced 200 brochures in Italian and
  200 brochures in English
• Inescop dissemination materials (poster,
  presentation, etc.)

12
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 14 Diffusion material preparation
• ICCOMCNR produced 12 ECOFATTING Notice boards
• ICCOMCNR produced 200 brochures in Italian and
  200 brochures in English
• ICCOMCNR carried out two TV interviews with local
  TV agencies
• Press contacts and articles related to ENEA event
  for the 20th Anniversary of the LIFE Programme,
  Faenza, June 21st, 2012 three press releases
  have been made by ENEA, two of which published
  into the ENEA official web site (sections
  Eventi and News) and one disseminated through
  mayor local newspapers.

13
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 14 Diffusion material preparation
• ICCOMCNR was responsible of the edition of 1
  article edited by a Pisa local newspaper
• From January to August 2012, INESCOP presented
  the project through the newsletters that are
  distributed in electronic and paper form to
  INESCOPs member companies (mainly tanneries and
  footwear and leather goods manufacturers)
• INESCOP activities

14
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 15 Training course for Italian tanneries
• COLORTEX organised a training course specifically
  aimed at tanning companies on May 31st

15
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 16 Training course for Spanish tanneries
• A training course specifically aimed at tanning
  companies will be held at INESCOP premises on
  June 20th

16
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 19 International fairs and other events
• ECOFATTING power point and video presentations at
  the Italian Celebration Day for the 20th
  Anniversary of the LIFE Programme, Brescia, May
  25th, 2012
• ECOFATTING power point presentation at XXII
  Settimana della Cultura Scientifica a
  Tecnologica in Faenza, Aprile 18th, 2012
• ENEA, in networking with ECOFATTING LIFE10
  ENV/IT/365, presented a poster in the 3rd
  International Conference on Industrial and
  Hazardous Waste Management which was hold in
  Chania (Crete, GR) on September 12-14th, 2012.

17
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 19 International fairs and other events
• ICCOM-CNR presented ECOFATTING in three national
  meetings
• - XXI National Meeting of Italian Society of
  Pure and Applied Biophysics (SIBPA), 17-20
  September 2012
• XXIII National Meeting of Analytical Chemistry,
  Italian Chemical Society, La Biodola (Elba),
  16-20 September 2012 the description of part of
  the results of Action 1 were presented in a
  published abstract and in a poster. Possible
  participation at Uruguay event
• Po.Te.Co. (Polo tecnologico conciario) in
  Castelfranco di sotto (PI), 10/12/2012

18
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 19 International fairs and other events
• INESCOP presented the project in different
  national and international fairs listed below
• - 21st Edition of ECOFIRA 2012, International
  Fair of Environmental Solutions. Valencia
  (Spain), 29th February 2nd March 2012.
• - 12th Edition of Green Week, Brussels (Belgium),
  22nd 25th May 2012
• - Conference in Green Week Satellite events
  Regional responses to the EU2020 on water.
  Lessons learned through European projects,
  FCVRE, Brussels (Belgium), 22nd May 2012.
• - 1st Water, Waste and Energy Management,
  Salamanca (Spain), 23rd 25th May 2012

19
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 19 International fairs and other events
• - Industrial Technologies Congress, 2012, Aarhus
  (Denmark), 19th 21st June 2012
• - 18th Congress of the Latin American Federation
  of Leather Chemists and Technologists, Montevideo
  (Uruguay), 9th - 11th October 2012.
• - 28th Edition of the International Footwear
  Fair, FUTURMODA, Alicante, (Spain), 30th 31st
  October 2012
• - 29th Edition of the International Footwear
  Fair, FUTURMODA, Alicante (Spain), 17th 18th
  April de 2013.
• - 62nd Congress of the Spanish Leather Chemists
  Association AQEIC Lorca Murcia (Spain), 10th
  11th May 2013
• - LIFE Networking Event, Valencia (Spain), 14th
  May 2013

20
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 20 Digital supports for international
  diffusions
• ENEA is the project responsible for the selection
  of external service video expert for the
  collection and mixing of each associated
  beneficiary activities video and production of
  the global ECOFATTING video.
• In this project period ENEA started all the
  internal procedures for the external service
  video expert selection.

21
Dissemination activities

• ACTION 21 International diffusion and
  dissemination
• ECOFATTING website in Italian, English and
  Spanish www.pi.iccom.cnr.it/ecofatting/it
• ICCOMCNR produced 1 roll up
• ICCOMCNR produced an official ECOFATTING power
  point presentation in English to be used in
  events
• ICCOMCNR and ENEA articles
• ICCOMCNR carried out two TV interviews with local
  TV agencies
• Cluster with OXATAN, SHOELAW, PODEBA, SOREME,
  BioNaD, CLEANSED, After-Cu, MICROTAN, C02SHOE,
  SHOEBAT and BIOREM (LIFE 09-10-11-12 projects)

22
Dissemination activities

23
Management activities

• ACTION 23 Project management
• ACTION 24 Monitoring
• ICCOMCNR has continuous contact with all project
  partners for monitoring project activities
• ICCOMCNR prepares and sends a monthly summary
  (each 28th) of the project activities carried out
  to monitoring representant
• ICCOMCNR needs to receive from each partner
  technical inputs before each 28th

24
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• ACTION 6 Environmental demonstration of natural
  products fatting at a pre-industrial level
• ACTION 7 Environmental demonstration of hides
  fatted with natural products
• ACTION 8 Study of the demonstration about the
  environmental benefits from the natural products
  fatting process
• ACTION 9 Quality assessment of leather products
  production
• ACTION 10 Demonstration of technical-economic
  viability
• ACTION 11 Natural products fatting manual
• ACTION 12 Leather sample books of hides fatted
  with natural products

25
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• ACTION 6 Environmental demonstration of natural
  products fatting at a pre-industrial level
• Description
• The leather produced in previous Actions will be
  tanned with the natural products technique in the
  fatting phase by means of collaborating with
  Italian and Spanish tanneries that will be
  selected from those interested. ICCOMCNR will
  conduct a product assessment of the leather
  samples produced with the new method and will
  finalize the environmental product
  characterization of the leather produced with the
  treated leather.

26
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• Methods employed
• COLORTEX, SERICHIM and INESCOP will be involved
  in
• Industrial-scale production of sheep/goat
  leather treated with innovative natural products
  formulations in the fatting phase.
• Product characterization.
• Industrial-scale production of bovine leather
  treated with innovative natural products
  formulations in the fatting phase..
• Product characterization.
• ICCOMCNR and ENEA will be involved in
• Environmental assessment of the new fatting
  process in tanning cycle using internationally
  accepted standards.

27
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• Expected results
• sheep/goat skins leathers tanned with the use of
  natural products in the fatting phase.
• bovine skins leathers tanned with the use of
  natural products in the fatting phase.
• analysis of the environmental impact from the
  hide tanning process by using natural products
  instead of cloroparaffines in the fatting phase

28
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• ACTION 7 Environmental demonstration of hides
  fatted with natural products
• Description
• The hides produced by the Italian and Spanish
  tanneries will be used by Italian and Spanish
  leather manufacturer companies, chosen from those
  interested, to manufacture different leather
  products. Immediately afterwards, a comparison
  will be made between the natural products fatted
  hides and cloroparaffines fatted hides, taking
  into account the voluntary limits imposed by the
  European Eco-label for ecological criteria
  (Decision 2002/231/CE) and other chemical
  parameters of environmental interest (pH, etc.).
  To achieve this, validations of harmful
  substances that could be present in hides will be
  carried out. The validation results will be
  written in a report.

29
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• Methods employed
• ICCOMCNR, INESCOP and ENEA will be involved in
• Production of different types of leather
  products
• Validations of harmful substances in hides based
  on international standards.
• Expected results
• 100 leather products elaborated with natural
  products fatted leathers.
• Production of more environmentally friendly
  leather products, that complies with the European
  Eco-label criteria

30
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• ACTION 8 Study of the demonstration about the
  environmental benefits from the natural products
  fatting process
• All the information gathered from earlier
  actions, as well as results and conclusions, will
  be logged in a study. To achieve this, INESCOP
  will send reports to ICCOMCNR in which the
  results will be contained from the production
  validations carried out in the Spanish companies,
  as well as the results of the comparison between
  leather products manufactured from natural
  products fatted hides and cloroparaffines fatted
  hides. This study will contain photos of the
  leather products manufactured, and will contain
  samples of natural products tanned hides at a
  semi-industrial and pre-industrial level.

31
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• ACTION 9 Quality assessment of leather products
  production
• A check will be made to verify that hides fatted
  with natural products satisfy leather products
  quality standards. To achieve this, physical
  validations (tensile strength, resistance to
  wear, contraction temperature, etc.) will be
  carried out on hides produced to manufacture
  leather products in Italy and in Spain. These
  validations will be carried out in COLORTEX,
  SERICHIM and INESCOP laboratories, which are
  equipped to carry out these types of assessments.
  The results will be logged in a report.

32
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• ACTION 10 Demonstration of technical-economic
  viability
• This Action will foresee a deep analysis in
  order to prove that hides tanned with the new
  natural products method comply with quality
  standards and are economically viable.

33
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• ACTION 11 Natural products fatting manual
• This Action will foresee the production of a
  formative manual which explains how to apply the
  new natural products fatting technique to the
  industrial process in tanneries.

34
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• ACTION 12 Leather sample books of hides fatted
  with natural products
• This Action will foresee the production of hide
  sample books tanned with the new natural products
  fatting technique, which can be shown at
  different events.

35
ECOFATTING Technical future issues

• All Open discussion on actions to be carried
  out in the next six months of the project

36
ECOFATTING Dissemination future issues for the
next six months

• ACTIONS 13-22 Update
• In particular
• Action 13 production of new materials
• Action 14 production of new articles and
  technical articles
• Action 15 OK
• Action 16 OK
• Action 17 workshop in October-November in
  Colortex
• Action 18 workshop in October-November in
  INESCOP
• Action 19 participation at new 4 events
• Action 20 ENEA will produce a video in 3
  languages (English, Spanish and Italian) in which
  the ECOFATTING projects results will be shown.
• Action 21 production of new 5 posters
• Action 22 ICCOMCNR, with the support of all the
  partners, will produce the After-LIFE
  Communication Plan

37
ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES

• Next Deliverables
• Progress Report submitted
• Partner cost analysis
• Monitoring Team visit
• Final Report
• Audit
• Next meeting

38
NEXT DELIVERABLES

• Semi-industrial level Action 5
• Pre-industrial level Action 6
• Environmental demonstration Actions 7-8
• Study of technical-economic viability Action 10
• Videos Action 20
• Articles and press releases Actions 14, 21
• Dissemination materials Action 13-22
• Layman report Action 20
• After-LIFE Communication Plan Action 23
• Audit report Action 25
• Final Report Technical, Dissemination and
  Financial documents

39
Progress Report

• ICCOMCNR at the end of May 2013 has submitted the
  foreseen Progress Report to the EC and Monitoring
  Team, made up by
• Progress report with the summary of technical,
  administrative and dissemination project issues
• Dissemination Annex
• Deliverables

40
Partner cost analysis

41
Monitoring team visit

• The Monitoring Team (Ludovico Susani) will visit
  ICCOMCNR on 28th of June for checking the
  progress of the project technical activities and
  the administrative documents
• Ludovico Susani requested the presence only of
  ICCOMCNR and COLORTEX for checking the technical
  activities
• Please send to ICCOMCNR all the updated
  administrative documents before 20th of June

42
Final Report

• ICCOMCNR will be responsible of the production of
  the Final report which will be made up by
• Progress report with the summary of technical,
  administrative and dissemination project issues
• Dissemination Annex
• Deliverables
• Financial forms with all the originals signatures
  from each partner
• Audit document
• The EC ok of the Final report will produce the
  project final payment from the EC

43
Audit

• ICCOMCNR will be responsible for the production
  of an audit document signed by an external
  authorised auditor (already selected) which will
  certify all the project financial data.
• The selected auditor will check all the partner
  financial data and will be free to request to
  each partner more detailed documents.

44
Project meetings

• Project meetings
• 1st Kick off meeting in COLORTEX in Italy in
  January 2012
• 2nd Coordination meeting in ICCOMCNR in Italy in
  June 2012
• 3rd Coordination meeting in SERICHIM in Italy in
  January 2013
• 4th Coordination meeting in INESCOP in Spain in
  June 2013
• Next Final Project meeting
• 5th Coordination meeting in ICCOMCNR in Spain in
  December 2013