EcoCerâmica e Cristalaria de Portugal

Innovation for the Ceramic and Glassware sectors: global competitiveness, sustainability, circular economy, digital transition, and empowerment

Description

An integrated, cross-cutting proposal for the Ceramics and Crystal sectors, geared towards their critical competitiveness factors and aimed at improving their international positioning. With a focus on 4 central thematic areas – energy sustainability, circular economy and industrial symbioses, digital transition and capacity building – it is committed to developing new products, processes and services with high added value, based on new models of cross-sector industrial organization, thus ensuring progress in the international value chain and a focus on activities with higher added value.

Objective

To increase the competitiveness of the national ceramics and crystal industry, based on factors of innovation, differentiation and a strong collaborative dynamic and investment in innovation throughout the various segments of the sector’s value chain, supported by improving the qualification of its assets.

Impact

Products, processes and services (PPS) resulting from the project:
1. Conversion of existing furnaces (NG/H2);
2. Conversion of existing NG distribution infrastructures to NG/H2;
3. Roller kiln;
4. Decision support tool for implementing heat recovery projects;
5. Service and technologies for retrofitting systems to promote process decarbonization;
6. Industrial park monitoring service using non-intrusive methodologies;
7. Centralized logistics service for waste collection and recovery;
8. ECOBLEND GP – New raw material for eco-sustainable ceramic flooring paste;
9. REVVER – New eco-sustainable Ceramic Tile Paste;
10. GRESVER – New ceramic paste for eco-sustainable stoneware tableware;
11. Glass with a higher rate of incorporation of hulls and other by-products for glass production;
12. New Eco-Sustainable Ceramic Paste for Soft Porcelain Tableware;
13. New Eco-Sustainable Ceramic Paste for Stoneware Tableware
14. New Eco-Sustainable Ceramic Paste for porcelain stoneware floors;
15. New Eco-Sustainable Ceramic Paste for Vitreous China Sanitary Ware;
16. New production process for low-temperature sintering;
17. Soft Porcelain Tableware with Innovative LOFT Porcelain Paste for Low Temperature Sintering;
18. Stoneware Tableware with Innovative LOFT Stoneware Paste for Low Temperature Sintering;
19. Porcelain Stoneware Flooring with Innovative LOFT Tile Paste for Sintering at Reduced Temperature;
20. Sanitary Ware with Innovative Eco-Sustainable Paste;
21. New glossy glaze for eco-sustainable sanitary ware adapted to reduced temperature;
22. New opaque glaze for eco-sustainable sanitary ware adapted to reduced temperature;
23. National BIM content platform for the ceramics industry;
24. Digital warehouses for ceramic molds and lathes;
25. Digital production system for ceramic product models and moulds;
26. Traceability system for ceramic products;
27. Platform for integrating data from the ceramics industry’s production chain;
28. Interoperability platform;
29. New transversal services;
30. Online Waste Resource Center platform;
31. Waste Resource Management Services;
32. Digital Training Academy for the Ceramics and Glass sectors;
33. ECOSAN – New Ceramic Paste for Sanitary Ware in eco-sustainable stoneware.