ReThink Next Generation Coatings
San Marco Group, a leading Italian building paints and coatings company, is launching a Call for Solutions open to companies, start-ups and research centres that can propose innovative material solutions aimed at reducing the environmental impact of water-based building paints and coatings. The project is carried out in cooperation with Materially, a company specializing in the development and dissemination of innovation and sustainability from materials.
Subject of the Call for Solutions
The Call is aimed at individuals who can provide solutions that may involve components or technologies that reduce the environmental impact of products. Examples are:
- fillers;
- binders;
- pigments, bleaches;
- additives (wetting agents, dispersants, thickeners);
- raw materials and components that contribute to the reduction in weight or amount for the same performance;
- components with bio-based or recycled content;
- titanium dioxide replacement solutions;
- VOC reduction solutions;
- solutions that contribute to carbon neutrality;
- technologies for recycling or reducing waste of paints/varnishes at one or more life-cycle stages (production, application, disposal);
- solutions for reducing the heat-island effect.
Who can participate
Evaluation criteria
The evaluation of the solutions will be carried out by a Jury composed of an external coordinator, the San Marco Group technical team, and Materially professionals, who will choose the best innovative and sustainable solution for each of the two competing categories, with a maximum of three proposals per category. The reward aspects that will be considered are:
- Reduction of environmental impact in formulation, production, application, use or disposal, in the form of reduction of the overall carbon footprint of the product or system to which it is applied, and reduction of potentially-polluting agents (VOCs, TiO2). By way of example:
- reduction of the overall weight of the product;
- reduction of amount for the same performance;
- bio-based content;
- recycled content;
- titanium dioxide substitution;
- VOC reduction;
- recyclability or waste reduction;
- durability;
- quality of living.
- degree of solution innovativeness;
- degree of technology development;
- ease of implementation;
- impact compared to overall component use;
- productive availability;
- price.
How to participate
To participate, it is sufficient to be a duly registered company and to own one or more solutions meeting the above criteria. The application is made by filling out the form below, in which contact details, a summary description of the submitted solution and an indication of its scope of innovativeness and sustainability will be requested. Sensitive information with respect to the proposed solution (formulations or other technical information covered by confidentiality) will not be requested at this stage.
Timeline of the Call for Solutions
Why participate
The primary objective of the Call is to activate opportunities for collaboration with a view to sustainability**, which may turn into a business relationship from Stage 4 (post-award) upon agreement between the parties.
DO YOU WANT TO APPLY?
The form to apply will be available online starting from 6 October, 2022.