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Sustainability Open innovation Contest

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

Emerging solutions

The targets include start-ups, university spin-offs, research centres, with solutions (components or technologies) of at least TRL 6 (Technology demonstrated in industrially-relevant environments).

Ready-made Solutions

It targets companies producing solutions (components or technologies) that are already available on the market in a large or small scale.

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.

Fill out the form to apply

Timeline of the Call for Solutions

Timeline Call4Solutions San Marco Group

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.

Emerging solutions

Opportunity to have one's solutions tested and validated in a concrete industrial application, opportunities for development and collaboration a medium- to long-term perspective, communication and visibility.

Ready-made Solutions

Supply opportunities in a medium- to long-term perspective, communication and visibility.

DO YOU WANT TO APPLY?
The form to apply will be available online starting from 6 October, 2022.

Open Innovation for SMG
San Marco Group opens its doors to Open Innovation to capture innovative and sustainable ideas and create synergies.
Open Innovation for SMG
ReThink Coatings
The first Call4Solutions in partnership with Materially, and the reasons why we took this path.
SMG and Materially, for Open Innovation
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