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project info
Start date: 31 December 2014
End date: 4 February 2016
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 143 520,00 €
EU contribution: 71 760,00 € (50%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER de la Dirección General de Fondos Comunitarios. Ministerio de Hacienda y Administraciones Publicas.

ESMALSEC — Dry application of curtain enamels

The application of dry enamels is one of the objectives that has always been pursued by the ceramic tile manufacturing sector.The advantages are obvious:water saving, improvement in cleaning of the line, drastic reduction of the amount of waste, etc. However, all attempts that have been made so far have proved unsuccessful. Electrostatic decoration did not resolve issues such as the adhesion of granules to the pieces, so it could not be used on an industrial scale and the current inkjet decoration, applied to the deposition of enamel is, at present, uncompetitive economically with respect to the application of hood suspensions and the speed of application does not conform to the current productivity of the manufacturing lines. That is why in this project it is proposed to develop a new system of application of dry enamel inspired by the ancient methods of decoration with filera Valencian.

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