ALICANTE, July 31. (EUROPEAN PRESS) –
Inescop carries out, during 2023, ten RD projects with financing from the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (Ivace) and the European Union of 1,995,591.80 million euros.
Advancing towards the decarbonisation of the sector, digitizing processes and ensuring that companies manufacture and design with consumer comfort and health in mind are the objectives that Inescop has set as part of its RD strategy in 2023.
Through the projects, 41 companies in the footwear sector of the Valencian Community actively collaborate in the development of innovative solutions and technological improvements that will respond to the main challenges facing the industry today, as reported by the center technology in a statement.
Casual style sports shoes, so widespread among users, are assumed to have comfort that cannot be verified, since there is no scientific methodology that establishes the properties or factors that promote it. For this reason, the Comfyfoot project is working on a methodology so that companies can quantify the comfort of sneakers taking into account the last and the morphology of the user’s foot while walking.
For its part, the Ecoindustry project investigates the improvement of the efficiency of mechanical recycling processes to obtain an effective separation of the different materials, also exploring new models of industrial symbiosis with other sectors; The Dex-Linking II project investigates a new continuous de-crosslinking process that converts EVA plastic waste into a raw material with properties similar to those of the virgin polymer.
Within the efforts of the leather sector aimed at improving its sustainability, is the search for finishing products that allow compostable leather to be obtained. The Compost Leather-Able II project focuses its research on determining the effect of the products used in the leather finishing process on its compostability and mineralization to determine if the resulting compost is suitable for use as organic fertilizer.
Pass4shoes seeks to respond to the need for transparent and truthful information from companies on the footwear production cycle, which will also facilitate the transition towards the Digital Product Passport that will soon enter into force in the European Union.
The Nano4coat initiative aims to optimize and validate novel water absorption and repellency treatments in material finishes using low-pressure plasma technology.
For its part, the Circadh project is investigating new technologies that make it possible to offer adhesives with reversibility and dismantled properties on demand, without compromising the durability of the product, but that facilitate the recycling of its components after their useful life.
The Handybot II project takes advantage of the great potential that the sector has to introduce robotics and automation in its production processes and works on the implementation of robotic hands with a high manipulative capacity, capable of interacting with different parts and components, as well as with the worn footwear.
For its part, the Knit3dshoes project addresses the irruption of knitting or knitting technology for the manufacture of footwear, since this requires specific 3D design methodologies for uppers (insteps).
The Shoes4avatars project works to facilitate the path of companies towards the world of metaverses and transfer all the knowledge and tools necessary for them to be able to develop virtual shoes for the different metaverses in a simple and fast way.
