The HEINZ-GLAS Group's Polish decoration site, 2HD in Dzialdowo, has received funding from the European Union for the project ‘Development and introduction of a product innovation in the form of a new generation of glass finishes with novel technological and functional properties for cosmetic packaging’, including autonomous technology in the manufacturing process.
Planned tasks and measures within the project are:
- Investigation of how mixing process parameters, colour composition and substrate type influence the quality of the coating on cosmetic packaging.
- Research into models and algorithms for intelligent colour preparation management.
- Development of a new generation of inks for inkjet and screen printing finishes for cosmetic packaging.
- Construction of a prototype system for autonomous transport between work steps with integrated visual quality control.
- Development of new decorations for cosmetic packaging and innovative manufacturing processes.
- Introduction of a system for autonomous transport and visual quality control as a process innovation.
- Implementation of an autonomous mixer for intelligent control of colour preparation.
- Market launch of a new generation of decorations for cosmetic packaging with novel technological and functional properties.
- Registration of designs and innovations for industrial property rights.
- Participation in trade fairs, conferences and industry events for the international marketing of the project results.
The primary target groups are customers in the perfume and cosmetics industry. This industry plays an important role due to the growing demand for elegant, personalised packaging to highlight the unique character of their products.
The project objective is to develop and introduce a new generation of decorations with novel technological and functional properties for cosmetic packaging – a product innovation with supraregional significance.
The ‘Internationalisation’ module focuses on the global marketing of these innovations and on the protection of intellectual property, in particular the chemical composition and manufacturing process of the colours and inks developed within the project for screen and inkjet printing.
The most important objectives and results of the project will include:
- the manufacturing possibilities for decorations using inkjet, screen printing, lacquering and PVD 2.0 technologies, which create unique combination possibilities for glass and plastic surfaces<
- an intelligent system for colour and lacquer preparation (autonomous mixer)
- and an autonomous transport system with integrated quality control between the individual decoration processes.
Total project volume: PLN 14,181,532.74 (EUR 3.33 million)
of whichEU funding: PLN 5,805,685.57 (EUR 1.36 million)
