
Polo Innovazione Tessile - POINTEX
Overview
About us
Pointex operates in various roles:
Enterprise support and assistance during the submission of various projects. More than 50 of such projects and feasibility studies have been financed by the Piemonte Region, while at least 9 of them have already been rapidly commercialized with success
Animation, promotion and divulgation activities
Education for companies
Key collaboration, in Italy as well as abroad, with companies, research centres and other innovation clusters, not merely related to the textile sector.
Cluster composition
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99Cluster Members
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83SME's
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12Large Companies
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2Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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2Other Ecosystem Actors
Achievements
Together with our companies, we carried out several successfully submitted (and funded) projects. Their titles are the following:
AOS: Glue lamination of fabrics for technical furnishing with a special wadding which can replace expanded polyurethane foams
Colorpiù: Automatic system for slub yarns directly out of the spinning machine
Endyp: Research and testing of new ecological treatments, to make wool felting and shrinkage resistant
Green-Spin: Development of a new drafting system for woolen ring spinning machine
MARTE: Anti-bacterial materials for textile covering
Multilayer: Development of new types of multilayer yarns made of different fibres and development of a new spinning production process
Navaltex: New high-added value textile products for marine and shipbuilding applications
PFM: Development of automatic systems for the painting and flocking of metallic springs for automotive applications
WOOLRES: Wool recycle Eco System
INFEEDER: Control actuator of the conical field
INNOYARN: Production of wool yarn with different percentages od fibers of vegetable origin
MCA: Multilayer modular flameproof textile product
PROMOTE: Innovative process of deposition of natural bio-active molecules for the manufacture of fabrics for health and well-being
AOS: Glue lamination of fabrics for technical furnishing with a special wadding
ENDYP: Research and testing of new ecological treatments, to make wool felting and shrinkage resistant
NAVALTEX: New high-added value textile products for marine and shipbuilding applications
Various of them are listed and fully described at this direct link of our website (only in Italian, so far):
Management team
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral Industries
Technology fields
S3 EU priority areas
Cross-sectoral industries
Key members
Profile name | Location | |
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Città Studi | ||
Città Studi S.p.A. | ||
Regione Piemonte |
Services
Support services provided
Further information
We serve our companies in various roles, as listed above - from advisory to internationalization support, public (regional, national, European) funding access, etc.
We also carry our research, and technological transfer, on various textile-related issues. Some of them are:
Virtualization processes, RFID devices applied to textile finishing processes, special textile finishing of metallic springs, hemp-based composites for construction, textile natural fibers for sustainable buildings, aramidic fibers, antibacterial materials for coating of fabrics, wool recycle eco systems, nanostructured textiles for hydroponics, smart textiles for rehabilitation and bio-medical applications.
Support programmes
EU Programmes
Name & description
Project name
MIDWOR-LIFE
LIFE-FLAREX
TEXTILE 2020
EU-TEXTILE2030
TEX4IM
ALLIANCE
REGIOTEX
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational support activites
International support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairsFurther information
We are in close partnership with various European clusters, like LEITAT (Terrassa), CETIM (Barcellona), CSIC-IQAC, CLUTEX, etc.
We also represent our companies, and provide support, at internationally relevant fairs and events like for instance: ITMA, Filo, Milano Unica, Techtextil, CITEXT, INDEX etc.
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