55 years of creativity

annual report 2012

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In 1886, Jules Verne published Robur the Conqueror, a novel in which Phil Evans and Uncle Prudent, firm believers in “lighter than air” craft, are kidnapped by the engineer Robur and imprisoned in a cabin in his airship, The Albatross. Phil Evans tries to make a hole in the wall with his Bowie knife, but all he does is to damage the blade. “What was this material, so hard that the Bowie knife of Phil Evans could not scratch it, and Uncle Prudent could not explain its nature?” The two colleagues are wondering about this when Robur opens the door… and gives them the answer: “Simply paper! For some years this fabrication had been making considerable progress. Unsized paper, with the sheets impregnated with dextrin and starch and squeezed in hydraulic presses, will form a material as hard as steel. There are made of it pulleys, rails, and wagon-wheels, much more solid than metal wheels, and far lighter. And it was this lightness and solidity which Robur availed himself of in building his aerial locomotive. Everything - framework, hull, houses, cabins - were made of straw-paper turned hard as metal by compression, and - what was not to be despised in an apparatus flying at great heights - incombustible. The different parts of the engines and the screws were made of gelatinized fibre, which combined in sufficient degree flexibility with resistance. This material could be used in every form. It was insoluble in most gases and liquids, acids or essences, to say nothing of its insulating properties, and it proved most valuable in the electric machinery of The Albatross.”

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The CTP celebrated its 55th birthday in 2012. Two to three generations of industrial investment, time to mature, qualify and transfer lasting technological improvements bringing the promise of innovation and progress for companies. Society as a whole has sized up the situation and realised that our responsibilities are global. Yes, we know that another two or three generations can continue living according to the current economic model based on fossil fuels. Or we can adopt a more

sustainable one! New opportunities for development, enabling us to continue producing and consuming, are to be found in everything that is renewable, and in particular in plants, in forests! We have no choice but to invest in a biosourced and circular economy, a concept that guided all civilisations for thousands of years… but one that was forgotten to a certain extent during the past century. Back in the 19th century, certain visionaries already envisaged development based on biosourced products. While the aircraft described by Jules Verne in 1866, made entirely of paper with reinforced fibres, was pure science fiction, celluloid based on cellulose was indeed invented by the Hyatt brothers four years later, in 1870. Like Jules Verne and in a similar spirit, the CTP and its partners in the Carnot PolyNat Institute are attempting to reawaken the great questionings of Science, in particular via a different approach to green carbon, while remaining attentive to the needs of their industrial customers and the expectations of society, and actively participating in the creation of value. Today, via its research programmes, the CTP mobilises creative minds and skills to work on projects that are paving the way for the future: new functionalised fibres, new recyclable and recycled biosourced materials with improved barrier properties, etc. Drawing on its close partnerships with other Industrial Technical Centres, the Carnot Institutes, professional organisations, French and European technology platforms, the CTP is at the heart of public and industrial policies and able to develop new synergies. It is a keen member of the European PPP initiative Bridge1, aimed at creating an interconnected network comprising the major players in the field of bioeconomics capable of promoting new productive uses of plant-based materials. This is the vision we share with the rest of our profession. Our industry is a major player in bioeconomics, and it is issuing these challenges for the year 2050… a way of preparing fertile ground for the two to three generations of industrial investment to come!

6\9 rESEarCH & DEVELOPmENT• Assisting research projects… from idea to industrial application • Innovative projects creating value

10\25 TECHNOLOgY TraNSFEr / INNOVaTION• Higher performance tissues and nonwovens• Inventing the paper of the future • Compliance with regulations to protect the consumer • Choosing the right raw material for quality corrugating paper• Bringing partners together to study the natural active ingredients of wood • All the added value of fast inkjet printing!• Limiting biofilm… and the use of biocide!

26\27 EVENTSMain events of 2012

28\33 INNOVaTION• MFC, a new barrier! • Do “bio-tiful” materials fit into the packaging value chain? • The birth of recyclable electronics!

34\35 rESuLTS• Oraganisation chart• What were the important figures in 2012?

36 rESEarCH ParTNErSHIPCarnot PolyNat Institute… An alliance at the service of Bioeconomics!

37 aNNIVErSarYThe CTP celebrates its 55th anniversary with its employees!

Two to three GENERATIONS

1) Biobased and renewable Industries for Development and growth in Europe. It is a Public Private Partnership (PPP)

Gilles Lenon managing Director

Jérôme Grassin Chairman

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research & development

This has been the role of the CTP – and more generally of all the Industrial Technical Centres – for 55 years. In 2012, several of them that are accustomed to working together decided to rank their activities on the TRL scale1 for the sake of curiosity. It was a way of highlighting the in-depth work that ranges from translating industrial requirements into ideas and then developing them until they are applicable and viable for a given market.

Assisting research projects…from idea to industrial application

What in fact are the Industrial Technical Centres (CTIs)? although they have capitalised on more than 50 years’ experience, a signifi-cant proportion of their technological activity is often confidential and is known only to the industries concerned. Forming a link between academic research and industry, they have been involved in many technological changes and experienced great upheavals in their sectors of industry. The network is deeply rooted in industry but is nevertheless strikingly modern! and industrialists are well aware of this. They know they can rely on the CTIs’ solid experience and pragmatic approach to provide a range of skills and services2

covering all their needs from the very short term to long-range fore-casting. The CTIs have developed a way of collaborating closely with the companies in their particular sectors and are well known to them, but news of their success rarely gets outside the factory! and yet….

“A network that ought to be strengthened!”The hearing of the CTIs3 before France’s National assembly provided a measure of their “highly pragmatic and concrete involvement alongside SmEs and their proactive approach in the field of innovation”. The CTIs’ core activity covers 34 industrial sectors with a total turnover of 225 billion euros a year and a total workforce of 1.1 million, i.e. 40% of all industrial jobs in France. The 18 CTIs form a network of 3000 resear-chers in direct contact with 38,000 companies in 2012 alone.The rhône-alpes region alone boasts 10 CTIs in contact with 7000 com-panies. For its part, the CTP issues some 1400 costed proposals a year, leading to 800 orders from 600 companies with which it is in active contact. a figure that speaks volumes and goes to prove that a centre’s expertise may far exceed its core activity and geographical region.These days industrial research is not completed within 2-3 years, nor is it restricted to the purchase of a patent and a quick transfer of techno-logy. It is built up over the long term! For 55 years, the CTP has drawn on mature research, which has resulted in tangible, effective and lasting

achievements. The CTIs have plenty of evidence when it comes to demons-trating their ability to stimulate industrial performance, and they have the figures to prove it.

Where we come on the TRL scaleIn 2012, via its Performance Contract, the CTP ranked the progress of projects in its general research Programme on a four-level scale:• Potential, a project at conceptual scale; • Realistic, a project at the laboratory demonstration stage;• Demonstrated, a project at pilot production stage; • Completed, a project at industrialisation stage, ready to be

handed over.

This simplified grading of projects matches the TrL scale, which uses 9 levels to rank the technological emergence of a project up to maturity.

1) Technology readiness Level 2) The CTP’s extends from a test costing €41 up to €710,6003) CTI hearing by the National assembly’s Economic affairs Commission

on 31 October 2012

Focus

A few CTP projects ranked according to the TRL scale 1 A3PLE / TRL RANkING 2.5 TO 4 / A “REALIsTIC” sTAGE This European project being coordinated by the CTP aims to develop printed electronics solutions. an initial electronic circuit consisting of a few components was printed on paper. This prototype was selected for the OEa4 showroom at the 5th International Exhibition and Conference for the Organic and Printed Electronics Industry - June 11-13, 2013, messe munich, germany.

2 CHROMATOGENy / TRL RANkING 5 TO 7 / A “DEMONsTRATED” sTAGE This is a Clean-Tech breakthrough technology aimed at producing tomorrow’s biosourced barrier materials. Developed at industrial level by the CTP and BT3

Technologies, this patented innovation is superbly adapted to lignocellulose ma-terials in general and to paper and board in particular.

3 METAPAPER / TRL RANkING 8 TO 9 / A “COMPLETED” sTAGE This industrial innovation has led to a patented printed electronics application. Derived from recyclable bioresources, this new functional wallpaper acts as a selective filter for electromagnetic waves produced by Wifi systems and mobile phones. Other waves, such as Fm bands or alarms, are not blocked.

4) Organic Electronic association.

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research & development

One of the roles of an Industrial Technical Centre is to act as a bridge between research and the industries in its sector. The CTP entertains special relations with its industrial partners by responding to the specific, permanent requirement of any company, namely to create value. Transferring the results of R&D to production sites is an unavoidable stage for the CTP nowadays. Ensuring scientific applications and industrial successes has become the keystone of our client relations and has led us to adapt our way of operating.

Innovative projects creating value

The value chain in the short, medium and long terms depends on three things: raw materials or inputs, the actual process and the products intended to meet market expectations.

The 2012-2015 Performance Contract is part of the process of thinking about how we assist and support the development of our industry. One of the six objectives of the CTP’s Performance Contract is to ensure greater clarity with respect to our roadmap. This involves offering industrial clients a partnership that is consistent with their future needs so that we can assist with their innovations.

Towards a new “market” segmentationEach project in the General Research Programme is designed to fit within the framework defined for each of our nine scientific Action Priorities (sAP): • Lignocelluloses chemistry• Biobased materials• Health and Safety applications• Packaging of the future• Printed Electronics Smart Paper• New Value for recovered Paper & Board• Water - Energy• Printed Communication• Industrial Performance

Progress in each project is evaluated according to its degree of maturity. Four levels of value creation have been defined in keeping with the TRL scale1: • Potential at idea stage• Proof of the concept at laboratory stage• Demonstration at pilot stage• maturity at industrial scale

Lignocelluloses chemistry Biobased materials Health and Safety applications Packaging of the future Printed Electronics Smart Paper New Value for recovered Paper & Board Water - Energy Printed Communication Industrial Performance

The CTP has reviewed its offer of service to enable our industrial partners to perceive these developments and enable us to propose a wide range of projects in line with their market strategies. In 2013 the general research Programme is broken down into seven PACkAGEs combining a set of relevant Scientific action Priorities for their market/ product strategies.

For example:• The “recycled” package is aimed more especially at producers/users

of deinked and recycled pulps. It is a portfolio of projects featuring 5 SaP.

• The “Packaging” package is aimed primarily at producers and users of lignocellulosic packaging materials. The 5 SaP in the package address the major challenges of these sectors.

This overhaul of our services means modernising our resources and processes to ensure greater consistency: • The profiles of our clients’ requirements via our Crm2 and extranet• aligning contracts with our planning and analytical/accounting

resources (ErP)3.This work will be finalised by the end of the first half of 2013.

The aim of all these changes is to make the CTP’s skills and means of action clearer and more relevant in serving as many of our industrial partners as possible. The results of this research will necessarily pro-duce a return on investment, provided that industrialists and scientists agree upon common objectives.

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1) TrL: Technology readiness Level

2) Crm: Customer relationship management

3) ErP: Enterprise resource Planning

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A complete range of services for tissuesThe CTP offers a wide range of services for tissue and nonwoven producers and processors, from simple Cofrac1-accredited physical tests to long-term r&D projects. For example, one aim is to opti-mise fibre composition and treatment to achieve the desired sof-tness. The Softness and Tissue+ projects modelled softness on the basis of the morphological characteristics of fibres and the surface state following creping. These projects allow industries to obtain objective evaluations in order to select fibres with the greatest po-tential softness and to apply the most appropriate treatments to develop this sensory quality. Today, the Absorb project is taking this approach further by adding pulp absorption capacity to the models that have already been developed.

Methodological assistanceas far as nonwovens are concerned, the CTP’s flushability labora-tory is the only recognised independent laboratory in Europe for carrying out tests in line with the methodological guide published by the Edana2 and Inda3. Our experts also participate in the wor-king group set up by these professional associations to study this issue. The CTP has contributed to the proactive methodological

approach taken by the nonwoven industry to demonstrate that their products are compatible with water treatment systems from domestic toilets through to urban sewage treatment installations.

Development of sensors to improve product qualityThe centre also develops new analysis tools on a regular basis, the latest being 3D-Map, which performs a topographical analysis of the sur-face of textured or embossed products. This contactless, optical measurement system accurately evaluates a product’s roughness or reliefs ranging from several tens to several hundreds of microns over a surface area of several square centimetres, in spite of the pro-duct’s compressibility. It can now be used to assess product quality or analyse defects.

standardisationIn addition to these various technological approaches, the CTP takes part in standardisation work for French, European and international institutions in the field of paper. as an example, the group’hygiène4

professional association appointed the CTP to assist it with standar-disation work on tissue products.

1) Details can be found on the following site: www.cofrac.fr. 2) European Disposables and Nonwovens association (the international association for the nonwovens and related industries).3) International Nonwovens and Disposables association (the leading global association of the nonwoven fabrics industry).4) group’hygiène is the French professional manufacturers association of single use products for wiping, hygiene and health.

The CTP has defined nine Scientific Action Priorities, one of which is dedicated to health and safety applications of tissues and nonwovens. Given the major challenges facing today’s society – an aging population, increasing demand for healthcare, prevention of health risks – there are many reasons for innovating in this field.

Higher performance tissues and nonwovens

Valérie Pouillat

general manager group’hygiène

The CTP’s +…

You have to be present if you want to be heard when it comes to finalising or revising standards to facilitate business exchanges. The CTP is the expert intermediary between our profession and the European and international standardisation institutions. It is the mouthpiece for our members and knows how to defend our points of view.

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The BoostEff project aims to identify new possibilities for making paper, with optimum control of its properties and in particular a reduction in basis weight. This is achieved notably by combining stratification and fractioning.

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Launched in June 2010 for a period of three years, the European BoostEff project follows the large Ecotarget 1 integrated project. Coordinated by Innventia, it involves 12 partners including six industrial firms. The project aims to develop new stratified manufacturing concepts for fibre-based products, i.e. new prospects for a circular economy.

At industrial level and for three main applications:• manufacturing SC virgin-fibre papers whose stratified structure means

it is possible to reduce basis weight and/or increase filler content, thus saving energy and raw materials;

• developing LWC papers made entirely from deinked pulp as a new way to maximise the potential of recovered papers while pushing back the limits of fractioning thereby reducing basis weight;

• producing fibre panels by applying the concept of fibre stratification and fractioning as well as by incorporating the possibility of using waste from paper recycling production lines in their structure.

stratifying and fractioningIn traditional papermaking, a jet of pulp is spread on the paper machine. after the water has been removed by dripping, pressing and drying, a sheet of paper is formed. The first innovation proposed by

BoostEff is to form the sheet using several distinct jets of pulp spread simultaneously on the forming device by means of a strati-fied head-box. The various jets of pulp are combined upon leaving the head-box to produce a stratified paper whose properties can be adjusted much more precisely than with conventional technology. The second innovation consists in developing fractioning technologies to separate the various pulp constituents (autumn and spring fibres, fine elements, etc.). In this way, the various fractions can be treated in the most appropriate way and positioned in the most judicious way within the sheet.By combining these two innovations, it is possible to adjust the sheet’s rigidity, surface roughness, internal cohesion, and optical properties, among other elements. One of the most interesting ap-plications is to use the same type of pulp but to increase the sheet’s rigidity by carefully distributing the various fractions. This reduces the basis weight while maintaining the same properties. This application could be used to reduce the basis weight of all types of paper, especially packaging paper and board. a patent has been filed for this combination of fractioning and stratification.

1) FP6, 2004-2008, 26 partners.

Frédéric Vaulot

r&D Director Kadant Lamort

The CTP’s +…

CTP teams have demonstrated a magnificent ability to combine several technologies to create a completely novel way to produce paper. For many years we were anticipating that fibres would need to be placed in the Z-direction to achieve the best performance potential. And CTP, through a painstaking and rigorous initiative, has been able to demonstrate that this is feasible to achieve in an industrial setting.

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It is essential to check the conformity of a material or article made of paper or board for food contact in order to avoid any health risk – for people or animals – when the food is consumed.

Compliance with regulations to protect the consumer

Safety has become a major concern with regard to food and health. It is forbidden to market materials and articles for food contact if they do not comply with regulations, and the same goes for foods-tuffs that have been in contact with non-compliant materials and articles. a paper-board product can only conserve and protect food if it meets the principle of inertia set out in article 3 of regulation (EC) 1935/2004. It must therefore be manufactured in accordance with best practice so that, in normal or likely conditions of use, it will not release any components into foodstuffs in quantities liable to present a health risk or cause an unacceptable modification of their com-position or alteration of their organoleptic properties. Suitability for food contact is determined by checking the acceptability of the fibre and non-fibre composition of the paper-board and its compliance with the maximum permitted levels of specific substances, and evaluating their potential migration into the food in normal, fore-seeable conditions of use. rules and recommendations concerning best manufacturing practice, labelling and traceability must be complied with.

Control, quality, traceability, conformity, food safety, industrial risks The CTP has state-of-the-art analytical facilities for checking the purity of materials or articles made of paper and board. It relies on its sensory, chemical and microbiological analysis laboratories1, whose independence is guaranteed through a quality assurance policy involving continuous performance improvement. In addition, the CTP is well aware of the difficulties and challenges facing the profession and therefore offers industrial companies its technical support, advice and expertise in the fields of paper and board for food contact and chemical safety. It assists sector players in applying regulations or implementing essential actions to guarantee safety, and industrial firms in managing their daily activities by issuing recommendations and proposing improvements in accordance with changes in legislation and/or standards. Lastly, the CTP works as an impartial and independent third party in customer/supplier relations so that each party is assured of the pertinence and validity of any information exchanged, in a context where confidentiality is a major preoccupation.

1) ISO 17025 accredited.

andrew Findlay

Technology and Innovation Director arjowiggins graphic Division

The CTP’s +…

The CTP is an essential expert service that helps Arjowiggins Graphic division to take all necessary decisions that are required to support our “food contact” range of papers. The benefits provided by CTP expert service includes proactive alerts to future changes to “food contact” legislation, analyses on specific paper or products, as well as detailed specialist knowledge. This input is invaluable as part of the process that ensures that Arjowiggins Graphic papers continually satisfy the “food contact” requirements of our customers.

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Nampak Corrugated uses several categories of recovered paper and board to produce its corrugating paper. The paper must have sufficient mechanical strength to meet Nampak’s expectations, but also those of its customers. Suppliers based in South Africa offered Nampak a raw material called Industrial Mixed Waste (IMW), consisting of boards and complex substances. Before making a final decision, Nampak asked the CTP to evaluate the grade’s paper-making potential and put forward recommendations so that the company could make the right strategic choices for its supplies!

Choosing the right raw material for quality corrugating paper!

Nampak Corrugated chose the CTP on account of its expertise in the field of packaging recycling chains. as the CTP was a major contributor to standard EN6431 it has also gained extensive knowledge of the recycled materials used. The CTP therefore proposed the best test protocol for assessing the ImW grade at laboratory scale.as soon as the CTP received a representative sample of the raw material, it sorted it manually to determine its exact composition. The initial analyses showed that the ImW did not contain any corru-gated board, though this is highly sought-after by paper-makers on account of its potential mechanical properties. This grade contained a large proportion of complex multi-material packaging, combining plastics and aluminium with cellulose fibres. The ImW grade was then recycled in near-industrial conditions.In spite of good fibre individualisation, which is synonymous with low pulping energy, the ImW produced a significant quantity of plastic and aluminium waste. The refined pulp was then characterised. It contained more than a third of mineral fillers and fine cellulosic

elements. Papers produced with this pulp would probably have little mechanical strength. To confirm this, laboratory sheets were analysed and indeed the CmT, burst and SCT indices were low. Lastly, the WrV method indicated the low water retention value of the fibres.With a relatively high proportion of unwanted materials (non-fibrous elements), a composition containing large quantities of short fibres and mineral fillers and severe fibre hardening, the CTP concluded that the ImW grade was of poor quality for paper-making and did not recom-mend using it for producing corrugating paper. Nampak Corrugated followed this advice and excluded ImW from its list of supplies. In this way, it is able to guarantee the quality of its corrugating paper by choosing the right sources of supply.

1) European list of standard grades of paper and board recovered for recycling.

raymond Lund

general Director Nampak Corrugated

The CTP’s +…

Nampak recovers and sorts paper from numerous sources in the Southern Africa region. Thanks to CTP and the study performed, we have a good understanding of the fibre quality in the recovered paper which has enabled our business to make the right decisions in terms of sourcing recovered paper thus ensuring we maintain optimum paper machine runnability and continue to meet customer expectations in terms of paper performance.

alain

CoCHAux

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almost 148 million m3 of wood from thinning operations and sawmill waste1 is consumed each year in Europe to produce chemical and mechanical pulps. Bark and knots are the main by-products from pulp manufacturing. They are unsuitable for producing cellulose fibres but are a source of energy for industrial sites. rich in extractible compounds (resins, polyphenols, etc.), bark and knot extracts have significant bioactive properties and could be used for high value-added applications as the active ingredients in nutraceuticals, pharmaceu-ticals and cosmetics.The CTP has extensive expertise in the field of extractible wood com-pounds, particularly via the European Cerberus project (2003-2007, European success story2). On the basis of this successful experience, the CTP continued work in this area by initiating a new collaborative project within France: FUI Bioextra (€1.9m, with a subsidy worth more than €1m).For the first time, the CTP brought together players from the French pulp and paper-making and plant extraction industries as well as specialists in polyphenols and active ingredients from plants. By contributing

its experience, the CTP was able to persuade industrialists from a wide range of sectors to come together to implement a large-scale project. as project coordinator, the CTP was also designated to perform a technical and economic analysis of the new integrated process. Partnerships of this kind are essential to remove uncertainties sur-rounding the industrial feasibility of such projects and to demonstrate the technological maturity of potential applications that are some-times far from our core activities.

Providing new economic perspectivesThe CTP organised, coordinated and monitored this project. It enabled the industries involved to discover a new way of making use of wood residues produced by pulp factories. The project was initiated in 2010 and focused first of all on the chemical and biological characteri-sation of several wood residues from the partners’ plants. The most promising samples were then tested at pilot scale. Tests were carried out to examine applications of the extracts. It is possible to extract the bioactive substances without disturbing the site’s energy balance and this opens up prospects of a new economic model for the plant. although the project’s industrial feasibility was demonstrated both technically and economically, its industrial spin-off is still modest, with only a few hundred kilograms of extract being produced per year. With several thousand tonnes of residue, a site could eventually produce up to 20-40 tonnes of high value-added extract per year.

1) CEPI, 2011 statistics.2) CErBEruS QLK5-2002-010207.

Bark and knots, which are unfit for cellulose fibre production, offer a new source of high value-added active ingredients that can be used as molecules in related industries, as shown by the FUI BioExtra project. The CTP coordinated this ambitious project, bringing together the major players in the sector to work on a common set of objectives.

Bringing partners together to study the natural active ingredients of wood

Jean-Jacques Meyneng

Energy and recovery plant manager Smurfit Kappa Cellulose du Pin

The CTP’s +…

The role played by the CTP was essential and determining. His capacity to mobilize research centers the most adapted to the subject, to federate and to coordinate them with industrialists of very different specialties bringing their expertise and in capacity to develop applications, is irreplaceable. This mixture skillfully mastered allowed to generate a work of very high quality which should eventually uncork on development industrialists.

frédérique

BERTAud

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Printed documents are changing fast and are competing with electronic media. They must therefore adapt if they are to continue to play their role. One way of doing so – which the CTP has been exploring – is fast inkjet printing. This allows printed documents to be customised and adapted to requirements while keeping down costs.

all the added value of fast inkjet printing!

Fast inkjet printing is aimed at a large number of sectors, such as transactional and promotional material, books (with the trend towards print on demand: POD), magazines and even newspapers (with the possibility of delivering the day’s issue to readers wherever they are, something that was hardly conceivable up to now). The SIPPA project, which offers innovative coating formulations suited to this process at an economically viable price, is a first step in this direction. Since 2008, with the arrival of single pass fast inkjet printers, there have been considerable changes in the digital press. Print heads and inks are increasingly targeted to specific markets and media. r&D work must therefore be adapted to keep pace with these developments. But adjusting a formulation on a paper machine involves larges quantities of products and inter-rupts production for several hours. The CTP has therefore produced a pilot, i-SpeedJET, which fills a gap in this field.

simulating, measuring, quantifying and predicting high-speed inkjet printingThis pilot, which is used in the CTP laboratory, can also be trans-ported to paper-making sites so that tests and adjustments to formulations, application and drying operations at the coating unit

can be quickly assessed and corrected. It can be installed offline from a paper machine to predict print quality using high speed inkjet printers just a few minutes after the paper has been pro-duced, which means that adjustments can be made on the machine almost in real time. The measurements indicate the visual quality of the printing (optical density, resolution, thickening, show through) and the paper’s machinability, with drying and set-off tests as confir-mation. a final, unique, feature of the i-SpeedJET is that it can assess ink behaviour on the paper surface just after printing in terms of spreading and penetration speed (between a few milliseconds and a few seconds). able to perform tests with all types of ink and over almost the entire range of droplet sizes (4-14pL) used by com-mercially available printers, the i-SpeedJET is the only machine that can provide so many results while accommodating future changes in print heads and inks. and all of this is done dynamically, at commercial speeds, thanks to a high-resolution photographic unit that also processes the images to show changes in ink behaviour with extreme precision.The i-SpeedJET has been widely used in work for the SIPPA project, by industries, for market studies and for predicting print quality (with the results being validated by printing on commercial ma-chines). It has enabled the CTP to build up an unrivalled data base on coating formulations in accordance with printing criteria.

Pierre Béranger

Paper Quality Director Papeteries de Clairefontaine

The CTP’s +…

The advice provided by the CTP team, on-site assistance and a few additional tests at Douai helped Clairefontaine in developing its fast inkjet papers. The CTP tests provide real scientific insights into paper performance as they are performed in stable, well-controlled conditions. By combining the results of these tests with those obtained by printers using these constantly evolving print technologies, Clairefontaine is able to choose the paper recipes and machine settings that offer the best compromise between quality, performance and cost.

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Biofilm, the biological film deposited by bacteria, interferes with industrial processes. Biocides are normally used to prevent or limit its formation. But they too have their disadvantages! The partners involved in the BioFImE project have been looking for alternative solutions with a low environmental impact in order to limit their usage.

Limiting biofilm… and the use of biocide!

christophe

NEyRET

The closure of water circuits in the paper-making industry results in a concentration of nutrients that encourages the formation of aerial or immersed biofilms. These cause a range of problems such as pipe clogging and corrosion, machine shut-downs and a decline in the quality of the finished product. usually they can only be controlled by wide-scale use of biocides – and this practice is on the increase. unfortunately, biocides by their very nature pose a risk for health and the environment. The aim of the aNr BioFImE project was to reduce biocide consumption by proposing alternatives that do not harm the environment and are compatible with the industrial process. BioFImE involved four research laboratories (LBE, B2Hm at the INra-agroParis-Tech, LISBP at the INSa in Toulouse and LBaE at the IuT in auch), a water treatment company (aquaprox), an industrial paper-making firm (Norske Skog golbey) and the CTP.

10% reduction in biocide consumptionTogether, we looked at the combined use of physical processes of the hydrodynamic type (detachment) and biochemical solutions (enzymes, natural antimicrobial agents and biosurfactants). Charac-terisation of biofilms collected from the Norske Skog golbey plant

revealed their morphological and microbiological diversity. It was then possible to identify the types of bacteria responsible depending on the flows involved and areas of the process where bacterial develop-ment was encouraged. The quantities of biocide could thus be reduced and optimised by more selective use. In fact, their use was stopped on the paper machine and increased on the DIP (de-inking process), leading to an overall saving of 10%, estimated to be worth €80k/year. It was also demonstrated that storage silos act as incubators and that the number of biological breakages can be reduced (up to 10%) by shortening the time pulp spends there. after screening complex biofilms generated using water taken from the plant, the best solu-tions were tested at pilot scale. These included bubble column reactors for immersed biofilms and an innovative pilot developed and vali-dated by the CTP for aerial biofilms (formed by aerosols from the machine). The CTP used this pilot to evaluate the efficiency of the anti-biofilm treatments in the laboratory and at an industrial site. Some of the most effective solutions tested during the project were natural antimicrobial agents such as Carvacrol and Thymol. The effi-ciency of these treatments could be improved further by combining them with hydrodynamic treatment to detach the upper layers of the biofilm. This tool is now available for paper-makers and biocide suppliers who wish to optimise and select the type of treatment they use.

armand Klem

r&D Projects manager Norske Skog golbey

The CTP’s +…

All the partners benefited from the CTP’s expertise in the microbiology of paper-making circuits. Through the sampling operations at NSG it was possible to define the most appropriate sampling points and methods together. The pilot installation created by the CTP enabled NSG and Aquaprox to test active substances in the best possible conditions.

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CTP research forums, 1 & 2 February. reser-

ved for CTP clients who have signed a CTP inno-

vation contract, these forums offer an opportu-

nity for discussion and interaction between CTP

scientists and industrialists. Presentation of

the results of the past year’s research projects

by our experts.

16th Mondial des Métiers, 2-5 February, Eu-

rexpo, Lyon. The CTP once again took part in

this major public trade fair alongside all the

players from the paper and board sector. The

2012 IUFRO Conference (International Union of

Forest Research Organizations), 8-13 July, Lisbon,

Portugal. The CTP was represented by Patrick Huber,

who gave a talk on the “Implementation of a hemicel-

luloses extraction stage in a kraft pulp mill for pro-

duction of papermaking chemicals: energy balance,

economics and life cycle assessment”.

COPACEL meeting, Grenoble, 31 August. The

Copacel board, chaired by mrs Boccon-gibod, met

at the CTP in grenoble. CTP director gilles Lenon

took advantage of the occasion to show the

TekLiCell day, 12 March. Visit by a delegation

from the regional Council. mr Bernard Soulage,

regional Vice-President, toured the platform’s

installations, which include the CTP’s chromoge-

nics pilot, financed with support from the ErDF

and rhône-alpes region.

Open day, 21 March, organised in the context

of the Industry Week. more than a hundred people

were able to discover the centre’s latest innovations.

Tissue World America, Florida (UsA), 21-23 March.

Fabienne Vercelli represented the CTP at this

55th anniversary of the CTP: 17 september.

Colour and good humour were the key notes of

this celebration. The programme of

festivities, with the emphasis laid

strongly on arT and CrEaTIVITY,

was an opportunity for celebrating

the CTP with its employees in an

original and colourful way.

CTP Board of Directors’ meeting,

26 september. The autumn mee-

ting of the CTP’s directors took place

Cepi Paper Week, 13-15 November, Brussels,

Belgium. gilles Lenon represented the CTP during

this event. With more than 330 participants this

is one of the most important European gatherings

of the paper and board industry, with the focus

being on research, innovation and the bio-economy.

Saurabh Kumar and Céline guézennec made an

impression and were rewarded for the quality of

their scientific presentations at the Early Stage

researchers Workshop: Innovation in Paper,

organised jointly by the EFPrO and CEPI.

20 years of Eco-Emballages, 4-5 December 2012.

Philippe ritzenthaler and alain Cochaux were

invited to the mutualité conference centre in Paris

along with more than 1000 members of the profession

to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Eco-Emballages.

Carnot meeting, 3-4 October, Lyon, with the

Carnot PolyNat Institute and rhône-alpes TekLiCell

technology platform on the arDI stand.

NaMiCell day, 4 October. The CTP and FCBa offi-

cially inaugurated the new NamiCell (Natural micro-

fibrillated Cellulose) pilot. Some 50 clients, pros-

pective clients and partners were able to take part

in lectures, guided tours and demonstrations, and

all of them were favourably impressed.

ADEME – 2012 sector and recycling conference,

23 October, Paris. alain Cochaux took part in this

2012 International Paper Physics sympo-

sium and 8th International Paper & Coating

Chemistry symposium, 10-14 June, stockholm,

sweden. Patrick Huber gave a talk on the CTP’s

behalf entitled “Specks masking by the coating

layer in coated paper made from deinked pulp”.

Erik Orsenna 12 June. The author gave a talk

at the CTP and dedicated his recently published

book “Sur la route du papier” (The Paper road).

The famous member of the académie Française

paid us the honour of discussing with CTP em-

PTS CTP Deinking Symposium, 24-26 april, mu-

nich, germany. Bruno Carré gave a talk during

the symposium on the “Detrimental effect of

DIP process water on flotation mechanisms:

possible solution”.

Copacel press conference, 11 January. The French

papermaking industry took stock of its economic

performance in Paris, as it does each year, for its

industrial clients, partners and the press.

fair attracted thousands of visitors in search of

information on jobs and training courses.

Pipame, 10 February, Paris. The CTP at-

tended the presentation of the study report on

“the current market for new wood-based pro-

ducts and developments by the year 2020”

produced by PIPamE, the inter-ministerial

group charged with forecasting and anticipa-

ting economic change, at the ministry in Paris.

The CTP’s president, Jérôme grassin, contri-

buted to the presentation, emphasising the op-

portunities offered by the CTP’s innovations for

the wood sector.

exhibition with Techpap and Technidyne, a must

for professionals from the tissue industry…

7th CTP/PTs symposium on Packaging De-

sign and Recycling, 28-29 March, Grenoble.

The symposium, which is organised at the CTP

every 2 years, was a great success. It attracted

around 50 participants concerned by this cru-

cially important issue for packaging.

at the Centre’s premises in grenoble. This provided

an opportunity to discover the Carnot PolyNat

Institute laboratories.

ACTRA seminar, 27-28 september. In the

framework of the regional network of Industrial

Technical Centres, gilles Lenon and Philippe

ritzenthaler took part in a think tank on future

developments. This was an opportunity to intro-

duce a common scale (TrL) for measuring

technological maturity.

day of reflection on “the circular economy: challenges

for regional development” and “household waste

sorting centres 10 years from now”.

65th ATIP Congress, 23-25 October, Lille. This

was the first time the aTIP congress had been

held in the Nord-Pas de Calais region. The leit-

motiv of the congress was “safety, a strategic

objective for companies”. Sharing a stand with

uNIDIS, the CTP presented the ways it supports

companies and helps to develop skills.

Bio-Economy conference, 12 December, Bercy,

Paris. The CTP’s Director general took part in a

one-day conference devoted to the bio-economy

organised by the CgaaEr (general Council for Food,

agriculture and rural areas). Topics ranged from

photosynthesis to industry and from innovation

to markets, all focused on possible, tangible

ways of promoting sustainable growth based in

particular on the use of renewable resources

from farming and forestry. The aim is to promote

the green economy in helping with growth.

41st Congress of the French Polymers Group -

GFP, 19-22 November, CTP, Grenoble. The congress

was organised by the Cermav/CNrS, in partnership

with the CTP. The lectures and poster sessions

attracted more than 180 people over the four

days of the event.

Packaging exhibition, 19-22 November, Paris.

The CTP was present on the uNIC stand alongside

organisations providing assistance to printers.

Paul Piette presented the Decarte project on the

maud cluster’s stand.

Tech’Innov, 16 February, Orly. Philippe

ritzenthaler represented the Carnot PolyNat

Institute in the context of Tech’Innov, which

took place at Orly last February. These business

meetings between industrialists and resear-

chers from all over Europe are now a must for

exchanging ideas and making contacts with a

view to implementing innovation projects.

ployees and students from grenoble INP-Pagora

during his visit.

LOPE - C, 20-21 June, Munich, Germany. 4th Inter-

national Exhibition and Conference for the

Organic and Printed Electronics Industry.

anastasia Delattre and guy Eymin Petot Tourtollet

attended this crucially important gathering of

the world’s printed electronics professionals.

Zellcheming General Meeting & Exhibition,

26-28 June, Wiesbaden, Germany. Valérie

meyer gave a talk on the “Influence of fibre

pre-treatments methods on NFC production at

Pilot scale”.

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and the centre’s latest innovation demonstrators.

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19Drupa. Dusseldorf, Germany, 3-16 May. The

largest international gathering of printers ful-

filled its promise! Paul Piette was there to take

stock of the latest innovations in the field of

printing technologies, the core activity of the

CTP’s Douai branch.

ATICELCA Annual Congress, 24-25 May,

ascoli Piceno, Italy. Jean ruiz gave a talk entitled

“Diagnosis tools for process optimisation and

quality control”.

innovation

These days, most paper/board food packaging is actually a combi-nation of paper/board, polymers derived from the petrochemical industry and sometimes aluminium. Increasing awareness of the environmental impact of packaging is stimulating research into ways of replacing synthetic polymers with biosourced ones. Could mFC be the best alternative? Interest in these microfibrils has grown considerably in recent years as they offer the natural advan-tages of cellulose as well as good barrier properties against grease and oxygen.

Winning combinationThe aim of the study is to determine the potential of mFC in developing new barrier papers and boards. However, using mFC alone in coating processes is still a real challenge owing to their low concentration (2%) and high viscosity, which lead to very light deposited layers and very high energy costs to dry them. This is why the solution involving mFC in association with a polyvinyl alcohol (PVa) matrix, which is already known to have barrier properties, was considered. With a hi-gher final concentration in the formula, thanks to direct baking of the PVa in the mFC suspension, the layer deposited on the board covers

the surface. For the first time, a combination of PVa and mFC was studied and deposited on a board at pilot scale. These tests produced homogeneous, scratch-free layers on the surface of the coated boards, thus demonstrating the feasibility and potential for using mFC in coa-ting processes. This work also showed the potential of mFC as a drying agent: it was indeed apparent that adding mFC reduced the number of defects and cockling phenomena and significantly improved the drying quality of the layers compared with PVa alone. Lastly, as PVa/mFC layers provide a good cover for boards, their barrier properties are all the more promising. These include low permeability to oxygen and steam, and good resistance to grease. Only the sensitivity of the PVa/mFC film to moisture still limits its use for packaging. To protect the film and ensure that the final packaging is water-resistant, a latex barrier was deposited as top layer.The study shows that with these two layers, board is a viable packa-ging solution. The properties obtained with this demonstrator are equivalent to those of existing materials on the market, while offering the advantages of being biodegradable and compostable.

1) microFibrils of Cellulose.

The European SUNPAP project aims to industrialise the use of cellulose microfibrils (MFC) in paper-making procedures. Since the project was launched in 2009, 23 partners have come together to study MFC from the production stage to application. One of the CTP’s roles is to study their potential in developing barrier layers.

MFC1, a new barrier!

anders Wigsten

research Director Stora Enso group r&D

The CTP’s +…

CTP added value to the SUNPAP project in several ways. CTP’s knowledge of MFC and the investment of pilot capacity to produce MFC were crucial for the success of the project. From Stora Enso’s point of view this cooperation in the area of MFC barriers on board was very innovative and useful.

céline

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innovation

Packaging is a fast-growing market eagerly looking for new materials based on renewable resources to promote its low impact on the environment. however, when they concern paper and board packaging, it is important for them to fit seamlessly into the value chain, since a large proportion of its economy is based on recycling. To address this, the CTP has integrated its paper-based packaging developments into a single Scientific Action Priority, entitled “Packaging of the Future”.

Do “bio-tiful” materials fit into the packaging value chain?

GuéRIN

The packaging market is experiencing profound and fast changes driven by economic, environmental, regulatory, social and technolo-gical forces. There is a strong demand from buyers for developing biosourced materials at an optimised cost with proper provision being made for their end of life. amongst the biosourced materials, paper and board represent a particularly interesting solution as cel-lulose is a low cost and abundant biomaterial that can be exploited without competing with food crops. However, while cellulose is attrac-tive from these points of view, paper and board packaging must attain the performance levels required by the market. While this is already the case in certain applications, in others, the barrier properties, mechanical properties in very damp environments and the necessity to develop always lighter materials can be very hard to achieve. The main players are therefore looking for new solutions in order to achieve the performance levels required by using new (nanostructured or bio-) materials or new technologies. These developments are beneficial both for primary packaging (consumer sales units such as bags,

wrapping, trays, etc., which are generally in direct contact with food or goods) and for secondary packaging (corrugated cardboard boxes, for example).

Minimising environmental impacts, lengthening life cyclesThis plethora of developments that can be found, sometimes driven by players outside the packaging field making of the renewability and performance, must not obscure the fact that these products have to comply with existing regulations and have to fit into the life cycle of paper and board packaging. This is the CTP’s concern in all its internal or customer projects to develop new packaging materials that perfectly meet the most relevant end of life requirements: recycling, organic, energy recovery.One example is the Nanomat project, which aims at developing a barrier layer for box board by taking advantage of the interesting properties of cellulose microfibrils. In this project, coated board is converted into box board to check the compliance of the development with the conver-ting steps (creasing, folding, gluing) and the end of life (recyclability, biodegradability) of packaging.another example is the Walter project, which aims to offer technically and economically viable alternatives to waxes and fluorinated pro-ducts. Its main goal is to develop solutions that can be used in the short term by CTP’s clients, paying careful attention both to the end of life of the proposed solutions compared to market references and to checking compliance with food contact requirements. The approach followed by the CTP in its packaging material pro-jects ensures that the developments made meet both the demands of the market and the specific requirements of the paper and board packaging value chain, the economy of which is based to a great extent on efficient collection, sorting and recycling of materials that have reached the end of their useful life.

Håkan Grubb

managing Director - Xylophane - Renewable barrier material for packaging

The CTP’s +…

We have used the CTP for dispersion pilot coating trials when coating our barrier material onto paper. CTP’s pilot coater is suitable for development work whilst being small enough to enable several trials without too high consumption of material and large enough to provide valuable process feedback. We have been able to make several valuable learnings when it comes to dispersion coating when using the CTP pilot coater.

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innovation

For some years now, electronic circuits have been developing on aty-pical media, notably plastics, textiles, glass and ceramics. and what about paper? at the CTP, the “Printing technologies and printability” STu is endeavouring to take up the challenge and it looks as if paper has more advantages than one might expect. The cellulose sheet can be used as a print medium but also as an active element in electronic components. For example via its matrix, structured and activated to receive different functional liquids. as the components can be inte-grated on either side of the sheet, it is possible to imagine complex circuits on several layers, as with silicon.The architecture is not the only complex aspect of this speciality. Indeed, it is no longer a question of judging their visual appearance, but of evaluating their ability to perform an electrical function as a conductor, insulant or sensor, etc.

Gold at their fingertipsIn order to meet economic and practical requirements (cost, use of existing machines, addressed products, etc.), it must be possible to print electronic circuits with industrial presses derived from graphical printing, in rolls or formatted and at high speed (in contrast with conventional electronics). The CTP’s goal is indeed to ensure that printers and processors are in a position to make these new products with their presses without making major modifications. Insofar as it is still a matter of depositing and superimposing flat layers of different inks, this challenge can be taken up! It is only the designs, shapes, printers and inks that change. The CTP’s engineers and researchers are well aware of the range of possibilities offered by paper and the different printing technologies… They seem to have gold at their fingertips! Industrial printing systems will be capable of applying functional ink in a controlled and reproducible manner at large scale and minimum cost. It will then be possible to manufacture real, marke-table products… or, rather, this is already happening. In 2012, the CTP worked on behalf of the CEa in the framework of a private contract, to develop a specific film for an electronic pillbox intended to be re-placed each week by each patient. Economic and environmental constraints worked in favour of paper! The CTP is in the process of creating the market for recyclable electronics thanks to this ancient material. What a privilege to be part of the adventure!

Like the sages, paper is old; like the young, it holds the promise of the future! Paper and board can offer new functions that were unthought of until quite recently… such as interacting with users. That is the challenge of developments in printed electronics being taken up by the CTP.

The birth of recyclable electronics!

alexandre Paléologue

DSIS Project manager CEa-LETI*

The CTP’s +…

The CTP provided a quick, effective technological answer to a complex problem in the context of an innovative project. In particular, the CTP quickly understood the technical difficulties we described and was instrumental in coming up with a technically credible solution in a very short space of time. This collaborative work meant we were able to produce an initial version of a multi-layer printed electronics demonstrator. But we haven’t finished yet. The measurements carried out at the CEA show that further improvements are possible and we are intending to pursue our investigations with the CTP in the very near future!

anastasia

dELATTRE

* CEA, the atomic Energy and alternative Energy Commission. LETI, the Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory.

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results

Pulp, Board an Paper RepresentativesJ. Grassin Chairman of the BoardP. Escaffre Ahlstrom Innovation ServicesL. Bonvalet UPM-Kymmene FranceA. Champarnaud Smurfit Kappa Paper Production TechnologyC. Jeauneau Vicat - Papeteries de VizilleA. Klem Norske Skog GolbeyA. Leturcq Stora Enso CorbehemH. Leydier Emin LeydierR. Ruppel Georgia-Pacific FranceD. Sens Tembec TartasP. Sombret Fibre ExcellenceJ.-M. Vau Antalis Arjowiggins Creative PapersF. Vessiere Vertaris

Trade Union RepresentativesP. Bauret CGTA. Deplanque FO “papier-carton”S. Marchand CGCJ.-J. Mazet CFDT

Representatives from Allied Industries, Universities and Research OrganisationC. Lecante TecknowmetricsJ.-P. Queré UnidisF. Rettmeyer AllimandA. Serres Kadant LamortD. Trutt Imprimerie nationale

Government CommissionersY. Robin Ministry P. Angot of Productive D. Basset Recovery

Government InspectorA. Rocca Ministry of Economy and Finances

AuditorP. Mesnard Experts & Partners

SubsidiaryCA TECHPAP SAS 2012 = €1,550kCS 90251 - 38044 Grenoble cedex 9Tel. +33 (0)4 76 51 74 75 - Fax +33 (0)4 76 42 05 04www.techpap.come-mail: techinfo@techpap.com

Board of Directors

ORGANISATION chart

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The number of active companies at the CTP… “active” means individual customers that have placed orders or asked for proposals during the year.

Man-days/pilot, i.e. the number of days our pilots were used during the year.

Gender parity. With 48% women and 52% men, the centre is nearly at parity.

CTP employees on 31/03/2013

semi-industrial pilots, taking our laboratory research projects to technological maturity at industrial stage (trl 2 to 8/9*).

The number of proposals recorded using selligent (the CTP’s CrM) for industrial and prospective customers

Managing Director gilles Lenon

Packaging Eco-Design and Recyclingalain Cochaux

sustainability: Water, Air, EnergyFrédéric guillet

Certification, Hygiene, Food-contact, Healthmatthieu Schelcher

Performances, Quality, standardisation of Papers & BoardsSylvie moreau-Tabiche

sensors - Modelling and Data Processingguy Eymin Petot Tourtollet

Administrative and Financial DirectorPerrine Demengeon

CommunicationSandrine Pappini

DocumentationCoralie Lefevre

Computing Networksmartine Favialfredo guembes-Dileo

Technical sectionJean-Luc guillouty

Human ResourcesCorinne Bardou Quality & safetymichèle Bouclier The number of proposals

accepted, with orders ranging from €41 to €710,600! … giving a respectable average of €6,975.

National and european public projects active in 2012

Gross Operating surplus (percentage)

The CTP’s turnover in 2012 in millions of euros!

102

scientific staff (technicians and managers).

INCLUDING

32%

39%

8.3

earmarked for collective research.

industrial and research-related contracts.

million euros in research and development.

I.E.

3.4million euros in consultancy, expertise and laboratory services.

AND

WhAT WERE ThE IMPORTANT figures in 2012?Today’s society loves figures. They can be used to prove almost anything! But rather than just collect them, it is much better to analyse them. In 2012, the CTP chose to modernise its management resources: Crm, ErP, project management. It is in the details that we can find the answers to our questions. “What value do we create for customers?” “What must we improve to more effectively prepare for the future?”

Process-Pulps & Functional Fibresmichel Petit-Conil

Deinking ProcessesBenjamin Fabry

Deinking Pulps, Wet-end ChemistryBruno Carré

Nanotechnologies, Functional surfacesDavid guérin

Printing Technologies and PrintabilityPaul Piette

* See pages 6 and 7.

DirectorVéronique morin

Assistant DirectorFrançois Julien Saint-amand

INDUsTRIALsITEs Director Philippe ritzenthaler

CONsULTANCy\ DIAGNOsIs\ sERVICEs

REsEARCH & INNOVATION

INDUsTRIAL GROUPs Director Fabienne Vercelli

Directorandré Lemaître

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7 800 Contrats de recherche par an avec

les entreprises pour un montant de 350 M€

50% de la R&D financée par des entre-

prises à la recherche française

19 000 professionnels de recherche

7 000 doctorants

2 000 M€ de budget consolidé annuel

15% des effectifs de la recherche public

Le réseau Carnot est animé par l’association

des instituts Carnot (Ai Carnot). Pour plus

d’informations, consultez le site web de l’Ai

Carnot : http://www.instituts-carnot.eu/

Chiffres clés 2011

Alliance

chimie durable

Le réseau Carnot

17 M€ Budget consolidé

260 Chercheurs, Ingénieurs, Post-doc

(dont 70 Doctorants)

145 Publication de rang A

180 Brevets en portefeuille

10 M€ Recherche partenariale

60 Contrats de recherche directs avec

les entreprises

Répartition des recettes partenariales

Le chiffre d’affaire consolidé de recherche partenariale

2011 de PolyNat est issu de quatre types d’activités:

La recherche partenariale ou recherche contractuelle

avec le monde socio-économique composée des

activités de recherche menées en partenariat avec les

acteurs du monde socio-économique en réponse à un

besoin exprimé par ces derniers.

La recherche partenariale hors assiette ou recherche

collaborative subventionnée avec le monde socio-

économique effectuée sur la base de contrats de

recherche subventionnés par les pouvoirs publics

qui impliquent un ou plusieurs partenaires socio-

économiques.

La recherche collaborative repré-

sentée par les projets de recherche

suventionnés par les pouvoirs pu-

blics (États, Union Européenne, or-

ganismes internationaux, agences

nationales, etc.) qui n’implique pas

de partenaires socio-économiques.

Les contrats de prestations compo-

sée par des prestations techniques

hors du domaine de la recherche.

Recherche

partenariale2,8

Recherche

partenariale

hors assiette

7,1Contrats de

prestation3,6

Recherche

collaborative

2,5

Montant en M€

Répartition des recettes issues de la recherche contractuelle par taille des entreprises

14%

38%

13%

35%

Nombre d'entreprises Grandes entreprises

nationales (8)

ETI nationales (20)

PME / TPE nationales (9)

Etrangères incluant

grandes entreprises, ETI,

PME/TPE (20)

Grandes

entreprises

nationales651

ETI

nationales

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PME / TPE

nationales

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Etrangères

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grandes

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ETI,

PME/TPE)

1266

Montant en k€

En 2011, l’institut Carnot PolyNat s’est

engagé avec quatre autres instituts

(3BCAR, CED2, ICEEL et LISA) dans

l’Alliance Carnot : « Chimie durable »,

dont l’objectif est de participer à la

construction et à la promotion d’une

vision commune de ce domaine.

Au sein des alliances, les instituts

Carnot mènent des projets communs

pour lever les difficultés (verrous

technologiques) et être en capacité de

proposer des solutions R&D répondant

aux besoins des entreprises.

20102011

Evolution %Objectif mi-parcours

2214,942839,311

+28%2514,18 (+ 15 %)

Recettes contractuelles (k€)

research partnership

anniversary

COLOUR AND GOOD hUMOUR WERE ThE kEy NOTES OF ThE ANNIvERSARy.

WITh A STRONG EMPhASIS ON ART AND CREATIvITy, ThE PROGRAMME

OF CELEBRATIONS PROvIDED AN OPPORTUNITy FOR:

the CTP celebrates its 55th anniversarywith its employees!

≥ inaugurating an exhibition of works by three reputed artists, all former CTP employees and now painters and sculptors……

• Nizam-Güner, internationally famous bronze sculptor, Chevalier de l’Ordre du mérite National for services rendered to art and sculpture.

• Michel Lavail, a visual artist working in sculpture, collage, architectural drawing, etc., “Deconstructing to construct”.

• Jean-Jacques Mazet (madia), who created a series of paintings on pulp sheets specially for the occasion. These paintings were exhibited for three months on the company’s walls, an original initiative that brought art into the heart of a research centre.

≥ presenting the latest book published by Glénat

La Papet’: 150 years of history of the Lancey paper mill which contains information provided by the CTP and was presented to its employees during the day in the presence of the author (Cécile gouy-gilbert), photographer (Bernard méric) and publishers glénat (aurore Lebaigue).

≥ sharing a giant picnic together

on the campus lawns and blowing out 55 candles! ≥ taking part in the creation

of an ephemeral work: employees were able to enjoy being children again, leaving their handprints in an explosion of colours.

Make a note now of the Centre’s 60th anniversary … in 2017!

The scientific resourcing of the Carnot PolyNat Institute enables new knowledge to be generated and new concepts to be validated, the aim being to make it easier for industries that are now focusing their attention on the bioeconomy to become involved in collaborative programmes or direct partnerships. Five resourcing actions were funded by PolyNat in 2012 out of a total of 17 subjects proposed. Each project, which is carried out collaboratively by two partners from the Institute, corresponds to one of PolyNat’s five scientific challenges.

Exploit the heterogeneous nature of the raw material at nano and microscopic scale

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master and transform the properties of biosourced products

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master the auto-assembly and nano-organisation of natural glycopolymers

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Eco-processes, proof of the industrial concept at pilot scale

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master the properties of nanocrystals and cellulose microfibrils

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Carnot PolyNat* Institute… an alliance at the service of Bioeconomics!

Visiting ComitteeThe Carnot PolyNat Institute’s Visiting Committee provides a critical assessment of the Institute’s position and industrial strategy and helps to formulate a clearer forward vision by bringing together per-sonalities from industry (major healthcare, cosmetics, chemicals and

electronics firms) and supervisory organisations. The first PolyNat Visiting Committee took place in November 2012. The experts present said they were perfectly comfortable with the Carnot PolyNat Institute’s guidelines and advised it to pursue this course of action by encouraging high-risk resourcing subjects, i.e. those whose results are not yet sufficiently advanced to attract support from industry.

The sustainable chemistry allianceThis alliance combines French laboratories from 5 Carnot Institutes that are leaders in the field: 3BCar - CED2 - ICEEL - LISa – PolyNat, with a view to developing eco-compatible chemicals and materials. To be able to innovate and reach new markets, the alliance boasts a taskforce of 1100 professional researchers and offers firms skills in 4 specific areas: Eco-design and recycling, renewable raw materials, Chemistry and eco-compatible processes, use of biosourced materials.

2012 figures• 260 researchers, engineers and post-docs

(including 80 doctoral students)• 142 a-rank publications • a portfolio of 201 patents• 60 direct research contracts with companies

GFP conference180 people gathered in grenoble from 19 to 22 November 2012 on the occasion of the 41st national conference held by the groupe Français des Polymères. The event was organised by the Cermav in partnership with the CNrS and Carnot PolyNat Institute. It provided an opportunity to take stock of major scientific progress in the field of bio)sourced polymers for many different sectors of application (healthcare, electronics and high value-added nanomaterials).

*PolyNat : Cermav-Cnrs ; CTP; LgP2-umr5518 ; LrP-umr5520, 3Sr-umr5521.

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