PROJECTS
Projects where Oldtrading is a partner.

The TexBoost - less Commodities more Specialties mobilizing project is a structuring project of the Textile Cluster: Technology and Fashion, which aims to include a set of R&D initiatives with a strong collective character and high inductor and demonstrator effect, with the central involvement of companies of the textile and clothing sector, but also of other complementary sectors of the economy.
The TexBoost development consortium, led by RIOPELE and under the technical coordination of CITEVE, involves a total of 43 entities, of which 23 are industrial companies of the entire textile industry and 15 are Non-corporate Entities of the Research & Innovation System.
TexBoost represents a total investment of 9,229,676.60 euros, corresponding to a financing rate of 68.96% by the Compete 2020 program, and is organized into 6 PPS - Products, Processes and Services (one of which is management, dissemination and exploitation of results), built on 50 activities, resulting in 17 new innovative solutions in different areas.
Started on July 1st, 2017 and scheduled to end on June 30rd, 2020, the project has the following main activities:
• to develop a new generation of textile solutions, where their degree of innovation is radical compared to existing products, including the generation of new scientific knowledge;
• to develop highly innovative products and processes using emerging and cutting-edge technologies that will allow new experiences for consumers and companies participating in each PPS;
• facilitate access by the companies involved to new markets / business areas or reinforcement of current markets / business areas, both nationally and internationally.
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The HYDROMASK
project – consists on the development of a mask with saturation warning
signals. It’s a project resulting from supporting measures of the state to help
the economy in the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic situation, which
the objective is developing a facial PPE that allows the user to identify visually
the mask saturation and possible impairment of its efficiency, thus
contributing to the active fight against spreading the virus in the community.
It’s a
Co-Promotion project, whose consortium is composed of two entities - OLDTRADING
(business entity) and CeNTI (entity in the D&I system) - whose values are
complementary in order to take advantage of the skills of both, regarding the
development of new solutions characterized by innovation. OLDTRADING, the
leading promoter of this project, with an extensive knowledge of the production
of seamless textile structures and CeNTI, contributing with its proven know-how
in the processing of textile fibers, as well as in surface coatings.
The project
consists of a consortium between Oldtrading, the promoter company, and CeNTI,
with a total investment of 144 252.26 euros and is co-financed by Portugal
2020, under the Northern Regional Operational Program (North 2020) and the
European Regional Development Fund with a global
support of 115,401.81 euros.
It started on
July 1, 2020 and is programmed to end on December 31, 2020, the aim is to
obtain an innovative face protection mask with added warning signals
properties, which will contribute to greater effectiveness in terms of
community safety, reinforcing the fight against COVID-19.
All the detailed
information of the project is on the following website: https://www.centi.pt/en/projects/health-wellbeing/hydromask-en

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MasProCov - Protection Masks against COVID-19
Project Code | NORTE-02-08B9-FEDER-048509
Main Goal OT 3 - Strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs
Intervention Region | NORTH
Beneficiary Entity | OLDTRADING, LDA
Approval Date | 09-09-2020
Start Date | 10-09-2020
Conclusion Date | 09-03-2021
Total Eligible Cost | 342.760,0 EUR
Financial Support from European Union | FEDER – 274.208,0 EUR
Goal:
Implementation of a new production line of level 2 and level 3 community protection masks to support the fight against COVID-19.