Decarbonising coating in manufacturing

我们买的每一样东西都涂上了涂层或油漆。汽车、家具、地板、软饮料罐都被涂上了涂层。通常使用多层油漆，并通常使用喷漆器。喷漆是一种惊人的浪费。通常只有一半的喷漆落在预定的目标上。另一半飞向空中。工业涂料公司通常将这些废油漆收集到过滤器中并焚烧。当你把所有的垃圾加在一起时，它是巨大的。全球每年约有300万吨涂料被浪费。当装满油漆的过滤器被焚烧时，这导致每年产生超过3000万吨二氧化碳。这约占英国全年二氧化碳排放量的9%。Archipelago的PowerDrop技术解决了这个问题。它放下油漆，使每一滴都落在它应该落到的地方，并留在那里。因为没有浪费，只需要一半的油漆。它对涂料工业来说更便宜，对环境也更好。阿联酋已经做出了完全可操作的示范，在中试规模上证明了这项技术。在这个分两个阶段的项目中，我们计划扩大规模，并开始向英国和国际上的行业推广这项技术。

Everything we buy is coated or painted. Cars, furniture, flooring, soft drink cans are all coated. Usually with many layers of paint and usually using a paint sprayer. Paint spraying is surprisingly wasteful. Typically only half the paint sprayed lands on the intended target. The other half goes into the air. Industrial coatings companies normally collect this waste paint in filters and burn them. When you add up all the waste it is huge. Some 3 million tonnes of coating are wasted world-wide every year. This results in over 30 million tonnes of CO2 generation per year, when the paint-laden filters are incinerated. That's about 9% of the UK's entire annual CO2 output. Archipelago's Powerdrop technology solves this problem. It puts down paint so that every drop lands where it is meant to and stays there. Because there is no waste, only half the paint is needed. Its cheaper for the coating industry and much better for the environment. Archipelago has made fully operational demonstrators that prove the technology at pilot scale. In this two-phase project, we plan to scale up and begin to roll out the technology to industries both in the UK and internationally.