FIMP (2023-2024)

• Focusion work on sustainable development and eco-design via printable solutions to replace plastic on recyclable single-material bases
• Proposing a support programme for all players in the Hauts-de-France region
• Positioning / repositioning local players in the future regional industries such as electric vehicles

Aim of the project

Drawing on the success of the EIPIT1 and EIPIT2 projects, with certain products already on the market, a patent registered, prizes obtained for project partners thanks to their innovations such as the CITEO Circular Challenge or LeadExport CCI Hauts-de-France - 2 partners even being prize-winners of the France Relance 2030 plan for investments connected with project developments - the FIMP project aims to continue developing new areas of growth for printers and converters in the Hauts-de-France region. Thanks to printed electronics and functional printing, companies are developing innovative, sustainable printed solutions. These technologies offer new prospects in a sector that is being forced to renew and differentiate itself in order to remain competitive and survive in a difficult context. The aim is to assist companies – ranging from small firms to large industrial groups – as they negotiate this industrial transition. In addition to its impact on actual activity (in terms of turnover and jobs), the FIMP project is making Hauts-de France the benchmark region in the field of functional printing, in particular by strengthening the Imprim’lab innovation division and its pilots, which are unique in Europe.

FIMP = Functionalizing by printing.

The FIMP project has three aims :

• Focusing work on sustainable development and eco-design via printable solutions to replace plastic on recyclable single-material bases. This is a field offering real opportunities, especially following publication of the European single-use plastics directive (SUPD), applied in France via the AGEC law and 3R decree.
• Proposing a support programme for all players in the Hauts-de-France region. The previous programme was only available in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, but now this is to be extended to Picardy as well.
• Positioning/repositioning local players in future regional industries such as electric vehicles. Indeed, paper electronics may offer solutions for this new sector of industry enjoying rapid development in the Hauts-deFrance region. For example, it would enable vehicle weight to be reduced by replacing objects on rigid PCB electronic cards with flexible media.