Circular economy

The paper addresses a poorly documented issue in the literature, namely the role of clusters in green transformation, including processes related to green, low-carbon, and circular economies. The purpose was to identify and understand the practices of clusters in this area. The adopted mixed...

RE-CENTRE project supports SMEs from the three sectors involved ( traditional furniture and living sector, IT sector, and green/circular economy sector) in the development of innovation projects and new business models to become more competitive and resilient trough collaboration. The general...

The Catalan Waste Agency regularly calls for a public funding package to support the sustainable transition of the Catalan territory This year's budget amounts to 1.3 million euros The Packaging Cluster, which has been participating in this initiative since 2016, submitted 4 proposals in February In...

The project involves 6 companies from different parts of the packaging industry value chain, under the coordination of the Packaging Cluster, BertIA, Industrias Plásticas Triana, KUKA, Molmasa, Tepsis and VM Systems The objective of this collaborative initiative is the development of a system that...

Poliapig is a project that investigates in a circular economy approach that links the wine industry with pig farming sector. Grape pomace contains grape skins, seeds and stems, which are left over once the grapes have been pressed and used after wine production. It takes about 1,5 kilograms of...

Companies from the agri-food and packaging sector ―Ametller Origen, Delafruit, Coberagelab, Samtack and Gráficas Salaet―, business links such as the Zona Franca Consortium and Mercabarna, a research center of the UdG and IRTA, join forces in the Foodwaste project for Foodpack, which promotes and...

The recent tetrabrik Reprint Reprint project will allow the reuse of obsolete printed reels, reducing waste generated by production errors or other needs to update graphic information. The Girona-based company IFLEX has carried out modifications to the machinery in order to offer the reprint service...

The second session of the EiA series of conferences on entrepreneurship and innovation to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals is coming up. The session will be held on June 28, 14:00 - 15:00 GMT. The topic for the session is innovation and entrepreneurship driven by needs...

We finished our mission to #NewYork and #Ithaca and it has been very satisfying the result of this intense visit. This is a resume of what our week consisted on: First, we visited the Circular City Week New York. From Monday to Wednesday we visited several side events in the context of this...

The SmartCommunities Conference is the Italian event dedicated to the promotion of the best innovation solutions for more resilient and intelligent communities. On its second edition it will be focused on the topic Future and Sustainable Communities, and will present solutions, project and ideas...

On February the 3rd, the whole FASCINATE consortia celebrated its Final Conference, the last public event of the project, to share with all the identified stakeholders the activities conducted during the last 18 months, and also to share the results outlined within an ambitious Internationalization...

The Eurecat Technological Center, Industrias Plásticas Triana and the Packaging Cluster finalize the BIO-ENV project to offer a new circular packaging solution A collaborative project that will allow IP Triana's business to be versatile with innovative and more sustainable products The BIO-ENV...