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The Safe Smart Food project will create a reference e-book on the main trends in Foodservice and Packaging

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The European Safe Smart Food project consortium aims to carry out activities to develop and improve the skills of consortium members to strengthen excellence in cluster management The Safe Smart Food (SSF) project wants to create a reference e-book at European level on the main trends in foodservice and packaging. The creation of this e-book is part of the main tasks of the working group led by the Cluster Foodservice of Catalonia. This interactive document that will include videos, text and a space to comment and debate will be presented in June 2021 . We seek to develop a training and learning program...
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  • Jan 18, 2021
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The Packaging Cluster begins the year 2021 with a new incorporation, adding a total of 6 professionals to its work team

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Pol Marin Ruz will be in charge of supporting the management of ongoing research and innovation projects, as well as the strategic activities that position the cluster as the leading entity in the packaging sector at a national and international level. As we already announced in the last post , after the incorporation of Carlos Jiménez, we welcome Pol Marin Ruz , the new Project Manager of the Packaging Cluster, who will help us manage ongoing research and innovation projects and all those activities that are strategic key for the entity. Pol Marin Ruz is a young professional, proactive and entrepreneurial...
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  • Jan 18, 2021
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The cluster team grows to offer new services to its members

Packaging Cluster
The Packaging Cluster has incorporated a specialist in circular economy projects to boost the impact of the initiatives developed with member companies and stakeholders in the industry In the last year, the Packaging Cluster has grown exponentially as a result of the changes that have occurred in the immediate environment and in the global context, in addition to transforming its strategy to addapt services to the new reality. As a result, more than 100 key members of the entire value chain of the packaging sector, an activities plan with more than 60 technical and innovation seminars for its associates, 14...
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  • Dec 22, 2020
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New services programme derived from a 5-year partnership strategy

Packaging Cluster
The Safe Smart Food consortium aims to provide new and better services to the members of all five clusters During the last months, the Safe Smart Food team has been working on analysing the food and packaging value chains and their ecosystems in all the countries involved (Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Spain) and finding common challenges and opportunities, to elaborate a 5-year common strategy with the main objective of developing common and complementary activities at European level exploiting common synergies and resources . In a first stage, clusters defined their own Key Success Factors (KSF) that...
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  • Dec 17, 2020
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A 50% of the products will be biodegradable by 2025

Packaging Cluster
IP Triana and Eurecat complete the search for biodegradable polymers compatible with Triana's products The problem that exists with plastic waste is more than evident. There are several studies that show that poorly managed plastic is a serious problem: plastic islands in different geographical locations, percentage of plastic waste in the sea (more than 50% of waste in the sea is single-use plastic), microplastics of different origins, etc. This fact has generated a negative view of plastic. This concern is present in the new legislative framework in which the packaging sector finds itself and it is that...
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  • Dec 17, 2020
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Collaboration between clusters responds to the challenges in new materials for the manufacture of packaging

Packaging Cluster
The Advanced Materials Cluster and the Packaging Cluster came together on December 14 to offer a webinar with transversal knowledge, as a vehicle to open the mind to new value proposals for the packaging industry and advanced materials. Currently, the existing offer of advanced materials for packaging is very wide and we see how companies in the sector are investing on R&D to be at the forefront of innovation in this area. The aim is to obtain new properties and characteristics that make the packaging more sustainable so that it has a place in the circular model paradigm, using the new technologies and...
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  • Dec 17, 2020
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The Packaging Cluster and the Beauty Cluster jointly analyze the trends in cosmetic packaging that we will see in 2021

Packaging Cluster
The Beauty and Personal Care sector demands annually, according to 2019 data, more than 151 billion packaging units , positioning itself as a key industry for the entire packaging value chain, only surpassed by the field of food and beverages. That is why the Packaging Cluster considered essential to study the future of this market niche as part of the market share of its associates. In the talk on December 9, the Beauty Cluster and the Packaging Cluster shared cross-cutting knowledge about the trends in cosmetic packaging that we will see in 2021. Collaboration between various fields of action is key to...
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  • Dec 15, 2020
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Europe focuses on protecting its environment during the European Week for Waste Reduction

Packaging Cluster
The Packaging Cluster joins the European Week for Waste Reduction with 4 training sessions in the field of recycling. The workshops have tried to bring together and promote knowledge for the correct management of waste and its circularity. One of the Packaging Cluster 's goals is to promote a new paradigm of coexistence, in which sustainability is applied to all aspects of work of the entity's member companies, as well as the environment that frames them. That is why, the cluster has joined again the European initiative where for one week, from November 21 to 29 , different actions have been carried out to...
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  • Dec 01, 2020
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Interactive online tools for creative sessions that cannot be done on-site

Packaging Cluster
The Safe Smart Food partnership had to decide the guidelines of the common strategy within an online workshop, which was a great success! The SAFE SMART FOOD Excellence Program is part of the ESCP partnerships, that have been launched by the European Commission to encourage clusters from Europe to intensify collaboration across regions and sectors. These partnerships are expected to work together on joint strategies, specifically in the case of the Excellence call, to support the development of cluster management excellence and strengthen cross-regional collaboration between industrial clusters . To do so,...
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  • Nov 25, 2020
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The Strategic Dive 2020 was a disruptive intercluster space with live presentations and more than a hundred B2B meetings, among the more than 400 registered professionals

Packaging Cluster
On the second day of the Strategic Dive, the current trends of the sectors of each of the organizing clusters of the event, the Clúster de l'Energia Eficient de Catalunya (CEEC), the Foodservice Cluster, the Cluster of the Catalan wine sector INNOVI and the Packaging Cluster were discussed. The transversal axes that will determine the future of the companies that make up the four clusters will be sustainability and collaboration. The second day of Strategic Dive 2020 , a virtual intercluster meeting, offered four parallel sessions on current trends in the sectors of each of the event's organizing clusters:...
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  • Nov 25, 2020
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