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The Packaging Cluster presents 4 projects to support the circular economy in the ARC programme

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...
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PETinject researches industrial technologies to manufacture PET packaging from recycled material

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...
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THE LINK BETWEEN GRAPE WASTE AND PIGS HEALTH

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...

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Waste from the agri-food industry will be the raw material for compostable packaging thanks to a new project

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...
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IFLEX promotes an innovative reprint service in Catalonia with the aim of boosting the circular economy

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...
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Entrepreneurship and innovation to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs. 2nd session of the series

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...
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ET4S mission to New York and Ithaca on Circular Economy and Sustainability

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...

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SmartCommunities Conference 2022 - 10/06/2022: Call4Speakers is OPEN!

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...
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The FASCINATE Final Conference has sucessfully showcased the project results and future steps

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...
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The project for the incorporation of bioplastics in the manufacturing chain of the IP Triana company ends

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...
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5 keys to promote talent in the company

The work model in which we are immersed is rebuilt as society acquires new habits and the adaptation process speeds up or slows down depending on the profile of each professional and their proactivity in the face of transformations. A clear example that we have all seen recently is the case of...
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Catalonia stands as a hub for the promotion of the circular economy

In the last call for grants from the Agència de Residus de Catalunya, to promote the circular economy, the Packaging Cluster managed to draw 7 initiatives out of the 8 proposals The 16 changemakers involved will be in charge of generating good practices that can be replicated in other territories...