R+D+i projects

CONSORTIUM: Food & Bio Cluster Denmark, FOOD+i, Foodvalley NL, VITAGORA, Flanders’ FOOD, ITC - Innovation Technology Cluster Murska Sobota, Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The objective of the project has been to promote the sustainable transition of the food system worldwide through collaboration and innovation. GLOBAL FOODTURE will develop and implement a joint internationalization strategy that facilitates access to third countries for SMEs. This joint strategy will help SMEs to access new markets and generate higher sales, improve their international positioning and help them find the best future cooperation partners. In short, GLOBAL FOODTURE will strengthen the capacities of the participants to adapt to the challenges of food sustainability, putting the European industry in the driver's seat to lead the transitions towards climate neutrality.

BUDGET: € 549,773.00

CALL: COS-CLUSINT-2020-3-01 (Clusters Go International)

Project in collaboration with Eatable Adventures that aims to define the bases of a Catalan food startup program promoted and managed by the food clusters of Catalonia that includes training and support services for companies and that lead to innovative pilot projects that affect different points of the value chain. In this way, new business and market opportunities and new models can be created. This entrepreneurial project consists of 3 phases.

- The 1: FoodStart.CAT

CONSORTIUM: Innovacc; Gourmet Cluster, Innovi

BUDGET: 35,079.33 €

CALL: Initiatives to strengthen competitiveness. EMC/2501/2020. Agency for the competitiveness of the company ACCIÓ

- The 2: FoodStart.CAT II

CONSORTIUM: Foodservice Cluster; Cluster Packaging; innovation; Gourmet Cluster; I innovated

BUDGET: 71,463.14 €

CALL: Initiatives to strengthen competitiveness. EMT/1978/2021. Agency for the competitiveness of the company ACCIÓ.

CONSORTIUM: Packaging Cluster, CWP, Iflex, Matrix, AIS Vision, TAI, Cart Service, Disbeint, ITC

DESCRIPTION: The main objective of this pilot test is to be able to accompany industrial companies, mainly in the container and packaging and water sectors, to better develop a digital Marketing plan, which will allow them to open new channels of connection with client companies. Also, the participation of a wide variety of industrial companies will allow them to get to know each other, different realities and how each one of them faces. Thanks to carrying out the project in a collaborative way, it will also allow the connection between the Marketing departments of the different companies and search for possible ways of collaboration between them and even share experiences that can serve as an example for others. serve as an example for others.

BUDGET:  €47,748.66

CALL: IRC 2021

CONSORCIO: INNOVI, Masia Vallformosa, DIFMAQ, TAI SMART y Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPCIÓN: The project has had the objective of determining in a conceptual and physical way (hardware and software, communicative interaction between equipment and systems, etc.), how all the different types of machines that DIFMAQ can manufacture should be prepared, for the different levels of Industry. 4.0 that production and packaging companies may require based on their strategic needs (business, industry, markets, etc.). That is why an expert company in these systems accompanies us in the project to participate in said definition: TAI Smart Factory.
Industry 4.0 levels. Source: Difmaq
Vallformosa will validate the framework of needs defined a priori for each level. This will be the starting point: the definition of the requirements or expectations of the end customer.

PRESUPUESTO: 185.133,48€

CONVOCATORIA: Agrupaciones Empresariales Innovadoras (AEI) del Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo. Convocatoria marzo, 2021.

CONSORTIUM: Inka Palet, Oiko design and Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: Introduce a new product in its current catalog of eco pallets. Specifically, a sustainable solution for the point of sale formed by a set of mixed recycled plastic pallets and cardboard boxes, ideal for the agri-food sector and large distribution.

BUDGET: €50,770.00

CALL: Projects to promote the circular economy TES/3250/2020. Waste Agency of Catalonia.

CONSORTIUM: IFLEX and Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: Project to make modifications on the rotary machine to be able to reprint tetrabrik containers and offer a reuse service of obsolete tetrabrick reels. The aim of the project is to be able to provide the service of making modifications on tetrabriks already printed to make variations on the barcode, ingredients, weight or other elements.

BUDGET: € 26,294.74

CALL: Projects to promote the circular economy TES / 3250/2020. Catalan Waste Agency.

CONSORTIUM: Embutidos Monells, IRTA, EnPlater, Multivac and Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The project aims to develop recyclable thermoformable flexible monomaterials for the vacuum preservation of cooked meat products in different formats (sliced, taco and whole piece) that enable the shift towards a resource-efficient circular economy. The application of eco-design will allow the implementation of new packaging on the market that can be recovered when it becomes waste and, therefore, close its life cycle.

BUDGET: € 100,201.98

CALL: Projects to promote the circular economy TES / 3250/2020. Waste Agency of Catalonia.

CONSORTIUM: Delafruit, Leitat and Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The objective of the project is to carry out the necessary studies to implement mono-material pouch solutions in the food industry, specifically in the pasteurized fruit juice and puree sector.

BUDGET: €100,800

CALL: Projects to promote the circular economy TES/3250/2020. Waste Agency of Catalonia.

CONSORTION: ABACUS, KID'S CLUSTER, SENITEL, TEB Cooperative Group, CARINSA and Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The project consortium seeks to create a plume-shaped mask aromatizer, to prevent the spread of the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus. The main objective is to increase the success of the launch of flavored products involving the entire value chain, mitigating digital tools that will help the connectivity of each lute, from the design of the final product to the final product, through smart manufacturing. intelligent and distribution.

BUDGET: €237,831.78

CALL: Innovative Business Groups (AEI) of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism. Call March, 2021.

CONSORTIUM: Saica Pack, Balfegó, Inédito, Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The aim of the project is to develop an innovative ecodesign of a box based on recycled and recyclable cardboard in the SaicaPack operating plant of Amposta, Tarragona, which is suitable for high-end frozen fish that can replace the current plastic boxes of expanded polystyrene (EPS). This new eco-designed box must have great features to be able to meet the strict requirements of the logistics of high-end fish.

BUDGET: € 74,160.73

CALL: Projects to promote the circular economy TES / 3250/2020. Catalan Waste Agency.

CONSORTIUM: Packaging Cluster, AEI TExtils, Leitat

DESCRIPTION: TEXTSOSPACK is a multisectoral study to collect and analyze the best practices in sustainable industrial textile packaging. Companies from both sectors participate and collaboration is encouraged to innovate in circular packaging systems for the industrial use of textiles.

BUDGET: € 33,281.98

CALL: Projects to promote the circular economy TES / 3250/2020. Catalan Waste Agency.

Consortium: Packaging Cluster, Foodservice Cluster, Inedit

Description: The CIRCULAR PACK project is a collaborative initiative between the Foodservice Cluster and the Packaging Cluster to create a sectorial Decalogue of food packaging in the context of Circular Economy and Ecodesign that supports companies that are part of the value chain of food packaging, including packaging manufacturers, packers, distributors, restaurateurs and recyclers, to overcome the challenges and seize the opportunities that circularity offers.

Budget: 34.512,10€

Call: Projects to promote the circular economy TES / 3250/2020. Catalan Waste Agency.

Consortium: Industrias Plásticas Triana, Go Fruselva, DríadeSM and Packaging Cluster

Budget:  € 17.317,06 

Call: Competitiveness strengthening initiatives. EMC / 1808/2020. ACCIÓ

Year: 2020

Description: This project aims to help associated companies know the real recyclability of their packaging through an exhaustive analysis, promoting the circular economy. Pilot test with different companies from different sectors to analyze the recyclability of their packaging, so that a truthful and transparent communication can be carried out in this matter, promoting knowledge through a database that promotes more and better sustainable and recyclable packaging.

Consortium: 3D Click, Cooking Communication and Packaging Cluster

Budget: 93.880,50 €

Call: Iniciatives de reforç de la competitivitat per a la consolidació d'estructures clúster. EMC/1808/2020. ACCIÓ 

Year: 2020

Description: Development of a solid and viable alternative for the sector, generating a stable virtual Marketplace and fair, where companies can digitize their content, can interact with other professionals and organizations around the world, and where the cluster can generate specialized content of innovation in form of digital congresses throughout the year.

Consortium: Clúster Food+i, Idiogram, Iberfruta and Packaging Cluster

Budget: 52.400 €

Call: Agrupación Empresarial Innovadora. May, 2020. Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo. 

Year: 2020

Description: The purpose is to generate a tool to manage the current and future information needs of both sectors, international opportunities or possible threats in the business of the companies in the clusters, thus building an adapted, contrasted and analyzed strategy thanks to big data, data mining, semantic surveillance and data analysis.

Consortium: Clúster Alimentario de Galicia, Eurecat, IPE Industria Gráfica, Cooperativa Vitivinícola Arousana SCG (Paco&Lola), Bodega Matarromera and Packaging Cluster

Budget: € 257.522,22 

Call Agrupación Empresarial Innovadora. May, 2020. Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo

Year: 2020

Description: Project that is committed to the use of new printing technologies for the manufacture of smart labels. This inter-cluster and trans-autonomous initiative tries to develop smart labels using contactless technology, to offer other functionalities in packaging such as product traceability or counterfeiting control systems.

Consortium: AIS Vision Systems, E21 Design Technologies, Industrias Plásticas Triana and Packaging Cluster

Budget: € 281.969,08 

Call: Agrupación Empresarial Innovadora. May, 2020. Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo. 

Year: 2020

Description: Packvision is a project that incorporates the artificial vision system of AIS Vision Systems and the robotic system of E21 Design Technologies, to achieve zero error in the production line of the consortium companies. With this technology, printing errors in products will be easily detected, thus obtaining a comprehensive quality control system in the production chain.

Consortium: SECPHO, Packaging Cluster, System@tic, Paris Region, VIFU- Videcenter for Fodevareudvikling, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, PACK4FOOD and Vitagora Pole.

Budgett: 449.975 €

Call: COS-CLUSINT-2019-3-01 (Cluster Go International)

Year: 2020

Description: It aims to encourage collaboration between groups and business networks in the strategic field of food security. It connects groups of four different sectors (agriculture, food processing, packaging and deep technology) and 5 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy and Spain) to help European SMEs access new global value chains and ensure their position as innovation leaders in specific industries. Missions to India and South Africa will be done.

Coordination: Packaging Cluster

Consortium: Cluster Foodservice, Lietuvos Maisto Eksportuotoju Asociacija (LITMEA), Latvijas Partikas Uznemumu Federacija and the Business Upper Austria – OO WIRTSCHAFTSAGENTUR GMBH.

Year: 2019

Budget: 456.623 €

Call: COS-CLUSTER-2018-03-02

Description: The project helps to strengthen and build the capacities of the clusters involved, to turn them into changemakers and facilitate the process towards excellence. More specifically, clusters improve governance and management, entrepreneurship, shared value ecosystems between members and communication and brand. We will work with food clusters in Austria and the Baltic countries (Lithuania and Latvia), which will promote the exchange of 50 companies between these countries.

Consortium: IP Triana/ Eurecat / Packaging Cluster

Budget: € 53,447.00

Call: Projectes de foment de l'economia circular. TES/1711/2019 Agencia de Residus de Catalunya.

Year: 2019

Description The aim of the project is the creation of a new line of biodegradable packaging products. The project will help Triana to develop materials compatible with current products at the level of transformation as a mechanical level so that they are compatible with the current ones.