R+D+i projects

NAME and SUBTITLE: GREEN IMPACKT, Sustainable transformation of industrial value chains related to plastic and packaging in Colombia

CONSORTIUM: ANDI (National Association of Entrepreneurs of Colombia), CLEAN Cluster and PackagingCluster

DESCRIPTION: The project aims to support the transition of Colombian SMEs in the plastics, packaging and packaging sector towards a circular economy through training and collaboration with EU solution providers. The central idea will provide SMEs with access to tools and knowledge to strengthen their skills and adopt more sustainable practices in the sector, based on cooperation with European suppliers. The project includes training activities in the circular economy, development of tools such as roadmap and monitoring, access to success stories and best practices, and knowledge about the resources available as sources of financing that promote the circular economy in the sector.

BUDGET: €358,386

CALL: AL-INVEST Green AIV_P922_call2

NAME: VALUE4PACK

CONSORTIUM: NATUREEF Association, Pack4Food, Flanders' FOOD, Lithuanian food exporters association (LitMEA), Valorial, le réseau innovation agri-agro, Agrifood Clust-ER, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, DBH Group, Omnipack Packaging Technology Cluster, Gospodarska zbornica Slovenije, CLIC Innovation Oy, Packbridge, Galicia Food Cluster, POLYMERIS, LETVIJAS PARTIKAS UZNEMUMU FEDERACIJA

DESCRIPTION: Value4Pack aims to strengthen cross-regional collaborations, support innovation and bridge gaps between different stakeholders by creating an inclusive ecosystem and providing targeted assistance, to boost innovation and investment capacity in the supply chain. European value of food packaging. Value4Pack is an interregional innovation investment project (I3) originating from the European S3 Partnership Food Packaging.

BUDGET: €1,477,721

CALL: Interregional innovation investment project I3-2022-CAP2b

NAME: SPBACK

CONSORTIUM: Controlpack and the Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: With the execution of this initiative, the possibility of activating stretch film recovery circuits distributed by the company will be evaluated, and a pilot will be offered with a client to activate film recovery through reverse logistics, trobar recyclers. of LDPE film and contextualize possible plastic tax deductions for film recovery.

BUDGET: €79,863

CALL: Projects to promote the circular economy ACC/3552/2022. Waste Agency of Catalonia.

NAME: MEATPACK

CONSORTIUM: Innovacc i Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The MEÆT PACK project is a collaborative initiative between the INNOVACC Cluster and the Packaging Cluster to create a sectoral guide to meat packaging and alternative protein in the context of the Circular Economy and Ecodesign. This study aims to analyze the different solutions in terms of sustainability in a holistic way: both the ecological protection of the packaging itself and the food waste that can be avoided from the products they contain.

BUDGET: €40,000

CALL: Circular economy promotion projects ACC/3552/2022. Waste Agency of Catalonia.

NAME AND SUBTITLE: SMARTENPAL, Research into Intelligent Automation, Monitoring and Servitization Technologies for palletizing and wrapping.

CONSORTIUM: Infosa, Controlpack, Tepsis, Bertia, Pentamatiki the Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The project aims to industrial research into advanced intelligent technologies for Monitoring and Robotization of palletizing and wrapping processes, facing important challenges within the field of digitalization/industry 4.0, automation, prediction and sustainability, for the transformation of the manufacturing sector. packaging.

BUDGET: €242,762

CALL: Innovative Business Groups. May, 2023. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.

NAME and SUBTITLE: INDUREC 4.0 - Research for the traceability of the plastic packaging recycling process in the transition to industry 4.0.

CONSORTIUM: AEI Clúster Envase y Embalaje de la Comunidad Valenciana, AIMPLAS, Perez Cerdá, Blockchain Traceability (Trazable) & AEI Packaging Cluster.

DESCRIPTION: InduRec 4.0 proposes the development of a software application for the control and traceability of the processes of packaging management facilities, covering everything from packaging recycling to different transformation processes. It aims to satisfy the industry's need to optimize its processes with the generation and use of data that allows it to valorize waste and better understand the efficiency of its process, just as it offers the type of solutions that are proposed in the project and that are linked to the concept of industry 4.0.

BUDGET: €178,034

CALL: Innovative Business Groups. May, 2023. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.

NAME and SUBTITLE: PACKIMPACT 2.0: New platform to analyze the environmental impact of packaging and compare alternatives

CONSORTIUM: Aimplas, inèdit, IFLEX, Comexi and the Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The objective of this project is research to develop an easy and intuitive tool (LCA) so that companies in the packaging sector can analyze and value their packaging taking into account their entire value chain in a simple way. and fast with generic data dumped into the tool. This project is driven by the sector's demand to measure the environmental impact in terms of carbon footprint and other environmental indicators derived from the analysis of the life cycle of its packaging and the recyclability of the materials used for each of these containers.

BUDGET: €241,420

CALL: Innovative Business Groups. May, 2023. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.

NAME and SUBTITLE: SMART STOCK DUOMO 2.0: Digitization of logistics processes and inventory management with Smart Pressure Senso

CONSORCI: Akoma, Twentic, Rotimpres, Embeblue, Functional Print and the Packaging Cluster.

DESCRIPTION: The objective of this project is the investigation of a more efficient and economical inventory control system for bulk products (such as screws and similar parts) and for mono[1]reference locations. To achieve this, screen printing technology will be used to create printed sensors that can be placed in boxes or drawers and monitor the amount of stock present in them through weight. In addition, it is intended to achieve complete automation and digitalization of the Akoma warehouse, applying the order management system that was developed in the first phase and adding the research and development of the integration with the Warehouse Management System (WMS), as well as its communication with the implementation of a robot.

PRESSUPOST: €324,779

CALL: Innovative Business Groups. May, 2023. Ministeri d'Indústria, Commerce i Turisme.

NAME and SUBTITLE: MADAM – Automatic anomaly detection and error prevention model with Machine learning

CONSORTIUM: Synaptik, Comexi, Dribia, Rotorprint and Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The purpose of the project is to promote the modernization and efficiency of production processes through the application of digital technology and automation. It is intended to be carried out through an automated solution that detects anomalies in the machinery of the flexible packaging sector (printing, lamination and cutting). To achieve this, the aim is to develop an algorithm that allows, with the acquisition and analysis of data, to predict future failures and thus avoid delays and costs associated with repairs and production stops. At the same time, it seeks to promote a more sustainable production model that reduces or eliminates the production of waste produced by the loss generated due to machine errors.

BUDGET: €284,385

CALL: Innovative Business Groups. Mayo, 2023. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.

NAME: Smart Battery Case 2

CONSORTIUM: Compoxi, Cooling Photonics, Rotimpres, CAT UAV, MAV Cluster and Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: "Smart Battery Case. Functionalization of materials for electromobility" is an industrial research project whose main goal is to develop digitalized and technologically advanced battery cases for electric charging drones

BUDGET: €285,717

CALL:  Agrupaciones Empresariales Innovadoras. October, 2022. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

NAME: INNOVALIM: Innovació a l'Emprenedoria Alimentària

CONSORTIUM: INNOVI Wine Cluster, Packaging Cluster and Foodservice Cluste

DESCRIPTION: The purpose of the project is to promote specialized entrepreneurship in the value chain of the food sector in accordance with innovation and technology. Through this value proposition, it is intended to help the link between entrepreneurship and existing companies and, at the same time, promote intra-entrepreneurship within the business world through a program divided between theoretical and practical training and mentoring.

BUDGET: €59,121.63

CALL: January 2023 – December 2023

The Layertech project has investigated a solution that allows the separation of the different layers of multilayer materials, efficiently, thus facilitating their recycling.

Likewise, the monitoring in the application of the lacquer with a gas barrier effect has been investigated, to control its thickness, guaranteeing the greatest efficiency in the manufacturing process.

CONSORTIUM: Masia Vallformosa, Juvé & Camps, Ais Vision, Innovi and the Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The project aims to analyze the feasibility of installing artificial vision in wineries to improve the quality and safety of the wines produced. This project is based as the main technological trend in artificial intelligence. Artificial vision in the Wine sector (Line of aid for Initiatives to Strengthen competitiveness for cluster projects. Innovation projects (Line 2))

BUDGET: €99,955.44

CALL: Gener 2023 – December 2023

CONSORTIUM: Advanced Materials Cluster, Compoxi, Cooling Photonics, Rotimpres, Solar Box and the Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: "Smart Battery Case. Functionalization of materials for electromobility" is an industrial research project whose main objective is to develop new digitized, technologically advanced and more efficient battery cases (electrochemical storage systems) of new materials for electric and hybrid vehicles, specifically for naval transport.

BUDGET: €287,527

CALL: Innovative Business Group. October, 2022. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

CONSORTIUM: Rieusset, NG Plastics, Alzamora, Font Packaging, Lúcid, Inèdit, Virospack, Envases Plasticos del Ter and Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: Packimpact, wants to be a very simplified but rigorous online environmental quantification software based on the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of the containers, customized and adapted to this sector. Life cycle analysis tool of a line container Aid to Initiatives to Strengthen competitiveness for cluster projects. Competitiveness strengthening projects (Line 1)

I develop an easy and intuitive tool so that companies in the container and packaging sector can carry out life cycle analyzes and value their containers taking into account their entire value chain in a simple and fast way with generic data entered into the tool.

BUDGET: €96,571.30

CALL: Gener 2022 – August 2023

CONSORTIUM: Spanish Plastics Center, Dribia, Saplex, Tai Smart Factory and the Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The BOWSER project uses all the power of artificial intelligence to be able to acquire new knowledge that is capable of defining an optimal configuration of the production parameters that minimizes the deviations of the gauge of the plastic sheet. This industrial research project aims to predict the gauge of the finished product, analyze which process parameters affect them and, finally, determine the best manufacturing configuration. All this from all the sensory information of the production process, both from the manufacture of the sheet and the finished product.

BUDGET: €234,224

CALL: Innovative Business Group. October, 2022. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

CONSORTIUM: AEI Food+I, IFLEX, Moses, Tecnopackaging and the Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: LAYERTECH is a strategic intercluster project, promoted by the AEI Packaging Cluster and AEI Food+I. It is an interterritorial project, where companies from Aragon, Catalonia and the Ebro Valley collaborate with the idea of carrying out industrial research to improve the recovery of multilayer packaging. This solution will be able to improve the recyclability of the most widely used type of packaging in the food sector. In turn, the project will be able to investigate lacquer application technology, one of the most complicated parts to separate in a multi-material.

BUDGET: €176,720

CALL: Innovative Business Group. October, 2022. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

CONSORTIUM: Molmasa, IP Triana, KUKA, Tepsis, Business Analytics Partners, VM Systems and the Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The general objective of PETinject is the development of a novel integrated process for the production of high-performance recyclable PET containers, through the investigation and development of new advanced molding, digitization and automation technologies, which will allow the promotion of technological solutions that favor to the industrial sector in its transition towards a more circular and sustainable economy, and at the same time, improve the energy efficiency, digitization, flexibility and quality of current systems.

BUDGET: €382,076

CALL: Innovative Business Group. October, 2022. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

CONSORTIUM: TAI Smart Factory, Dribia, Gerosa Group and the Packaging Cluster

DESCRIPTION: The initiative represents the second phase of the ATEX&QPlant project to scale up the digitization of Gerosa Group's production. The DDM project seeks to adapt Cellografica Gerosa's production process to industry 4.0, equipping it with sensors and other hardware necessary to collect data from the machines and connect them to TAI SMART FACTORY's data management software and thus evaluate the development in a next phase of a new algorithmic product created by DRIBIA validated through a pilot integrated by TAI SMART FACTORY in the use case of the Gerosa Group.

BUDGET: €180,201

CALL: Innovative Business Group. October, 2022. Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

CONSORTIUM: Ametller Origen, Delafruit and Cobeveragelab, Samtack and Gráficas Salaet, Zona Franca and Mercabarna Consortium, IRTA research center and the BIMATEC and LEPAMAP research groups of the UdG and the Packaging Cluster.

DESCRIPTION: The general objective of the innovative pilot project Foodwaste for foodpack is to materially valorise waste from the fruit and vegetable processing industry as a resource to obtain a fiber-based packaging material for the agri-food industry. The pilot project aims to contribute to the use of the waste generated by fruit and vegetable processing companies, turning it into a local resource for the packaging sector that offers an alternative to the use of virgin raw materials such as plastic and cellulose.

BUDGET: €169,798.40

CALL: Project financed through Operation 16.01.01 Cooperation for innovation of the Rural Development Program of Catalonia 2014-2020".