
Pôle MecaTech
Overview
About us
The MecaTech Competitiveness Cluster’s mission is to enhance Wallonia’s entire mechanical engineering sector*, boosting activity and employment, trough engineering and conducting innovative projects of international scope based on networks of large companies, SMEs, universities, research and training centers.
MecaTech develops innovative products, equipments and processes with high added value by relying mainly on four strategic technological fields, namely:
- Materials and surfaces of the future,
- Materials forming such as additive manufacturing
- Microtechnology and mechatronics,
- Smart maintenance and production.
The spectrum of activities is intentionally broad in order to stimulate unprecedented synergy, and the Hybrization of Technologies needed to achieve breakthrough innovations.
Application domaine range from Defense, Construction & Building, Energy, Medtech, Industry or even Mobility and transportation
Cluster composition
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272Cluster Members
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125SME's
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44Large Companies
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95Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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8Other Ecosystem Actors
Achievements
What are the key figures for the Walloon mechanical engineering sector and the MecaTech cluster?
If we assess the first seventeen calls for projects, we count a total of 102 projects (69 research projects, 14 investment projects and 19 training projects) involving 272 players (44 large corporations, 125 SMEs, 77 university laboratories, 18 research centers, 5 higher schools and 3 competence centers; e.g., overall 536 participants). This represents an investment of €285 million, of which €94,3 million derive from private funding (€79,5 million for large enterprises and €114 million for small and medium enterprises).
The companies involved in MecaTech have experienced an important growth as well in terms of employment as in added value. Employment developed from 2005 to 2014: + 66% for SMEs, and + 20% for large corporations, whereas the sector of mechanical engineering indicates a fall of 5%. The same applies to added value: + 107% for SMEs and + 76% for large corporations vs + 11% for the sector. Gross tangible and intangible assets reveal a healthy vitality: + 125% (from 1,285 to 2,889 million) for all member enterprises, and even + 152% (from 470 to 1,186 million) for SMEs alone.
Furthermore, the MecaTech cluster participated in the setting up of 3 platforms in order to respond to the sector’s new opportunities: Symbiosis (use of molecular biomimicry technologies in functional coatings), Reverse Metallurgy (metals recycling involving the CRM and various industrials), and Proton therapy (IBA and various partners).
Management team
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral Industries
Technology fields
S3 EU priority areas
Cross-sectoral industries
Key members
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CMI | ||
IBA | ||
AGC Europe | ||
FN Herstal | ||
Maintenance Partners | ||
Reverse Metallurgy | ||
Technord | ||
Materia Nova | ||
Deltabeam | ||
JEMA |
Services
Support services provided
Support programmes
EU Programmes
Name & description
Project name
INTERREG Transmit 1: Formation au marketing et commercialisation de produits HiTech.
Projet INTERREG IV INTERMAT GR (Grande Région), dedicated to materials & processes.
Projet INTERREG V FACTORY 4.0 (France Wallonie Flandre), dedicated to increasing competitiveness of SME's of region in line with digital factory concepts.
Projet INTERREG V Robotix Academy (Greater Region), focused on connecting Research & Industry on the topics of robotics
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational support activites
International support activites
Support to collaborative activities/etc.Upcoming events
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