PROPLAST

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General Information
The date when the cluster organisation was established: 
Thursday, 1 January, 1998
Number of staff in the management team of the cluster organisation : 
over 30
Legal form of the cluster organisation: 
Non-Profit
Regions: 
Piemonte
Cluster Excellence Label: 
Silver Label
Other Label: 
Certificato ISO 9001
Membership to European Strategic Cluster Partnerships (ESCP-4i, ESCP-S3 or ESCP-4x): 
WIINTECH2020
Membership to other networks/partnerships: 
NameWebsite
ECP4
http://www.ecp4.eu/
Cluster Management Team: 
NameSurnamePositionTelephoneEmail
Susana
Remotti
Cluster Manager
+39 0131 1859726
susana.remotti@proplast.it
Marco
Monti
Project Manager
+39 0131 1859782
marco.monti@proplast.it
Link to team description on the cluster's website: 
https://www.proplast.it/cluster-en/
Languages spoken: 
English
Italian
Spanish
Sectoral and Industrial Focus
Sectoral Industries: 
Plastics
Technology fields: 
3D printing
Plastics, Polymers
S3 EU priority areas: 
Advanced manufacturing systems
Advanced materials
Emerging industries: 
Advanced Packaging
Medical Devices
Composition of the cluster
Total number of members: 
199
Number of SME members: 
181
Number of larger company members: 
35
Number of research organisations/universities/technology centres: 
11
Number of other ecosystem actors : 
7
Link to the cluster members’ list: 
https://www.proplast.it/our-members/
Entrepreneurship and scale-up support facilities in the cluster's ecosystem (see "Organisation type"): 
Name and link of major players: 
NameWebsiteType
GUALA CLOSURES
http://www.gualaclosures.com/it/
Larger Company
COVESTRO
http://www.covestro.com/
Larger Company
GUALA DISPENSING
http://www.gualadispensing.com/
Larger Company
Cluster Strategy
Mission/Objectives: 

PROPLAST is a technological center focused on research and innovation in the polymer and composite sector, recognized as a European Cluster (ESCA Silver Labelled), whose mission is to foster enterprises’ competitiveness by supporting their technological progress and promoting industrial cross-fertilization.

Proplast is active in in several collaborative projects at European (H2020, Life+, Interreg Program, Erasmus+) and national level. Since 2008, Proplast is recognized as one of the managing bodies of the CGREEN - Green chemistry and advanced materials innovation Cluster in Piedmont Region.

Internal goal: to be a highly competent, creative and professional team, operating in an efficient, serene, and stimulating working environment that supports personal growth and teamwork.

Overall guidelines for the next 3 years strategy:

The next years will see an additional need of new development and adaptation to the market needs.

Main principle that will drive such development for Proplast will be:

  • public funding support has decreased significantly and showed its unpredictable character: a solid organization cannot rely too much on those public support sources
  • private contracts are the most reliable source of income
  • turnover generated by a selected variety of high level services sold to the members/non members is the MAIN KPI that a cluster can have

Core services and activities

  • Cluster management
  • Technical services and R&D
  • HR services
Do you have a formalised strategy?: 
Yes
Do you have a specific strategy focus that addresses internationalisation ?: 
Yes
Services
Support services provided: 
Access to technology services
Facilitation of collaboration between members
Trend-scouting (Ideas for innovative projects)
Promotion of activities (marketing/ visibility)
Support of technology transfer
Cooperation Activities
International Cooperation
The main countries targeted by the cluster organisation: 
India
United States
Our cluster organisation undertook the following international activities to support our members: 
Promotional Activities
Trans-national Cooperation
The main countries targeted by the cluster organisation: 
France
Germany
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
Our cluster organisation undertook the following trans-national activities to support our members: 
Support to collaborative activities/etc.
Which clusters do you collaborate with?: 
Plastipolis (EU)
Avep (EU)
Poolnet (EU)
Ludescheid (EU)
Nepic (EU)
Clusterland (EU)
Reseau Plasturgie (EU)
Kunststoff-cluster (EU)
Mesap (EU)
Biopmed (EU)
Support Programmes
Participation in Funded Support Programmes: 
European ProgrammesProject NameLinkName & Description (Regional/National)Link (Regional/National)
FP7
H2020
CIP/COSME
INTERREG
Other

European funds FP7: “FIRE-RESIST - Developing Novel Fire-Resistant High Performance Composites” – development of flame retardant engineering composite materials for the transport industry (air, naval, railway)

European Regional Development Funds (ERDF): Alcotra 2007-2013 – EDEN “EcoDEsign Network”

COS-CLUSTER-2014-3-04-02-1 Topic: COSME-12-2015: MATERIALIX -  Development of a European Meta-Cluster Sviluppo (group of Clusters). Strengthen cluster management excellence along the industrial new materials value-chain.

Alpine Space 2014-2020: S3-4ALPCLUSTERS - Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) to build an Innovation model for Alp Clusters.

Erasmus+ – Cooperation for Innovation and the exchange of good practices: ICT PLAST - Development of a training software of SMEs production management

H2020 CIRC-01-2016/17: PLASTICIRCLE - Improvement of the plastic packaging waste chain from a circular economy approach.

ERASMUS+ : PackAlliance: European alliance for innovation training & collaboration towards future packaging

ERASMUS+: 4ZEROPLAST - Development of a training program for enhancing the adaptation of plastic SMEs business models to Industry 4.0

https://www.proplast.it/cluster-en/

National 

Regional

 

https://www.proplast.it/research/
Promotion
Success Story / Achievements: 

https://www.proplast.it/about/since-1998/

https://www.cgreen.it/en/homepageen/

Why should partners choose you for cooperation?: 

Proplast Consortium was created with the aim to promote the plastic culture in Italy. The main goals of Proplast are:

  1. The offering of services to all those - enterprises and people - who operate in the plastics field and are interested in its development.
  2. The creation of a reference point for experimental and research activities, both within the courses and in favour of companies working in the plastic field.
  3. The representation of a reference point for a professional education about plastics.
  4. The promotion of the co-operation between national and international companies, athenaeums and other business, formative and research entities