
Metall/KunststoffDIALOG
Metall | Kunststoff | DIALOG c/o WFG Raum Heilbronn GmbH
Overview
About us
The prioritized strategic fields of action include:
Support in market development (e.g. joint trade fair appearances, brochures, websites etc.), industry-specific networking (e.g. industry-specific lecture events, working groups, matching of companies), industry-specific lobbying (e.g. through participation in cluster initiatives of the state) and industry-specific topics in personnel development.
Support in internationalization of our member companies.
Established - 01 September 2003
Staff in the management team - 1-5
Support services for upskilling and reskilling of companies workforce
- Competence development
Cluster composition
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92Cluster Members
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77SME's
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2Number of start-ups among SME's
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5Large Companies
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4Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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2Number of civil society members
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4Other Ecosystem Actors
Legal form of the cluster organisation
Languages spoken
Link to the team description on the cluster organisation website
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Management team
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral industries
Sectoral Industries (NACE 4 digit)
Cross-sectoral industries
Industrial Alliances and Ecosystems
Technology fields
S3 EU priority areas
Key members
Profile name | Location | |
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Danish Materials Network |
Denmark
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Services
Support services provided
Further information
Wirtschaftsförderung Raum Heilbronn GmbH understands itself and functions as a "business developer". The cluster orientates its services according to the needs of the cluster members.
An essential focus is the business development of the member companies, including economic know-how from the sectors:
- innovation management
- product development
- production optimization
- technological transformation
- corporate management
Support services for upskilling and reskilling of companies workforce
Support programmes
EU Programmes
Name & description
Summary and objectives
The overall goal of the project is to intensify the international cluster and business network collaboration across the consortium partners around recycling and eco design of polymers and composites involving polymers.
The polymer industry in Europe gives direct employment to over 1.5 million people. Close to 60,000 companies, most of them SME’s, are engaged in the polymer industry and represent a turnover close to 350 billion euros and a trade balance close to 15 billion euros. (Source: Plastic Europe). Recycling and eco-design of polymer products are receiving increasing attention due to the growing concern about climate change and plastic pollution. Polymers are a popular material due to their many functionalities and demand for them is driving the development of everincreasing advanced polymer solutions. While polymers are great materials that play an indisputable role in our modern society, polymers also pose a threat in terms of land, ocean and air pollution. For the industry, this means both threats and opportunities. The threats span from increasing regulations in terms of requirements for recyclability, waste reduction and prevention, design for disassembly etc. to bans on certain types of polymer materials and consumer demand for alternatives. Opportunities occur when a market changes. New business models spawns and new companies occur. SMEs play a crucial role in this journey towards a sustainable plastic economy. The mission of our consortium is to convert threats into opportunities for our members and to enable them to seize opportunities. The consortium partners have come together to explore how an intensified cluster and business network collaboration across borders can meet this challenge and support the exploitation of international business opportunities related to the topic of eco-design and recycling of polymers.
The specific objective of the project is to:
1) Select 3-4 countries of interest. This will be done by involving our SME members in the selection process. We plan to carry out a workshop in each consortium partner’s country with 10 participating SMEs expected in Denmark and Slovakia and 15 SMEs in Germany and France respectively. Another 10-15 SMEs in each country will be phone interviewed. The results will be shared on a consortium partner meeting.
2) Select 1-2 target markets/sectors in each target country outside Europe
3) Identify and initiate collaboration with clusters or business networks in the target markets and countries, at least one per country and/or market. This will be done by approaching the relevant cluster and business networks in the selected countries and carrying out a partner mission to each country and visiting 1-2 potential collaboration partners.
4) Development of a joint internationalisation strategy and an implementation road map that will be shared to promote joint actions. The strategy will be developed as a combination of desk research and a whole day of workshop among the consortium partners.
Project name
PolymER ReCYcling
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational support activites
International support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairsFurther information
AERCIV: Working Group made by 5 EU clusters ( AUTOKLASTR -CZ, COMET SRL- IT, AC SERBIA-RS, FEMAC-ES and Kunststoff DIALOG-DE) is focused on the electric vehicle , which objective is to see knowledge-based enterprises grow and thrive along with the value chain of electrical vehicles, especially for agricultural machinery, and civil works.
EVOLUTE: Working Group composed by 6 EU clusters ( AUTOKLASTR -CZ, COMET SRL- IT, AC SERBIA-RS, CAAR-ES, FEMAC-ES and Metall | Kunststoff | DIALOG-DE) is striving for cluster excellence in the fields of the Automotive and Land Machines Industry.
Connection to cluster organisation(s)
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EVOLUTE - wE striVe fOr cLUsTer Excellence in the Automotive and Land Machine Industry |
Germany
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Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region Ltd. |
Germany
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Comet Scrl |
Italy
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Danish Materials Network |
Denmark
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Membership in cluster networks, meta clusters and national associations of clusters
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European Automotive Cluster Network |
France
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PolymER reCYcling |
Denmark
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EVOLUTE - wE striVe fOr cLUsTer Excellence in the Automotive and Land Machine Industry |
Germany
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