Other Members

European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) is the Brussels-based organisation representing the European chemical industry with its 29,000 large, medium and small companies that employ a total workforce of 1.3 million people and account for nearly a third of world chemical production.

CEFIC and  the European Technology Platform SusChem seeks to engage in an open dialogue with the wider stakeholder community, to create a strategic research agenda and to mobilise private and public research investments.

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CIC marGUNE, Cooperative Research Centre in High Performance Manufacturing, is a non profit association founded the in 2002 to develop, by means of cooperation, research which will contribute to an increase in Basque industry competitiveness.

CRC marGUNE has the capacity to combine research outcomes that have a more scientific basis (typical of universities) with focuses that are closer to industrial reality (characteristic of Technological Centres).

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Czech Technology Platform (CTPS) supports the  activities and initiatives of organizations active in the development of engineering industry in the Czech Republic and related scientific, research, technology and innovation activities.

The technology platform is a cooperation group comprising of the key players in the sector, membership is composed of organisations of the following types:

- Industrial enterprises

- Trade associations and unions

- Research and financial institutions

- National public authorities

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EMIRAcle is an association of 23 leading research laboratories in 14 different countries. Their common mission is to act as a collaboration partner for European product development enterprises in manufacturing and innovation research.

The goal of EMIRAcle it to maintain and improving the leading positions of the member laboratories worldwide by increasing their productivity and innovation power.

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ERPC (European Research Programme Consulting) is a cluster of European transport industries and researchers who share a common interest in developing and conducting joint research and development projects on a European Union level and inter-sectoral in character.

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Greenovate Europe is a Brussels-based interest group comprising of companies and industry association with a keen interest in innovation processes, clean technologies as well as resource and energy efficiency.

Greenovate’s four strategic objectives are to promote eco-innovative research, to facilitate the greening of industries, to enable SMEs to access international markets and to act as a think tank contributing to policy design and development.

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iPM² is an independent organisation for the promotion of industry, SMEs, and national associations, more widely for the materials sectors.

iPM2 members are involved with research projects with European partners, and collaborate, both in technical and management areas, into day to day project co-ordination.

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MANUFUTURE-CH has around 30 members and aims to support researchers and SMEs in Switzerland with R&D and manufacturing issues.

The functions of the association are to strengthen the workplace Switzerland, to provide a national network, to support Swiss companies, to facilitate good public-funded projects and to organise events on manufacturing topics.

The Swiss mechanical engineering, electric equipment and metalworking industries provide 300,000 jobs in the economy and MANUFUTURE-CH is supported by the Swiss federal government.

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Norsk Industri is the Federation of Norwegian Industries and represents almost all industry sectors, in Norway which employ a total workforce of approximately 125,000 employees.

The engineering sector in Norway totals more than 600 companies that are active in automation, machining and metal-forming, and production equipment.

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POMEC Polo Meccatronica is a cluster of enterprise, universities and private applied research laboratories recognised by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research.

POMEC is an innovative model of excellence and a response to the Umbria region’s needs. It is aimed at achieving strong synergies that will lead top common actions by the cluster’s members in the areas of applied research, innovation and high-tech training for the sectors.

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SAATAR is the Slovak Association for Automation Equipment and Robotics. It is a co-operative platform for the development of projects, networking activities and training programmes for automatic equipment and robotics.

The association aims for a higher level of co-ordination with the preparation and development of business plans, programmes, research, education and information and then applying them to the field of automation and robotics.

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