I Jornada Interclúster sobre Residuos y Materiales Avanzados
12. 03

1st Intercluster Conference on Waste and Advanced Materials

About twenty companies present their solutions at the intercluster on waste and advanced materials.

The facilities of the GPA Innova company yesterday hosted the intercluster day “Opportunities between the waste and materials sector”, organized by the Waste Cluster and the MAV Cluster in collaboration with ACCIÓ and the Waste Agency of Catalonia, which was attended by about sixty people.

On behalf of GPA Innova, Jaume Sallés, Director of Operations; Francesc Rodríguez, director of purchases, and Annaïs Pascual, director of research and CSR, welcomed the attendees, while the Cluster Managers of the MAV Cluster and the Waste Cluster, Ona Bombí and Carmen López-Quintana, introduced the session .


Subsequently, a total of 21 companies presented challenges and solutions in the fields of waste and advanced materials:

  • Ramón Llastarry, Co-founder of BIOSITY.
  • Belén Fernández, Biosystems Sustainability Researcher at IRTA.
  • Pepe Costa, CEO of Augusto Bellini.
  • Verònica Martínez, Senior Consultant and ENT Strategy Manager.
  • Patricio Ward, ALIER Business Development.
  • Toni Prunera, ELIX Polymers R&D Manager.
  • Marta González, ELISAVA Head of Studies.
  • Núria Butchosa, Commercial Technical Advisor of COMINDEX.
  • Pedro Pastor, LightNET Carbon Capture Product Manager.
  • Oscar Baró, Sales & Development Manager of MENZOLIT.
  • Virgínia Boix, Scientist of the Industrial Office of the ALBA Synchrotron.
  • Beatriz Guerrero, Principal Researcher at LEITAT.
  • Denisa Gibovic, CEO & Founder of Blue Room Innovation.
  • Sandra Gallaguet and Alícia Gil, Commercial Directorates-Vilà Vila Environmental Services and Desferres Catalunya.
  • Mariano Mestres, CEO of Center for Environmental Management.
  • Jose Larrañeta, Coproducts and Byproducts Corporate Manager of CELSA GROUP.
  • Guiomar Riu, GPAINNOVA TestLab Engineer.
  • Roger Oriol, Senior R&D Engineer de RIMSA.
  • Andreu Corominas, GICITED Research Group of the UPC.

VISIT AND INTERCLUSTER CONNECTION TABLES

The second part of the day consisted of the holding of five intercluster connection tables (plastics, organic, construction, metals and textiles and fibers), in which the participants could exchange their ideas and interests and, finally, take a guided tour of the GPA Innova facilities.