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It seeks to promote an initiative that aims to contribute to improving the competitiveness of companies make Murcia and an international benchmark in environmental
The cluster was created with the objective of promoting wealth and create nearly 4,000 jobs in a sector which currently brings together 173 industries, with a turnover of 1,179 million euros and about 2,500 jobs
The reference cluster creation in Environment and Renewable Energies in Murcia today begins a decisive phase whose sole purpose will be its implementation.
The project, born from the collaboration between the City and Cespa, has been submitted to the business today Murcia.
About a hundred industries recycling and recovery of waste, especially scrap, scrap, plastics, tires, etc..
and parallel industries such as engineering, have come to the appointment that had been convened at City Hall to find out the feasibility study and implementation of the cluster and its strategic development plan.
Besides welcoming the attendees, Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, discussed the advances made in the project since its launch a year ago.
At that time, the initial proposal was to expand the Waste Treatment Centre in Cañada Hermosa City Council for the construction of a new area of ​​innovation, research and opportunity, with a vocation to promote the creation and consolidation of companies, in order to foster wealth and create jobs.
This project, which is ongoing, would form part of a broader and more ambitious, involving the creation of the cluster that brings together companies and implies a strengthening of their competitiveness, building on synergies, specific weight they already have in the local economy and future growth prospects.
Challenges and Strategies
The initiative, led by the City, through the Department of Street Cleaning and Waste Management led by José Ros, emerges as a powerful opportunity to consolidate recycling industry in Murcia and take the challenges to compete in another way: by expanding the range of waste for recycling and waste more valued, more innovative in the production of secondary raw materials and new products and international demand and more sophisticated.
According to previous studies, the current sector in Murcia comprises 143 companies (transfer centers, secondary raw materials manufacturers, engineers and consultants, laboratories, logistics and equipment manufacturers), with a turnover of 489 million euros and 2285 employees.
To these would include 30 other industries that incorporate in their production processes secondary raw materials manufactured in the cluster, whose turnover amounted to 690 million euros.
Thus, the business that may constitute the entity would be 173 industries, with a business level of 1,179 million euros and about 2,500 jobs.
In the area of ​​environment and renewable energy comprises different types of businesses, including those dealing with difficult waste treatment or not treated directly (from scrap, to tires, medical equipment, vehicles, plastics, electronic ... ), but also companies, selective waste collection, waste transportation, recycling centers, engineering, etc.
Business response will be critical to the viability of this initiative, which begins with a public-private vocation, and where the City-as-explained the Mayor is willing to play a role of facilitator and mediator of wills and projects, giving prominence companies.
Cañada Hermosa, a bet that advances
In parallel, we are developing the plan to expand the Waste Treatment Centre in Cañada Hermosa City Hall for the gestation of an area of ​​innovation and research, with the establishment of industries that form a business incubator for the management sector residues.
The acting in Cañada Hermosa just sign the first agreement to conduct a joint project with Estrella de Levante consistent in obtaining energy from waste beer.
Developing the business incubator near the landfill sector is part of larger project larger and strategic development as reference cluster seeks to improve the competitiveness of the business sector.
Its implementation represents one of the most important activities of the City of Murcia since, besides its undoubted environmental efficiency, will also contribute to strengthening the economic activity of the municipality, promote technological innovation and, above all, boost job creation job.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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