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Accelerating Innovation into Business in Chemistry and Plastics
At Catalisti, the spearhead cluster for innovation in the chemical and plastics industries, we mean business for companies. As one of the six spearhead clusters or open innovation clusters in Flanders, our team creates successful synergies between companies of all sizes, universities and research institutes to accelerate the transition to sustainable chemistry and plastics.
From innovation to new business
Our Mission
Our mission is to actively contribute to sustainable and competitive chemical & plastics industries by working on new value chains, improved innovation power, clustering knowledge, and a sustainable economy.
Through open innovation projects with support from the Flemish government, we champion cooperation throughout the industrial value chain to facilitate industrial innovations. Our expertise lies in combining expertise across sectors and disciplines, and making innovation concrete for your core business. We work with companies, sectors, other clusters and international peers.
Catalisti as a crucial partner
We are a team of specialists who initiate, capture and facilitate open innovation projects in the cluster network as a neutral partner. We ensure agreement and alignment. Our experience in many projects makes us a crucial partner: we make open innovation happen fast and help create a more competitive and more sustainable business.
Our members are open innovators
We operate through an extensive network, which includes more than 125 members: from industrial players throughout the entire chemical and plastics value chain to world-class universities and renowned research institutes. In the chemical and plastics industries, we work with start-ups, SMEs and global players.
Your benefits
As a member of Catalisti, you benefit from first-class information related to cutting-edge research and sustainability. You also benefit from our services in accelerating innovation into business. Catalisti gives new business opportunities a boost. We help our members not only to identify new developments and growth opportunities, but also to valorize them. Companies can remain competitive in sustainable products and processes, and keep a robust international reach.
A story of succesful innovations
Check out our testimonials to learn more about our approach.
FUNY
The ICON project FUNY investigates whether the existing process to add functionalities to powder coating particles can be made more sustainable. The project integrates two core technologies for the production of such particles: atmospheric plasma technology and coating reactor technology. This combined technology opens up opportunities for the functionalisation of powder coating particles in a wide variety of applications.
Enzymares
The intercluster project Enzymares, supported by Catalisti, Blauwe Cluster and Flanders’ FOOD, developed an enzyme prediction toolbox to speed up enzyme discovery and reduce the time-to-market for new enzymes. The innovative toolbox contributes to the success of enzymes as sustainable bio-catalysts and thus supports companies in making their processes and products more sustainable. Discover the project with this video.
BluePlasma
The BluePlasma project is focused on converting CO2 into CO, which can be used to produce value-added chemicals such as e-fuels and polymers. The project aims to achieve a circular and sustainable economy and reduce CO2 emissions.