Asociacion Cluster de Industrias de Medio Ambiente de Euskadi


Alda Recalde 50-3º
48008 Bilbao
Spain
Tel. +34 94 470 64 43
Fax +34 94 470 64 44
Web: www.aclima.net
e-mail: aclima@aclima.net
Contact: Miss Mónica Moso

ACLIMA association has constituted in April of 1995 with the put in common of a group of a companies, motivated by the strategic action of the Basque Government. ACLIMA is inside a framework for action of the Basque Government, the competitivity plan, that fetches locate the Basque industry in the first place of what could be a market of new chances in the creation of the European Single Market.

OUR STRATEGIC AIMS ARE
• Promote the analysis and development of new business opportunities.
• Promote the presence of Cluster’s companies in outer markets.
• Collaborate with institutional organizations in the definition of the strategies, politics and legislation for sustainability.
• Increase of R&D in sustainable development.
• Promote the development of the environmental management strategies in companies.

MEMBERS

ACLIMA is characterized by the geographical concentration, favouring the creation of competitive context, Integrated in ACLIMA, where we find environmental services bidders and another industry agents; as well as public institutions, technological investigation centres and universities and finally, big companies which belong to public and private customer sector. Nowadays it has 91 partners, 76 private companies and 15 honour partners that cover the totality of environmental supply, stressing the contribution in other activities as R&D.

Private Companies Environemental Goods & Services 76
Chambers of commerce 3
Basque goverment Departments 3
Local goverments 3
Public entities 2
Universities 3
Research centres 3

WHAT WE OFFER:

WASTE MANAGEMENT (32%)
• Wide range of technologies for treatment specific waste
• Research for development new treatment technologies
• Research for recovery raw materials/energy from different wastes
• Experience in the collection, treatment and recycling
• Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
• Automotive sector waste
• Used oils
• Food industry waste
• Management of all types of hazardous industrial waste
SOILS (14%)
• Experience in assessment on decontamination and recovery of soils
• Infrastructures to enable proper disposal and storage of contaminated soils
• Characterization, risk assessment, decontamination and control projects
WATER (13%)
• Modular systems and plants for purifying domestic and industrial sewage
• Technologies based on reverse osmosis for desalination
• Production of Chemicals for the entire cycle of water treatment
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AIR (8%)
• • Industrial Air Filtration/extraction products and solutions (dust, gas, fumes, steam, mist…).
• • Emission inventories, carbon footprints, brokerage on sales operations of carbon assets in the spot and forward market, policies and strategies on climate change.
ENGINEERING AND CONSULTANCY (17%)
• Clean production and eco-innovation projects
• Environmental Impact Studies
• Environmental guidance, control and surveillance
• Innovation management / environmental research projects
• Protection and restoration of the environment
• Environmental thematic mapping.
• Environmental policy planning
• Law development
• Land planning
• Environmental management systems
• Environmental Audits and diagnostics
• Climate change advisory for public bodies (policies) and private sector ( carbon management, CDM & JI)