Mission and objectives of the Paper Cluster

Origins
The Basque Paper Cluster was begun as a non-profit association in April 1998. A group of Companies, with the cooperation of the Basque Government, decided to join together to boost competitivity among pulp and paper Companies.

Mission
The mission of The Basque Paper Cluster is to work as an agent for members companies, promoting and coordinating all the necessary actions to promote improvement. These actions are based on co-operation among different companies in the sector defending common interests.

The mission of the Basque Paper Cluster is to listen to the needs of members, identify sinergies among companies in the sector, improving support the setting up and monitoring of co-operation projects Commitment to improvement

Commitment on improving
The Basque Paper Cluster is committed to promote the synergies and agreements among its member companies in order to improve competitiveness. All its actions and projects are intended to provide members with a defence of their common interests and thus enable it to become the acknowledged representative of the sector.

Structure of the Cluster
The General Assembly of the Paper Cluster is the highest decision making body of the Association. It is composed of the founder members and full members. The Directing Board of The Basque Paper Cluster is the highest executive body, it is made up of representatives chosen by the General Assembly of the member Companies.

There are four working committes, each dealing with one key line: Quality and Management, Internationalization, Environment and Technology.

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Structure of the Basque Paper Cluster

The Members
The member companies of the Cluster represent various subsectors within the Basque paper sector:

• Production of market pulp.
• Production of integrated pulp.
• Production of paper.
  • Printing and Writing
  • Kraft.
  • Packaging.
  • Others.
• Manufacture of capital goods for the Paper industry
• Technical training
• Engineering and Consultancy related to the paper sector.

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