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Association of Mechanical Engineering and

Metalworking Industries of Latvia www.masoc.lv

MASOC Association of Mechanical Engineering and Metalworking

Industries of Latvia

/

Metalworking Cluster

Toms Grinfelds

Executive Director

21.07.2017



MASOC – Association of Mechanical Engineering

and Metalworking Industries of Latvia

• Established in 1994 as informative and consultative centre for the specified industrial sector

• Voluntary, membership based organisation

• Unites about 160 members – companies, related service providers and knowledge institutions

• Members from all regions of Latvia

• Implements activities typical for sector associations and cluster organisations

• Since 2009 – recognised as one of the priority clusters in Latvia as part of National Cluster programmes. Recent project with ERDF support 2016-2020.

• Objective – development of international competitiveness of the member companies and sector in general



MASOC – members

Number of Member Companies Size of Member Companies

(persons employed)

29

1 5 6 6 712 8

26

512

47

24 21

1

1810 12 9

14 159

29 30 29 2833 32 35

4452

8190

103

140

158

177172

151146

151154

158162

164

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New members



MASOC – composition of the cluster

METALS METAL PRODUCTS

MACHINERY ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

TRANSPORT VEHICLES

Design and

prototyping

Testing and

certification

Specialised

services

Material

suppliers

Materials

recovery

Suppliers of

equipment

Education

Research



Main activities of the cluster

Networking / Co-operation

Education & HR development

Marketing / Export promotion

International co-operation

Information

Productivity & efficiency



Key activities – marketing and export

promotion

• Joint stands at international

exhibitions and trade fairs

(Germany, Finland, Sweden,

Norway, UK, Russia)

• Outgoing and incoming trade

missions

• Organisation of Tech Industry –

biggest engineering industry

exhibition in Baltics. Riga, end

of November.



Key activities – R&D and

development of new products • Competence Centre Project

– Implementation 2016 – 2018 (2020)

– Support to development of new products and technologies / industrial R&D

– 15 ongoing research projects

3 main areas of research

Advanced manufacturing technologies

New materials Transport technologies



Key activities – efficiency and

productivity improvement

Topics

Energy efficiency

Digitalisation / Industry 4.0

Process management

New technologies

Activities

Information exchange

Seminars

Study visits

Pilot projects



Key activities – education and HR

development

Human ressource

development

professional further

training Studies

Vocational

preparation and

training Early education Professional

orientation



Key activities - TehnoBuss

• Mobile demo laboratory equipped

with modern technologies – CNC

machines, FESTO automatisation ,

3D printer, multimedia, welding

equipment, etc;

• Visiting schools and giving lectures

to schoolchildren (mainly 7-9 grade)

• Operating since September 2015

• Project developed in co-operation

with Nordmetall, Germany

• Since beginning, more than 180

schools visited, lectures attended by

19 000 schoolchildren

Main objective –

To raise interest in technology and

engineering sciences and to attract

young people to choose technical

education



Key activities – networking and co-

operation • Monthly meetings

– Held in some of the member company

– Exchange of information and good

practice

– Focus on some particular topic

– Networking and building trust

• Two day strategy seminars

– Discussion on strategic issues

– Informal discussion and networking

• Web based information exchange

IT system and database on

available technologies and

competences



MASOC - Association of mechanical

engineering and metalworking industries of

Latvia

Viskaļu iela 36A, Riga, LV-1006, LATVIA

Phone: +371 67554825

Fax: +371 67089776

[email protected]

www.masoc.lv

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