Igniting advanced manufacturing in less developed regions
IGNITE-LDR helps manufacturing SMEs adopt advanced technologies through collaboration, testing environments, and real industrial validation.
key facts
months
(Dec 2025 – Dec 2028)
partners
countries
pilot demonstrators
the challenge
Manufacturing SMEs are the backbone of regional economies, but many face barriers to adopting advanced technologies.
These include:
This slows down digital transformation and limits competitiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.
THE IGNITE-LDR APPROACH
IGNITE-LDR helps SMEs move from interest to adoption.
We connect companies with:
So they can discover, test and deploy solutions with lower risk.
how it works
1.
DISCOVER
Find technologies, partners and funding opportunities
2.
TEST
Validate solutions in real industrial environments
3.
Deploy
Adopt solutions ready for real production
WHAT IGNITE-LDR OFFERS: 3 GATEWAYS
🚀 Open Calls
Receive funding and support to test and adopt advanced manufacturing solution
· €1.8M total funding
· Up to €60k per project
· 9-month support programme
⚙️ technology
Access validated industrial solutions and collaboration tools through the RAMP Marketplace
INDUSTRIAL IMPACT
Pilot 1
STARAMAKI (Greece)
- Sector: Bio-based materials & circular manufacturing
STARAMAKI is scaling its production of wheat-straw-based materials by introducing robotics and digital traceability systems. Within IGNITE-LDR, Delta robots support automated processing, while IoT-enabled tracking improves transparency across the supply chain from field to factory.
- Expected impact
Higher production speed • reduced waste • improved traceability • scalable circular manufacturing
Pilot 2
EUROPACK BULGARIA (Bulgaria)
- Sector: Sustainable packaging materials (stone paper)
EUROPACK will deploy waste tracking and analytics tools to monitor material flows throughout production. These solutions support better resource reuse and enable more circular manufacturing processes for innovative stone-paper products.
- Expected impact
Reduced material waste • improved resource efficiency • stronger circular economy practices.
Pilot 3
GLNP & FAMOLDE (Portugal)
- Sector: Mould manufacturing & thermoplastics injection
GLNP and FAMOLDE will implement defect detection systems and improve integration between production and supply-chain data. These solutions optimize both tool manufacturing and injection processes while improving coordination across manufacturing stages.
- Expected impact
Improved product quality • fewer defects • enhanced supply-chain coordination • higher production efficiency.
Pilot 4
HS BACO PANELS (Romania)
- Sector: Wood panel manufacturing
HS BACO PANELS will introduce digital monitoring tools to improve compliance tracking, energy performance and sustainability across its production processes. The pilot demonstrates how traditional wood manufacturing can benefit from smarter resource management.
- Expected impact
Improved energy efficiency • stronger compliance monitoring • enhanced sustainability performance.
Pilot 5
SEACSUB (Italy)
- Sector: Sporting and diving equipment manufacturing
SEACSUB will deploy energy-efficient production scheduling and automated quality inspection supported by robotics and data analytics. These tools will optimise manufacturing workflows while ensuring higher product quality and reduced energy consumption.
- Expected impact
Optimised production scheduling • automated quality control • reduced energy use • improved product reliability.
Pilot 6
TAPI (Poland)
- Sector: Footwear manufacturing
TAPI will introduce flexible automation, 3D printing technologies and real-time production tracking to support more adaptive and customised shoe manufacturing. The pilot highlights how SMEs can increase flexibility while improving efficiency.
- Expected impact
Greater production flexibility • real-time monitoring • customised manufacturing capability • improved efficiency.
- 10–15 third-party experiments (ITEs)
Focusing on:
- production optimisation
- automation and robotics
- digital and cloud-based tools
- sustainable and circular manufacturing
TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK
IGNITE-LDR connects existing platforms into one adoption pathway:
RAMP
technology access & deployment
AGORA
collaboration & knowledge
F6S
funding & open calls
This allows SMEs to move from exploration to real implementation.
organisations
IGNITE-LDR brings together 23 organisations across 14 countries, including:
· industrial companies
· technology providers
· research organisations
· innovation hubs
Working together to ensure technologies are not only developed, but adopted.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732480.
