For the company UAB Hoda, 2024 is rich with new clients and active expansion!

According to the company’s project manager Martynas Meironas, this year they have begun working with clients from Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Finland, Poland, and other European countries. The company has actively exported its products — plastic parts produced by injection moulding, sub-assembled components, and final assembled and packed products which could go directly to the end user.

Hoda, UAB operates in the fields of plastic injection moulding, manufacturing of moulds, assembling plastic and component parts into finished products. This year, the company replaced 4 injection moulding machines and has an approved plan for 2025 to replace 10 more machines.

The company actively participates in international Plastic Industry exhibitions – Hannover Messe, IAA Mobility, Elmia where they present their products and services, consistently increasing the number of clients.

In 2023, the company’s revenue reached €21,341,158. This year the company expects ~2% growth.

The Lithuanian Plastics Cluster, whose coordinator is LINPRA – Lithuanian Engineering and Technology Industry Association, became a member of AIMPLAS! Congratulations!

AIMPLAS is Technological Center with more than 30 years of experience in the plastics industry. AIMPLAS provide solutions to companies across the entire value chain, from raw material manufacturers to transformers and end-users. The organisation works to solve the challenges facing the use of plastic in today’s society in order to improve people’s quality of life and ensure environmental sustainability.

The partnership between two organisations will help strengthen and grow the companies in the Plastics Cluster, deepen technological capabilities, conduct product testing and research, execute R&D, create and implement innovative solutions.

The most important facts about AIMPLAS, a new partner of the Lithuanian Plastics Cluster:

• More than 12,000 m2 of cutting-edge facilities
• Pilot plants (6,500 m2)
• Laboratories (4,500 m2)
• Training (1,000 m2)
• 3,300 + clients
• 840 + members companies
• EUR 21.3M revenue.

Last week in Poland, Lithuanian Plastics Cluster and Bydgoszcz Industrial Cluster Tool Valley signed  the Letter of Intent. As soon as special procedures are accomplished, our Cluster would become a full-fledged member.

The aim of the agreement is to support a sustainable cooperation between Bydgoszcz Industrial Cluster Tool Valley and Lithuanian Plastics Cluster. Parties will cooperate in the following areas:
– supporting business cooperation between members of both clusters,
cooperation in the formulation of new projects ideas,
– taking actions aimed at developing and increasing innovation in plastics processing and tool industries,
– international promotion of plastics processing and tool branches,
informing each other about new possibilities and projects dedicated to clusters on international level,
– sharing best practices and relevant experience,
– inviting each other on conferences, trade fairs and other public events.

Bydgoszcz Industrial Cluster Tool Valley incorporates companies of the toolmaking and plastic processing industries, as well as plastics recyclers, and a range of business-related institutions, including universities, research and development units, etc.

We wish you a fruitful cooperation!

In the recent general meeting of the Plastics Cluster members, companies shared their current experiences and discussed prospects for the near future.

The growth of the Cluster’s members varied between 0,5 % and 19 % in 2021. But it is true, 2022 might be more difficult due to the present geopolitical situation. The whole plastics sector is facing a number of challenges just like other manufacturing industries in global economies. Some of the most common – lack of raw materials and increasing prices of energy, materials, logistics and other services.

Nevertheless, Plastics Cluster’s companies continue running their business operations and with joint activities within the cluster are looking for consolidated efficient solutions to support their competitiveness, ensure present markets and find ways to enter new ones.

In 2021, cluster members, the 3D Creative company presented an innovation to its B2B clients: digitization of factories, buildings, bridges and other facilities (real estate as well as equipment), using 3D scanning and reverse-engineering.

How can you benefit from working with 3D Creative?

Companies want to update their production equipment or at least some part of it, and for that reason they need to have a drawing of the layout of the existing equipment. It is much more efficient and much faster to perform this task using 3D scanning instead of measuring by hand and creating a drawing manually.

Having a digital file, the client can arrange the planned new equipment in a 3D model, and the equipment manufacturer does not need to travel to the facilities (factory, workshop), perhaps even several times, to check and confirm the measurements. Everything is done in a digital environment. Human resources are saved, and the new equipment is installed faster.

It is very important that a lot of valuable time is saved and the highest level of precision is maintained, avoiding possible errors from manual measurement. The digitization of large spaces is already becoming the standard solution when performing measurements as well as when simulating potential changes in the arrangement of facilities, by preparing visualizations.

Exmples of 3D Creative projects:

• 3D scanning for factory premises 
• 3D scanning of chemical products 
• Reverse engineering