EU-funded projects
Mecânica Exacta has carried out investment and internationalisation projects co-financed by the European Union. The official disclosures are reproduced below.
Inovação Produtiva
- Operation code
- NORTE-02-0853-FEDER-033040
- Main objective
- TO 3 — Strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs
- Region of intervention
- Norte
- Beneficiary
- Mecânica Exacta, S.A.
- Approval date
- 22/02/2018
- Start / end
- 24/06/2017 — 23/06/2019
- Total eligible cost
- €1 294 264,19
- EU financial support (FEDER)
- €517 705,68
- National/regional public support
- Not applicable
Objectives, activities and expected/achieved results
- Significantly improve the production process to cut costs by reducing non-quality.
- Increase production capacity by eliminating assembly steps.
- Shorten delivery lead times.
- Respond to the growing need for timely, precise production information — progressing up the value chain.
- Develop new products/components for metal-forming solutions tailored to specific customer needs.
- Expand activity through active commercial prospection in export markets and participation in international reference fairs.
- Strengthen the company’s innovation capacity and remain a permanent value creator.
- Foster staff motivation and productivity, and maintain a solid, flexible organisation.
Projetos Individuais — Internacionalização
- Operation code
- POCI-02-0752-FEDER-012993
- Main objective
- TO 3 — Strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs
- Region of intervention
- Norte
- Beneficiary
- Mecânica Exacta, S.A.
- Approval date
- 26/01/2016
- Start / end
- 07/10/2015 — 06/01/2018
- Total eligible cost
- €346 499,18
- EU financial support (FEDER)
- €155 924,63
- National/regional public support
- Not applicable
Objectives, activities and expected/achieved results
- Adopt an active commercial policy based on prospection in export markets — the Czech Republic, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, France and Spain — visiting clients and potential clients and exhibiting at international reference fairs.
- Build on staff qualification for those markets.
- Foster staff motivation and productivity.
- Increase business volume and the volume of exports.
PRODUTECH R3 — Recuperação · Resiliência · Reindustrialização
Mobilising Agenda of the Production Technologies sector for Reindustrialisation.
- Project no.
- C645808870-00000067 (investment project no. 60)
- Consortium leader
- COLEP Packaging Portugal, S.A.
- Beneficiary
- Mecânica Exacta, S.A.
- Approval date
- 15/09/2022
- Start / end
- 01/01/2022 — 31/12/2025 (48 months)
- Total investment
- €166 988 013,71
- Incentive
- €97 111 730,27
- Beneficiary investment (Mecânica Exacta)
- €1 534 859,45
Description
The PRODUTECH R3 innovation pact is a strategic, integrated initiative to drive a structural change in Portugal’s Production Technologies sector — enabling its green and digital transition, reducing external technological dependence and increasing the value generated in the country. Built on a partnership of 108 companies and entities, it foresees the collaborative development of 85 new products and services and their demonstration in more than 52 pilots, across education and training, internationalisation, dissemination and sector capacity-building.
Financed by the European Union — NextGenerationEU, through the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR — recuperarportugal.gov.pt).