Ihobe – new collaboration partner in CPM

We will welcome Ihobe, our new collaboration partner in CPM. Ihobe is the Public Environmental Management Company, which belongs to the Ministry of Environment of the Basque Country. Ihobe has a unique engagement for business and environment and decided to set up an Ecodesign Center together with large companies in the Basque Country. This innovation hub is the outcome of a lot of work to find the best way of working in the field of Ecodesign, in order to consolidate Basque companies‘ competitiveness and encourage eco-innovation throughout the lifecycle of a product. Ihobe did an international benchmarking study and found CPM as an idyllic center, with long experiences and collaborations within the field of eco-innovation and sustainable innovation with a focus on products. Since a half year from now Ihobe and CPM have been supporting each other. Our collaboration gives us new international opportunities and a new way of working.

Bengt Steen and Sara Palander from CPM visited Ihobe in September 2011.