Komárom-Esztergom County Construction- Environment-Industrial- and Innovation Cluster
Supporting the local governments of small villages

Cluster, as a term and organization showed up on the horizon of Hungarian people’s minds just a few years ago. It means cooperation, an association that’s members form a community to attain overall objectives. Cluster KEMÉK was created by small- and medium sized businesses that are active in the field of construction and environment protection, aiming to enhance cooperation with each other and their markets. PetkovicsZoltán, father of the organization, PállJános, President and BércesLászló, Managing Director of KEM KlasztermenedzsmentKft, the founded executive body, share the most important information about the cluster.

Petkovics Zoltán, father of the cluster:

Our company is engaged in construction. This field is characterized by the cooperation of different businesses within the individual specializations. I’d been playing with the thought of bringing these small- and medium sized businesses together for a while. Because, passing down experiences and harmonization of professional work is very much in demand. Especially within the scope of a local government. Coordination of design and execution, or even coordination of different fields of the execution process often poses a problem, even on a city level, where local governments usually have their own technical staff.
Let alone in small villages, where own technical personnel is not available. Of course, the institution of advisory has been in operation, but experience shows that these services are built up in an ad hoc manner, most of the time without all sorts of systematic lookout. It is only question of experience, expertise and willingness to bring out the most of a small-village local government in terms of cost-efficient attainment of community goals. The board of representatives can’t be expected to make a complex analysis of the village’s development- and investment needs and linkages.
But, then, who is the one to establish the whats and the hows of the development? Reconstruction, insulation, installation of anew heating system, energy management, fresh technologies, environment protection, building of a wastewater system, road traffic - all interconnected. And the road from the drawing board to the opening ceremony is long and full of obstacles. My co-founders and I have been searching for the answer to problems like this. This is how we arrived to the conclusion that cooperation is necessary. Cluster KEMÉK is the manifestation of this cooperation.

Páll János, president of Cluster KEMÉK:

Members of the cluster are small- and medium sized businesses in Hungarian hands, with the scope of activities in construction and environment protection. Profiles of present cluster members (10 of them) cover the full construction industry, from design to execution. Members of the cluster aim to support each other by passing down experiences and information, to improve their possibilities to break in the market by cooperation and to provide customers with a reliable partner-alternative with guarantees.

Cooperation has many professional benefits: it enables access for small businesses to projects of a larger scale, as they can submit joint tender-applications, organize professional fora and, can act and appear together, including in the press, making their operation more cost-efficient. The most significant one of the many benefits is that members of the cluster work for the entire cluster, not only for themselves. This also means joint responsibility, resulting in a multiple quality guarantee for customers. A mistake or negligence of one cluster member jeopardizes the reputation and reliability of all other members. Therefore, a cluster is able to give the synergic guarantee of a community.

The writing was published in the magazine Régio Régia.

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