CATMARINE SRL

Their core work

CATMARINE SRL is an Italian SME based in Lecce that designs and manufactures work boat catamarans — specialist marine vessels used in professional and commercial maritime operations. Their core business is physical vessel production, and their participation in the INCAT project demonstrates active investment in improving their own manufacturing processes for these craft. By joining CloudiFacturing, a large-scale Innovation Action on cloud-based and predictive digital manufacturing, they brought real-world industrial manufacturing context to a consortium focused on digitizing production engineering. In practice, they likely served as an end-user testbed, piloting advanced production tools directly in their boat-building operations.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

CATMARINE's H2020 activity is concentrated entirely within 2016-2017, leaving very little timeline to trace genuine evolution. Their first project, INCAT, was tightly focused on their own product — improving how catamarans are built. Their second project, CloudiFacturing, represented a step outward into broader digital manufacturing territory, suggesting an appetite for applying Industry 4.0 tools to their production floor. No H2020 activity appears after 2017, so whether this digital manufacturing direction was sustained or was a one-off experiment cannot be determined from the available data.

The short trajectory points toward a manufacturing SME testing digital production tools against its boat-building operations, but with no post-2017 projects visible, it is unclear whether this direction was pursued further outside the H2020 programme.

How they like to work

CATMARINE has never coordinated an H2020 project, participating exclusively as a partner in both engagements. Their unusually high partner count (34 unique partners across 12 countries for just 2 projects) is almost entirely attributable to CloudiFacturing, which was a large multi-partner Innovation Action — CATMARINE joined as one of many industrial end-users rather than as a driving technical partner. This suggests they are most comfortable contributing domain-specific manufacturing knowledge within consortia that others organise and lead.

CATMARINE has formal H2020 connections to 34 unique partners spanning 12 countries, a breadth that far exceeds what 2 projects would normally imply and reflects the large-consortium structure of CloudiFacturing. Their geographic spread is European in name, but likely driven by consortium composition rather than pre-existing bilateral relationships.

What sets them apart

CATMARINE occupies a narrow but genuinely rare niche: a hands-on work boat catamaran manufacturer with direct experience as an industrial testbed in a major digital manufacturing research initiative. For a consortium that needs an authentic end-user from the maritime or small-vessel manufacturing sector, they offer operational credibility that academic partners cannot provide. Their SME status and southern Italian location may also be advantageous for projects targeting regional industrial development or Adriatic/Mediterranean maritime applications.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CloudiFacturing
  A large-scale Innovation Action on cloud and predictive digital manufacturing — CATMARINE's participation as an SME end-user gave them exposure to advanced production engineering tools well beyond their own sector niche, and accounts for nearly all of their recorded EC funding.
• INCAT
  Directly aligned with CATMARINE's core product line, this SME Instrument Phase 1 project signals that the company was actively investing in proprietary production innovation for work boat catamarans.