PELLINI SPA

Their core work

Pellini SPA is an Italian manufacturer of building envelope products — façades, cladding, and advanced external skin systems — that contribute to energy efficiency and healthy indoor environments in commercial and residential construction. They bring real industrial products into EU research consortia, serving as the industry partner that grounds theoretical innovation in manufacturable, deployable solutions. Their participation in Innovation Actions (not basic research) confirms they operate close to market: they test, validate, and refine envelope products under field conditions. Their work spans passive energy performance (adaptive RES-harvesting skins) and active measurement of building envelope contributions to nearly-zero-energy targets.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Pellini's earliest H2020 involvement (EnergyMatching, 2017) left no recorded keywords — the company was likely a product supplier within a broader research consortium, without a prominently defined technical sub-role. By their second project (MEZeroE, 2021), the picture sharpens considerably: keywords point to measurement and verification infrastructure, open innovation services, and a digital marketplace, suggesting the company moved from passive supplier to active contributor in product validation pipelines. The shift indicates a strategic step from making envelope products to also owning the methodology for proving their performance — a commercially valuable position as zero-energy building regulations tighten across Europe.

Pellini is moving toward owning the evidence base for their products — building out measurement, verification, and open-innovation infrastructure that lets them prove performance claims to regulators and buyers, not just manufacture products.

How they like to work

Pellini participates exclusively as a consortium partner and has never coordinated an H2020 project, which is typical for industrial manufacturers who join research consortia to validate products rather than to lead scientific agendas. Despite only two projects, they have engaged with 41 unique partners across 12 countries — a remarkably broad network that points to large, multi-partner Innovation Action consortia rather than tight bilateral collaborations. This pattern suggests Pellini is comfortable operating inside complex multi-stakeholder projects and contributes a well-defined industrial role (product supplier and test-case provider) rather than cross-cutting coordination.

Pellini has built connections with 41 distinct consortium partners spread across 12 countries through just two projects — an unusually broad reach that reflects the large pan-European Innovation Action consortia they joined. Their network is predominantly European, spanning multiple member states engaged in sustainable construction and zero-energy building research.

What sets them apart

Pellini's core value in any consortium is that they are an actual manufacturer — they bring physical, commercially available products into research settings, which is what moves Innovation Actions from prototype to market-ready. Unlike research institutes that study building envelopes theoretically, Pellini can supply real façade systems for pilot installations and field testing, making them indispensable for projects that need to demonstrate real-world performance. For a consortium coordinator building a project around nearly-zero-energy buildings or building renovation, Pellini closes the gap between material science research and deployable product.

Highlights from their portfolio

• MEZeroE
  Their largest project by EC funding (EUR 408,600, running to 2026), MEZeroE is notable for combining physical product validation with digital infrastructure — pilot measurement lines and a virtual marketplace — signalling Pellini's ambition to build a complete product-to-proof pipeline for nearly-zero-energy building envelopes.
• EnergyMatching
  Pellini's entry into H2020 (2017), this project established their credentials in adaptive RES-harvesting envelope solutions and placed them within a large European consortium tackling on-site renewable energy generation through building skins.