Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI) is a Spanish private Research & Technology organization located in Valencia, Spain. ITI is a Competence Centre in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), established in 1994. ITI is also the coordinator of the Data Cycle Hub (https://thedatacyclehub.com/), which is the reference one-stop shop DIH in the Valencia region to foster data driven and artificial intelligence-based innovation. The objective is to bridge the gap between research and industry, specifically SMEs, providing innovative solutions and services that require advanced data analytics, automatic learning and artificial intelligence.

ITI Research and Innovation activity is developed by a team of more than 200 technologists (researchers and technicians), and is focused on 6 main digital enablers around the DATA CYCLE, primarily Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, but also other key digital enabling technologies like Cyber Physical Systems, IoT, Cloud and High Performance Computing… ITI is located in CPI-Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovacion, a scientific park near the campus of Polytechnic University of Valencia and also in the Technologic Park of Paterna. ITI’s facilities are distributed in an area of 1700m2 and comprise meeting rooms, teaching labs, as well as laboratories for hardware, software testing, and prototyping. ITI has at its disposal different kind of conference rooms which could bring to organize conferences and large meetings: 4 conference rooms of 144 capacity each, 1 conference room of 288 capacity, 15 meeting rooms among 25-60 capacity and a teaching lab of 16 capacity.

Special mention to two main infrastructures:

ITI Big Data Space: Infrastructure, tools, and data for research and experimentation with Big Data technologies, which has been awarded with the European BDVA i-Space Silver label (http://www.bdva.eu/BDVA_labelled_i-spaces ). This infrastructure consists of: cluster with 2000+ CPU cores, 12+ GPU cores, 20+ TB RAM and huge storage capabilities,…. ITI provides the following services:

Research and development activities in cooperation with companies and under contract
Big Data deployment services
Cloud computing development and migration services
Route Optimization services
Demand forecasting services
Production planning services 
Communication networks design
Predictive maintenance for Industry
Zero defects in Industry
Advanced Diagnosis Services in Healthcase 
Cyber Physical Systems modeling and design
Software Quality Services
ICT updating services
Training
Intelligent Information Management
Technology Watch
Strategic Consultancy (Technology roadmaps, Strategic plans)
Specific ICT recruitment
Prototyping
Proof of concept
Access to Datasets
Access to infrastructures
Technologies detection and selection

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CIC energiGUNE (http://www.cicenergigune.com/en) is a non-profit energy research centre based in the Basque Country (Spain), inaugurated in 2011. CIC energiGUNE's mission is to play a leading role on the international scientific stage focused on basic research in energy related materials oriented to storage applications, contributing to industrial competitiveness through: excellent and breakthrough research; transfer of technology and knowledge to industry; coordination of Basque technology and research efforts in energy storage field.

CIC energiGUNE plays an important role in the strong Basque Network of Science, Technology and Innovation (RVCTI). The centre has the backing of public institutions, administrations and of companies directly related to the energy sector. Its objectives are strongly aligned with the Basque Country RIS3 priorities and the Energibasque strategy, which identifies storage as the central key to solve the future energy needs.

The services that CIC energiGUNE can provide to… A - Synthesis labs

B - Characterization platforms

Electron Microscope platform
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Thermal Analysis Platform
Surface Analysis Unit
Physical Properties Measurement System
X-Ray Diffraction Platform
General Techniques

C - Testing facilities

Dry Room / prototyping line
Testing laboratories (electrochemical and thermal loops)

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Composition studies for organic/inorganic materials in liquid/solid phase
Corrosion assessment
Adhesion evaluation
Degradation / failure mechanisms /effects of temperature
Structural analysis
Material performance

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Continuous Flow Chemistry enables researchers to both evaluate and produce synthetic intermediates and products that would otherwise be inaccessible using conventional batch techniques. The scale that reactions are performed on is key to harnessing the advantages of this technology which stem from the rapid mixing and efficient thermal transfer at the µm to mm scale.

Working closely together with the pharmaceutical and fine chemicals industry Chemtrix BV has developed a complete, easy to scale product portfolio for continuous processing from lab to industrial production scale. Our laboratory systems (Labtrix® and KiloFlow®) are based on glass reactors, selected due to chemical compatibility, familiarity to the synthetic chemist and optical transparency. Our system for industrial scale continuous manufacturing, Plantrix®, is based on 3M™ Silicon Carbide reactors selected for their superior chemical flexibility and high corrosion resistance. 

We combine expertise in the field of (chemical) engineering and chemistry to help our customers to benefit from Flow Chemistry. Our expertise enables us to offer scalable and flexible Flow Chemistry solutions. We focus on delivering the customer higher profits by accessing new chemical possibilities, via a safe and reliable scale-up from lab to production.

Chemtrix offers a total Scalable Flow Chemistry concept. The Chemtrix portfolio covers the total process from R&D to full scale production, using glass, metal and ceramic reactors.
. Ensuring the safe way from lab to production

We offer our expertise to ensure our Customers a safe and reliable way of accessing the benefits of Flow Chemistry within their Company. By offering a variety of Flow Chemistry Services, we can assist at all stages from lab to production. Chemtrix BV can assist with the development of new flow chemical routes, or even help to develop your chemical ideas into a feasible synthetic process. With our high level of expertise and experience, we can help when a Customer needs Flow Chemistry knowledge, equipment or man capacity. We offer a systematic, tailor made approach, which specifically addresses the needs of your Organization. The data provided can then be used to develop a successful business case.
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KONČAR – Electrical Engineering Institute, KEEI, www.koncar-institut.com, is the leading Croatian industrial institute involved in product certification, laboratory and on-site testing, and R&D in the fields of energy and railway. Apart from 10 well equipped laboratories with large number of accredited methods, KEEI offers proprietary solutions for different on-line monitoring systems (for transformers, electrical rotating machines, bay/switchyard), train control and management systems, modular platforms for configuring demanding embedded HW/SW systems (including safety related SIL4 platforms) as well as off-grid power supplies. KEEI has been involved in several European and national R&D grant schemes (HORIZON2020, EUREKA, Proof of Concept (PoC), ERDF etc.). KONČAR - Electrical Engineering Institute Inc. is organized in 6 departments and its premises occupy 13.000 m2.
In the frame of 6 departments, there are specialized R&D sub-departments and 10 well-equipped laboratories (out of which 7 are accredited according to EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard) that are used for performing commercial services of testing and diagnostics. In July 2014 KEEI became a Notified Body (No. 2494) of the European Commission for several important EC directives (for low voltage equipment, machinery, EMC, radio and telecommunications terminal equipment, appliances burning gaseous fuels, pressure equipment …).
The equipment regarding the laboratory tests provided by the Institute can be seen on the web-site

. The Institute provides a wide range of testing services in many laboratories:
1. High-voltage Laboratory (High voltage test on electrical equipment, Calibration of High Voltage Measuring systems)
2. High Power Laboratory (Current testing of electric power equipment and testing of conformity of electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits)
3. Electromagnetic Compatibility and Safety Laboratory (Testing of electromagnetic compatibility, radio and telecommunication equipment, safety of electrical and gas appliances, non-ionizing radiation and quality of electrical energy)
4. Calibration Laboratory (Calibration of measurement standards and electrical measuring instruments)
5. Laboratory for Physical and Chemical Testing (Testing of transformer oil)
6. Laboratory for Mechanical and Technological Testing (Testing of mechanical properties, Non-destructive testing, Testing of anticorrosive properties, Testing of environmental influence)
7. Laboratory for Noise and Vibration (Acoustical…. Yes. service.

At Flamac we have developed unique high-throughput platforms to accelerate materials R&D. These include accelerated synthesis, formulation, application and characterisation techniques. Flamac offers its service in either collaborative, multi-disciplinary research between industry, universities and research centres or contract research.

We combine our competences in high-throughput experimentation with a thorough understanding of our customers’ needs, across a variety of application areas and industries.

This enables both large corporations and small & medium sized companies to stimulate new product and process development and to shorten their time-to-market for new materials.
Flamac has different platforms at its disposal to fulfill its mission and to provide our partners with the most state-of-the-art capabilities to perform high-throughput research. Please click on the side-menu for more information on the different platforms.

– High-throughput synthesis
– High-throughput formulation
– High-throughput application
– High-throughput thin film deposition
– High-throughput screening

 
. Combinatorial experimentation is an experimental strategy that solves this dilemma through automation, miniaturisation and, more important, parallelisation of experiments. Using this strategy hundreds of experiments can be performed simultaneously or in very rapid succession, speeding up dramatically the time to discovery and product development. Today’s robotic handling in combination with rapid screening (measuring, analysing) methods, miniaturisation of testing, and application of data mining and statistical and visualisation tools, allow for rapid harvesting of useful data and a better understanding of the parameters relating to the synthesis of new materials and formulations, their properties and effects.

Specific equipment and software has been installed in order to enable experimental workflows in the areas of viscous formulations, high speed curable coatings and many more. Those workflows are the backbone for the platform on which Flamac will further build its expertise. End of 2007, Flamac…. Yes. service.

ACTPHAST, which stands for Access CenTer for PHotonics InnovAtion Solutions and Technology Support, is a unique one-stop-shop access centre for photonics innovation support of European industry, funded by the European Commission under FP7-ICT-2013-11 which commenced in November 2013 with a 48-month programme of work.

Building on the previous actions taken at European level to create networks of excellence in different areas of photonics, ACTPHAST successfully took on the challenge of establishing a highly effective and efficient one-stop-shop access centre, which combines the state-of-the-art expertise and technologies of 23 of the top research institutes in photonics from across the different European networks (the ACTPHAST Partners), centrally coordinated by the Brussels Photonics Team (B-Phot) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and rolling it out in large-scale to the broad base of European-wide industry.

As a result ACTPHAST offers a single entry point into a fully integrated supply chain across… ACTPHAST provides European SMEs from a wide variety of end-user industries with fast, flexible and targeted innovation support - 100% subsidized for SMEs - in the large domain of photonics, applicable to all sorts of different market applications, across all major photonics technology platforms as identified below:

1 Free-space photonic components and systems
2 Glass and polymer specialty fibers and fibre devices
3 Polymer-based photonic components and large-area organic-photonics
4 Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems
5 Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
6 InP-based Photonic Integrated Circuits
7 Si3N4 and SiO2 passive waveguide technologies
. The innovation projects with SMEs are utilizing the full spectrum of technology platforms and value-chain activities offered by ACTPHAST from modelling and design, to prototyping, characterization, packaging and integration, and finally reliability and testing.

ACTPHAST also provides linkages to pilot lines for first stage progression of new products into mass manufacturing.

Most of the ACTPHAST innovation projects entail multi-disciplinary teams of experts from more than one ACTPHAST Partner working in collaboration together and with the companies’ own R&D personnel.. Yes. service.

The Fraunhofer IAP in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, offers a broad range of research on polymers. We work on biobased and synthetic polymers that meet the growing demands of our partners. The end products are

becoming more durable and stable, more acid and heat resistant, easier to care for, healthier, more environmentally-friendly, more cost-effective ... as well as easier and more energy efficient to manufacture.

We develop innovative and sustainable materials, processes and products that are specifically tailored to the application’s requirements. We also create conditions which ensure that the developed methods not only work on a laboratory scale, but also under production conditions

pilot-plant for viscose, Blaschke
wet spinning line
Lyocell laboratory spinning plant
Fourné bicomponent spunbond plant (3 kg / 1 kg) for takeoff speeds up to max. 1800 m/min
stabilization and carbonization unit for carbon fiber development
equipment for Extrusion/compounding/recycling, injection molding, blow molding etc.
lab facilities for the characterization of thermo-mechanical properties
modern polymer synthesis labs
pilot-line for printed organic electronics
miniplant facility for PLA synthesis with lactic acid used as feedstock
membrane casting machine for flat sheet membranes with 40 cm width
stainless steel bioreactors: 3x 2 liter, 1x 10 liter, 1x 100 liter working volume with exhaust gas analytics and process analytics
modern multifunctional pilot plant for low- and high-viscosity polymer syntheses (−1 to 100 bar and 5 to 350 °C) with 15 main reactors (50 to 870 L)
vertical and horizontal prepreg-lines

. synthesis of polymers and additives, formulation/blending, processing from melt and solution, scale-up activities up to pilot plant scale, prototyping development and testing, wide range of analytical services
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The Footwear Technology Center of La Rioja (CTCR) was constituted in July 2006 as a private non-profit association for the promotion, research, development and technological innovation of the footwear industry in La Rioja.

Located in the industrial town Arnedo, the Footwear Technology Center of La Rioja serves as the hub of the sector and the area, providing with its special design and architecture, one of the best facilities in the north of Spain. The Center integrates equipped labs as well as rooms specially designed for trainings, seminars, congresses, business meetings, etc.

Our mission is:

Research, development and innovation to create added value for business.
Improvement of the competitiveness of the industry, at a national and international level.
Specialization in giving comprehensive solutions to businesses (more than 10 years of experience managing projects for the future).

The CTCR has more than 110 partners, of which 80% are footwear manufacturers or distributors and 20% are… The Footwear Technology Center of La Rioja (CTCR) has 5 research departments with their appropriates laboratories and work areas:

Nanotechnology and New Materials.

Cost reduction and production increase through nanomaterials.
Shape memory polymers.
Intelligent materials that change color under certain external stimuli.
Microcapsules containing active substances.
Energy efficiency technologies.
Additives and new polymers capable of self-regenerating.
Technical improvements through new materials or nanotechnology: slip resistance, fireproof, antibacterial, impact resistance, electrical conductivity...  
Chromatography.
Rubber mixer.
Hydraulic press.

Mechanics and Prototyping:

Rapid prototyping.
3D printers.
3D digitalization of models.

Electronics and Automation.

Development of wearables.
Technological automation and process controls.
Collaborative robots
Tracking technologies.
Production, stocks and…. The Footwear Technology Center of La Rioja (CTCR) offer the following services:

Sustainability

LCA and ecodesign.
EU Ecolabel for footwear.
Corporate Social Responsability.
Carbon footprint.
Accoustic emissions control.

ICTs & Industry 4.0:

360º product photography.
Development of wereables.
Automation and process control technologies.
Intelligent and electronic textiles.
Tracking technologies: production, stock and logistics control using RFID.
Technologies for sensorisation, geolocation or intercommunication.
Virtual 3D catalogues.
Online shops.
Online backup.
Virtual reality and.
Augmented reality on smartphones apps.
Soldering station.

Advanced materials nanotechnology:

Nanocomposites.
Impact energy absorbing materials.
Bactericidal materials.
Microencapsulation of substances.
Shape memory polymeric materials.
Self-reparing materials.
Synthesis and use of ionic liquids.

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CTCV is a technological centre focused on the development of technical and technological capabilities of construction industries, namely ceramic, and has an extensive experience in developing multifunctional, added value ceramic materials. CTCV has a large experience participating in national and European R&D projects.

Its main goals may be summarized as: to provide technical and technological support to these industries; to promote the development and quality of industrial products and processes; to promote highly specialized training to industry personnel; to divulge scientific, technical and technological information; to carry through and promote research, development and demonstration work, considering the scientific and technological progress of the ceramic, cement and glass materials processes and products and also other activities involving the built environment (Habitat).

CTCV has close links with several Universities and Research Centers, both in Portugal and abroad and has extensive… CTCV - Capacities/equipments/techniques available

X-ray diffraction (XRD)

The mineralogy of the samples will be performed carried out by X-ray diffraction (XRD), in a X-ray diffractometer of brand PANalytical (model with X’Pert-Pro), with X-ray bulb of ceramic insulator and copper anticathode (Cu). The apparatus is equipped with a vertical goniometer -2, with a programmable divergence slit system, ultrafast detector (model X’Celerator), antiscatter automatic slit, with sample rotation system. The equipment have an acquisition and data processing software, being the data processing made by the module Highscore Plus, which is coupled to ICDD database, integrated in module X’Pert PRO.

This analysis will be performed on a mounting of non-oriented aggregates, after drying the sample at 40-50ºC, grinding and passing the sieve of 75 µm (# 200 ASTM).

Fluorescence Spectrometry X-rays (XRF)

The chemical quantitative analysis of clay will be carried out after drying of the material at 100-110ºC,…. CTCV develops services in Research and Development in New and advanced Materials and Products including:

Development and optimization of materials, products and manufacturing processes.
Development of shaping technologies for ceramic materials, namely injection molding processes.
Innovation in high performance and multifunctional ceramic materials
Characterization of raw materials and end materials.

Materials: Nanomaterials, ceramics, coating, filled polymer and composites.

Processes: Compounding, injection moulding, ceramic processing, sintering

Testing of New Materials: Chemical, mechanical, microstructural analysis, rheology, test sample production; Hydrofilicity and hydrophobicity surface analysis SELFCLEAN

Others services:

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies - Use of additive manufacturing technologies for ceramic tableware and decorative development
Robotics – soon

More information: https://www.ctcv.pt/index_eng.html
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RECENDT, the Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH is a non-university based research company in Austria.

As an internationally well recognized Research Center for Materials Characterization and Non-Destructive Testing & Measurement, RECENDT operates very successfully on the Austrian and international market since 2009.       

RECENDT gained internationally acknowledged reputation as partner as well as coordinator in numerous national, EU- and international projects. The company is well established as a popular partner for local SMEs as well as multinational enterprises.

Fundamental Research & Industrial Solutions:
Our range of services incorporates the whole R&D process chain and stretches from application-oriented fundamental research to the development of state-of-the-art technology for industrial applications.

 
Partners from Industry as well as from Research are kindly invited to browse our competencies, technologies and equipment - and to get in contact with us, to identify the ressources to serve you best!

Use our OCT systems to gain deeper insights in, e.g., polymer materials and plastics components.

OCT - Optical Coherence Tomography provides 3D-images of inner structures in IR-semi-transparent materials in Real-Time. Resolution is about one micrometer.

Take equipment available in our IR- & Raman-Spectroscopy - Labs to discover chemical information from various materials and objects.

Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy can be applied in many variations to get information on chemical composition of substances (solid or liquid) or to characterize surfaces or to measure the thickness of films and coatings.

Utilize our LUS-Setups to measure on metals and CFRP.

LUS - Laser-Ultrasound is a high-resolution and completely contact-free method of ultrsound testing. It can be applied…. RECENDT provides various opportunities for cooperation:

Experts advice for industrial partners and SMEs on problems in the field of NDT
Testing Services and demonstration of available technology in our labs
Feasibility studies demonstrating the applicability of NDT-technologies
Development of NDT-solutions for industrial application at partners' sites
Joint research in collaborative projects, e.g., H2020

 
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