Tecnologia & Design supports the most innovative manufacturing companies in the various phases of product development, from the concept to the aesthetic and functional prototype and through the design and engineering phases of new products. We are a design department at the service of our customers, also thanks to sophisticated 3D CAD software tools used for the concept, solid modelling structural analysis and documents management.

We have in home all 3d printing plastics technologies, include SLA, SLS, FDM, Polijet and Vacuum Casting.

Tecnologia & Design is becoming a world-class technology park reference point for southern Europe as a member of Stratasys Global Manufacturing Network.
We have in home 1 SLA System (SLA 5000) with SOMOS EVOLVE 128 RESIN, 3 EOS SLS Systems (P390-P395), 3 Full Material FDM Stratasys Systems (F400-F450-F900), 1 Polijet J750 System and 1 MCP004 VC System.

We have also a 3D Scan, Reverse Engineering and Industrial Design Office.
. Our 3 most important areas are: training, prototyping and industrial design
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The Institute of Polymer Processing is researching all kinds of processes for processing thermoplastic polymers. The fundamental and application-oriented research is done in the fields of materials and the production processes. It is driven by the goal to gain a deeper scientific understanding and the systematic control of the processes for an economic production of ideal products with minimum resources. The funding comes from the government, different funding agencies or directly from the industry.

The services we provide, starts with the formulation of innovative tailor-made compounds, from producing small samples up to semi industrial scales. The properties of these compounds and polymers are characterised inline or offline so that all relevant material properties are available for further processes or fluid dynamic simulations and for understanding these processes. The results of these simulation can be validated in our laboratory with industrial equipment.

Questions arising during the development… The equipment at the Institute of Polymer Processing can be divided into laboratory scale and industrial equipment. For the characterisation of the polymers there are thermodynamically measurements as specific heat capacity, and density measurements available. The viscosity can be measured with rotational and piston driven rheometers, but also inline measurements for extruders, compounders and injection moulding machines are possible.

The compounds and the recycling can be done using kneaders for small scales and co rotating twin screw extruders for larger quantities. In extrusion we can provide a pipe and a film extrusion line, while other extruders are available for foaming (physical or chemical), for fluoropolymers and for filaments. Injection moulding machines are available in different sizes and one is especially equipped for Powder Injection Moulding. In Additive Manufacturing there are different material extrusion machines as well as an Arburg freeformer available.
. Our research focus is on the development and selection of suitable polymeric materials for new applications, the design and construction of plastic components and composites, the development, optimization and application of suitable processing technologies.

Material data for simulation, thermoplastics, rubbers and elastomers, WPC and PIM-Feedstocks
Process and simulation, component design, process development and robust process management
Testing and analysis, polymer selection, development, testing and identification
Sustainability, process analysis, Life Cycle Assessment
Custom tailor-made courses in education and training

 
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CATIE (Centre Aquitain des Technologies de l’Information et Electroniques), a non-profit organization created in 2014, is a technology transfer center specialized in digital technology. Its main mission is to support SMEs and intermediate size companies in their digital transformation and to help them adopt and integrate the related technologies.

Backed by a team of 40 employees (mostly PhDs and engineers), CATIE is closely connected with the local academic research centers it collaborates with on programs to prepare the technologies of tomorrow. Furthermore, CATIE works with regional companies, digital technologies experts (start-up to large companies…) and frequently participate in EU founded
projects.

Within its scope of services, CATIE shares its expertise but also human and material resources, that might be missing or undersized in the companies it works with, as well as a recognized industrial know-how in technologies integration to support their digital development.

CATIE offers an… https://6tron.io/homepage/

https://www.vaniila.ai/
. 3 TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION PLATFORMS

CATIE fulfils its missions by participating in research and transfer programs, but also by implementing open and collaborative “Technological Innovation Platforms”, i.e. experimental environment to develop and transfer new technologies to companies : 6TRON focuses on the Internet of Things while the two others address Artificial Intelligence (VANILLA) and Behavioural and Cognitive Assessments (PEAC²H) for a better integration of Human in the
acceptability of complex and innovative systems.

The Human-Centered Systems team is developing Peac²h to enable companies to better integrate Human being into complex and innovative systems by offering online services, tailor-made or turnkey assessment protocols and methodological tools, among other items.

The Algorithms and Data team has developed Vaniila to help companies access Artificial Intelligence by offering working and calculation environments including technological building bricks, use cases and tutorials to…. Yes. service.

Founded in 1995 as a Consortium formed by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Computer Vision Center is a non-profit institution located in the UAB’s Bellaterra Campus in Barcelona, Spain. With an outstanding team of more than 130 researchers and technicians, 2000 m2 devoted to R&D and the most advanced resources in hardware and software, the CVC now holds an international reputation for innovative research, technology transfer, and the development of spin-offs in the field of Computer Vision. Its mission is to develop prestigious research with international impact, to transfer knowledge to companies and society, and to train scientists and high-level professionals relevant in Europe.

The CVC performs exciting and pioneering research in Computer Vision, in particular in the following key areas: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Medical Imaging, Object Recognition, Document Analysis, Image Sequence Evaluation,  Colour in Context (Texture), Machine Vision,… The Computer Vision Centre has top-of-the-line computational infrastructure, necessary for the machine learning tasks of the projects. The CVC provides access to GPU clusters as well as GPUs for individual use by the researchers, for a total of  ~2,500 teraflops of deep learning horsepower. In addition, the computation resources include CPU clusters, networked and local (high-speed SSD) storage, and high-speed connectivity.

The Computer Vision Center is the host organisation of the Library Living Lab, 4-helix innovation ecosystem which links all the 250 Public Libraries in the Barcelona Provincial Network. The Library Living Lab is a unique infrastructure for citizen engagement and is the base for the Citizen Science actions associated to the Computer Vision Centre. The Library Living Lab is Member of the European Network of Living Labs, connecting more than 130 labs from 39 countries from Europe and the world. This endows the Library Living Lab with an effective power for scalability of innovation…. CVC provides several research and innovation services through strategic collaborations with small and key large international companies with the aim of doing state-of-the art research in computer vision, mainly in the fields of autonomous driving, medical imaging, media and future industry 4.0.

These collaborations are mainly based on:

Collaborative public and private research agreements with key industry partners.
Industrial doctoral degree.
Proof of concept with SME companies to boost digitisation of industrial processes to reinforce the competitiveness of local industrial network.

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KCL provides piloting and laboratory services in the field of biomaterial processing. We offer a unique pilot and laboratory scale environment for testing, production, scale-ups, demonstrations along with process design and construction located in a centralized site. KCL is an ideal platform for developing existing products and processes. It also serves as an innovative new product developer derived from furthering the science of paper and board. Biomaterial based new products can be found and developed through complete utilization of KCL’s advanced equipment and expertise.

Biomaterial processing and stock preparation equipment for

Slushing
LC refining
TMP/CTMP refiner
Screening
Thickening: Filter press, Disc filter, Drum filter, Screw press
Handling of materials (e.g. chemical treating, heating): 4mᵌ pressurized 8 bar reactor, Atmospheric tanks with mixers
Hot air dryer
Preparing and serving pulps for paper machine trials
Converting of all kinds of biomaterials for further processing
Steam heating
Automation system
Data acquisition system

Foam forming paper machine
Pilot coater equipped with

Roll applicator (blade/rod)
SDTA (blade/rod)
Optiblade +
Jet application (OpticoatJet) (blade/rod)
MSP (Opti-Sizer)
3-layer curtain
Spray +

Multical Optiload / supercalender
Printing park

Heatset web offset printing machine
Sheetfed offset printing machine
High Speed inkjet test printing line

Finishing

Winders
Guillotine
Sheet cutters

Wide range of laboratory…. KCL provides an infrastructure where customers can test their development ideas both in laboratory and in pilot scale. We are even able to tailor our processes with customers' own equipment. Our in-depth knowledge and expertise are included in the services we provide our customers. Our efficient staff has experience from different types of pilot or laboratory trials.

In pilot scale we can build process prototypes for new product development, or we can produce product prototypes that can be further refined in the following process steps in pilot or even in industrial scale. We are also able to provide small-scale production in order to support the market entry of a new product.

We serve all customers with the highest degree of integrity and confidentiality.
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Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is a private non-profit research foundation, established by the government of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy). It employs about 410 researchers, graduates, post-doc students, and visiting professors, and conducts research in several areas, organized in different research centers in both scientific and humanistic topics.

Throughout 50 years of history, FBK has developed a broad network of domestic and international alliances and partnerships, hosting and attending international congresses and conferences, publishing thousands of papers, dozens of patents and innovative ideas.

The Bruno Kessler Center in Information and Communication Technology (FBK-ICT Irst Center) focuses on high quality research with impact to market and society. FBK- ICT Irst (formerly simply called IRST) is an internationally renowned center established in 1986 for conducting research on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It was the first center in Italy fully dedicated to AI and it is still the… The Kore system is made up of about 1.436 cores (based on Intel Xeon processors) and 439TB of distributed storage, interconnected both among and within computers by a high speed network ranging from 1Gbit/s to 10Gbit/s with some branches running on InfiniBand, a low latency network featuring very high throughput. In the last years some node for GPGPU calculation are been installed: at the moment The Kore system has 6 nodes with two Nvidia Tesla K80 cards, 1 node with 4 Nvidia Tesla V100 cards and 1 node with 8 Nvidia GTX1080TI cards to perform parallel programming on the CUDA platform.

This is in a renovation phase, redefining technologies and structure.
. The Line offers an approach of research driven by technology transfer, following these phases: (i) direct research efforts on themes of practical relevance; (ii) develop support tools at high TRL; (iii) transfer the results in applicative setting; (iv) identify new themes of practical relevance.

Offered services are of design, prototyping, testing, validation and development of innovative solutions with specific attention for the fields of: Optical Metrology; Technologies of Vision; Machine Translation; Open IoT; Embedded Systems and Software Engineering.
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Wageningen Food & Biobased Research

Applied research for sustainable innovations in healthy food, fresh food chains and biobased products.

Wageningen Food & Biobased Research develops insights and technologies that support companies, governments and other research institutes in creating innovative solutions for a healthier, more sustainable and prosperous world. We partner in the creation and production of healthy and tasty foods, of truly-sustainable food chains, and in developing chemicals and materials that use biomass instead of fossil resources. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research also helps companies to close water and nutrient cycles thanks to smart, integrated solutions for water treatment and desalination. Our in-depth knowledge of the entire chain, from raw materials through processing to end product, drives our approach.

Our research programs

Our mission

Wageningen Food & Biobased Research is one of the Contract Research Organisations of Wageningen University & Research, with the… https://www.wur.nl/en/Value-Creation-Cooperation/Facilities/Wageningen-…
. Development, Testing, Research
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Inagro is a research and knowledge center, dedicated to susainable innovation in primary production. 

Geographically speaking, Inagro is located in the very intensive and innovation-driven agricultural and horticultural heart of the province of West-Flanders in Belgium. 

Within its own optimised professional research infrastructure, more than 220 specialized staff members develop new techniques and technologies, directly implementable in agrofood-industry. Inagro focuses on development of innovative production systems and agrofood chains, with implementation of smart farming technologies. Making agrofood production more climate resilient and integrated in the circular economy and development of solutions to reduce impact of agrofood production on the environment, are important scopes in our research. 

Inagro delivers services to industry and SME's in the field of co-creating, testing, validating and demonstrating new solutions and technologies. If desired by the client, we might use a living lab… The practice-driven nature of the research at Inagro requires the research projects to be implemented on an operational scale. 
Which is why Inagro has set up a small-scale yet professional operational infrastructure for various agricultural sectors at its site. 

The infrastructure is adapted to simultaneously test various objects in various repetitions on a certain scale size to ensure the test results are statistically underpinned. The available acreage at our sites is largely insufficient to perform all research. Which is why we also set up trial plots in-situ. To this end, Inagro runs a network of 80 trial plot holders which offers the added benefit that this enables us to conduct research on different types of soil. 

Greenhouse horticulture: 4,200 m² glass and 1,000 m² of plastic greenhouses + 8000 m² new infrastructure for high tech urban farming under developement (https://leden.inagro.be/agrotopia/)

Conventional produce in soil, hydroponics and vertical farming
Focus on lettuce, tomato…. Inagro delivers services to industry and SME's in the field of co-creating, testing, validating and demonstrating new solutions and technologies.

If desired by the client, we might use a living lab approach, involving end-users such as farmers and consumers through co-creation activities. 
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LIST develops competitive and market-oriented product/service prototypes for public and private stakeholders, and works across the entire innovation chain: fundamental and applied research, incubation, transfer of technologies. By transforming scientific knowledge into technologies, smart data and tools, LIST empowers citizens in their choices, public authorities in their decisions and businesses in their strategies. LIST is an active member of several European networks, including the European association of RTOs (EARTO)

Through its research into advanced materials and processes, the “Materials Research and Technology” (MRT) Department with is 170 researchers and engineers, to the emergence of enabling technologies that underpin the innovation processes of local and international industry. MRT’s activities hinge on three thematic pillars: nanomaterials and nanotechnology, sustainable composite materials and manufacturing and process technologies, including scientific instrumentation.

LIST-MRT is member… LIST’s Process Engineering and Prototyping Platform offers a unique variety of expertise and pools cutting-edge equipment for coating, thin films, particle engineering, nano-fabrication, prototyping and functional measurements

HPVD, HIPIMS (incl. wire treatment)
Atm. Plasma deposition (incl. wire treatment)
CVD, RTCVD, PECVD, OCVD
(DLI) MOCVD
ALD
PRAP-CVD
Electrochemical Replication ECPR
Sol-gel
Layer-by-Layer
Fluidized bed
Ink Jet printing

. The Materials Characterization and Testing Platform offers a wide range of standardized and made-to-measure services in: 

Molecular analysis
TOF-SIMS (Time-Of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, IonTOF)
High-Resolution Mass spectrometry (Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Elite), equipped with ESI, APCI, AP-MALDI, DART ionization sources
MALDI-TOF (Matrix-Assisted laser Desorption/Ionization - Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometer, Autoflex III Smartbeam, Bruker)
Gel Permeation / Size Exclusion Chromatography / HPLC automated gradient…. the department MRT (Materials Research and Technologies) propose to the industry a support in terms of development of new advanced materials (surface and interface modification / functionalization) , production technics (cold plasma, sol-gel, layer-by-layer,...) , characterization and testing of the materials
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ProM Facility is a technological infrastructure open to collaborations with the business world, research and training, to develop, produce, research and experiment innovative and more efficient products, able to combine traditional mechanics with the most advanced and sophisticated prototyping systems physical and virtual, testing and pre-qualification. The result of the collaboration between the Autonomous Province of Trento, Trentino Sviluppo, the Bruno Kessler Foundation, the University of Trento and Confindustria Trento, it provides the companies in the mechatronics chain with an integrated platform for the prototyping and qualification of mechatronic systems and subsystems. Thanks to the commitment of European regional ERDF funds, the Facility now has innovative machinery for the prototyping (mechanical, electronic and IT) of complete mechatronic systems, for a total value of over 6 million euros, including 3D printing metal and polymer, the laser cutting of pipes and plates, as well as advanced… ProM Facility main equipments:

3 x Metal 3D printers with various metal powders including AISI316L stainless steel, AlSi10Mg aluminium, Ti6Al4V titanium and Inconel 718 and 625
1 x CNC Hybrid 3D machine (lathe and a 5-axis milling machine integrated with an additive cast metal powder deposition system)
1 x stereolithographic 3D printer to print prototype components by solidifying polymeric resins with UV light
1 x 3D polymeric printer up to 280x280x350 mm volume, starting from various polymer powders including PA11, PA12, PA12+GB.
1 x combined tube/sheet metal laser cutting machine 5kW fiber laser, suitable for most metals used in the mechanical industry
1 x 4-axis wire EDM machine
1 x polymer laser cutting machine 
1 x tomographic X-ray machine to perform high-resolution geometric and dimensional analysis on a wide range of metallic and non-metallic materials, to analyze residual porosity and internal continuity of 3D molded parts.
2 x 3D scanners, one with laser blade projection…. ProM Facility has a trivalent function, divided into service, research and training. The service offer includes the advanced development and prototyping service of mechanical components and micro-electronic sensors (MEMS, micro electro-mechanical Systems). Upon request, the Facility can also manage the production of small series ("workshop" service) thanks to its technological equipment. On the research side, ProM Facility supports research projects funded (subcontract) in Horizon 2020, provincial (LP6) and other funding areas (regional and national). It offers company technical staff in the mechanical and mechatronic sector a refresher course, specialist "hands-on" training on machines in a dynamic and cutting-edge context and support in the field of prototyping, 3D printing and sensors. ProM Facility offers students and PhD students excellent research and training courses, research partners the possibility of creating synergy by putting transversal skills in the system and bringing the realization of…. Yes. service.