The DITF Denkendorf are the largest textile research center in Europe. Three research areas, Textile Chemistry and Chemical Fibers, Textile and Process Engineering and Management Research, cover the entire textile value chain from molecule to product.

DITF was founded in 1921 as a foundation of public law, and performs interdisciplinary, public research (regional, national and EU) and industrial projects and services for all organizations involved in fibers and textiles in many sectors (e.g. mobility, construction and architecture, health care and medicine, fashion and functional clothing, interior and outdoor objects, and energy, environment and resource efficiency).

DITF conduct research on new high-performance fibers and materials, on new and adaptive processes in fiber and yarn production, and in textile finishing and textile functionalization. In all research areas, modern and cutting edge technologies are used; in addition, the potential of digital information and communications technologies are… DITF facilities comprise newest equipment and machinery in laboratories and pilot plants for research, development, upscaling as well as for testing and simulation of new fibers and textiles and related processes and new machinery for

Polymer synthesis
High Performance Fibee Centre (carbon fibres, ceramic fibers)
Extrusion
Spinning line and winding
Weaving (3D, multiaxial) and knitting (fully fashioned, circular)
Nonwovens
Surface functionalization, finishing and digital printing
Cutting and making up
Stitching
Composite, tape laying
Braiding, pultrusion
Recycling
Digital Textile Micro Factory
Simulation and Testing

. DITF offer their labs, pilot plants and expertise for research, development, industrialization and partly for small series production towards industry, in particular to SMEs. Services cover for example development and configuration of new fibers, new yarns and filaments, new fabrics and nonwovens. Consultancy services are also offered, related to production process reorganization, business process optimization, digitization and simulation.

The testing laboratories offer a wide range of test of fibers and textiles, including tests related to biological, chemical and environmental characteristics.

DITF is organizing conferences, seminars, workshops and training events, is publishing the research results and informing with newsletter. DITF are auditing companies, and participate in standardization activities.
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Dekonta is an international Czech supplier of environmental technologies and services. It operates in various fields like contaminated sites management, waste management, water and waste water treatment, waste gas treatment, chemical and microbiological analysis, demolition and industrial cleaning services.

Due to a long term view of its business, Dekonta invests an important percentage of its turnover into R&D with a long-standing tradition. 

R&D activities are oriented mainly on perspective technologies, procedures and equipment for commercial application. Our technology center focus its research on the following topics:

(i) In situ Decontamination of Groundwater (such as ISCO/ISCR, Nanotechnologies, Hydraulic Fracturing Enhanced Remediation or Thermally Enhanced Anaerobic Dechlorination);

(ii) Advanced Physico-Chemical Methods for Soil and Water Treatment (photochemical oxidation, electrocoagulation of heavy metals, thermal desorption using microwave heating or membrane contactors for organic… • Technology Laboratory, Slaný – this facility focuses on research and development to treat wastewater and emissions, process waste and remediate contaminated sites using quarter- and half-scale operations. The facility is equipped to carry out basic operations to prepare and process tested samples. If necessary it is possible to carry out simple orientational chemical analyses on site. In the main laboratory building there is a vacuum thermal desorption unit with batch capability and a three-phase centrifuge. Also in this building is a half-scale mixer, pelletizer and hydrocyclone. In the newly acquired hall units have been installed for continual thermal desorption, waste scouring and activated carbon recovery. Technology for treating wastewater and atmospheric emissions is concentrated at the workplace by the decontamination area. Here there are also rooms to conduct quarter-scale and half-scale testing – especially column tests, biofiltration tests, scrubbing and catalytic oxidation of gases and air,…. A description of the services has been provided in the previous field. Additional info can be found at Dekonta's website (www.dekonta.com) at the R&D section.
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Seamthesis Srl is a privately owned R&D and Competence Center as well as Research Body and Innovative Start-up based in Italy, highly specialized in metallic and non-metallic materials, fabrication processes and production technology, advanced characterization and performance assessment of products and systems. Found in 2013 by R&D experts, as the crown of more than total 200 years worldwide activity in the Industry R&D and international R&D centers, Seamthesis has been developing to include (among its competencies and know-how): 

Alloy design of metal and non-metal alloys, intermetallics, ceramics and refractories, advanced polymers, nanostructured materials and functional materials (e.g. graphene) 
Material production and characterization at the lab level in small, medium and large-scale conditions 
New fabrication processes and production technologies, including post-processing, in a full through-process approach 
Turnkey solutions deployment at client’s industrial site and tailoring 
… Many simulation codes and tools, both commercial and proprietary (home-made), for FEM/FEA, CAD/CAM, CFD (Comuputational Fluid-Dynamics) and finite differences modeling and analysis

HPC (High Power Computing) capacity, also for parallel calculation

N.1 EOS M290 DMLS-type 3D printing machine (metal powder)

N.1 CREATBOT 3D printing machine (plastics and techno-polymers)

Small metallographic laboratory for optical analysis, preparation and hardness intentation tests  
. Main services provided to SMEs', Industry, Public and Government Institutions; R&D Centres and Universities, Engineering companies:

1) metallurgy and material science (from alloy design to prototyping, from base characterization to performance assessment in real conditions, scaling up to industrial maturity and deployment, failure analysis)

2) simulation and modeling, both (new) materials, products and processes

3) development and deployment of new / innovative production technologies and related processes

4) training (room/frontal, on-the-job, in-field), publication and dissemination

5) Application Engineering (automotive, railway and naval; aerospace; oil&gas; power generation (fossil, renewable and nuclear); metals&mines; mechanics and industrial; bioengineering; luxury and fashion; food&beverage)  

6) Additive Manufacturing technologies and Powder Metallurgy

7) Surface Engineering (including cladding)

8) Patenting (and IPR-related issues).     

Seamthesis’ main core competences…. Yes. service.

EnergyLab is a private technology centre specialised in energy efficiency and sustainability. It is a non-profit private entity set up on 2008 as an initiative of the industry and the Regional Government. EnergyLab identifies, develops and promotes technologies, processes, products and consumption behaviours able to contribute to the improvement of the energy efficiency and sustainability through its applications in industry, domestic products, mobility and buildings. In 2014, EnergyLab was recognised as National Technological Centre by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and it is member of ATIGA (Galician Technological Alliance). The technological aspect of the centre’s activity covers four main areas: - Bioenergy: this area develops projects related to different kind of renewable and alternative energy such as: biogas, biomass, geothermal, wave energy, etc. - Sustainable Mobility: electric mobility, gas mobility, etc. - Efficient Buildings: this area integrates the energy efficiency and renewable… EnergyLab laboratories include high-tech equipment and offer their services to develop R+D+I projects related to the recovery of organic and biomass waste together with new biofuels testing for transport.

*Mobility: EnergyLab has specialised equipment which allows the centre to research on the alternative mobility area. As far as alternative fuels are concerned, there is a test bench to characterise the performance of gas fuels. It includes a dualised diesel cycle motor and an Otto cycle engine with biofuel system. Both of them are completely sensorised and include emissions measuring systems. In addition, there is also a gas mixer which allows to synthesise mixtures composed by up to 5 gases. In terms of electric mobility, the centre owns equipment to characterise the performance of batteries, charge and discharge, deep discharge and determination of capacity. The engine test bench for new fuels is equipped with a regenerative braking system and two combustion engines (diesel and petrol), stacks of…. *Laboratory Services:

Characterisation of Electrical Energy Accumulation Systems
Characterisation of Organic Waste and Determination of Potential -Advanced Engineering in Anaerobic Digestion and Biomethane Production Processes
Characterisation of Biomass Fuels for Their Improvement by the Selection of Additives and Biomass Energy Valuation
Use of Alternative Fuels in Internal Combustion Engines

*Diagnosis and Energy Management:

Pre-audit and Detail Energy Audits
Compressed Air Networks Audits
Implementation of Platforms to Monitor Energy Consumption
M&V Energy Savings - Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the ISO 50001 Standard
Fleet Audit

*Simulation: 

Building Energy Simulation
CFD Simulation
Life-cycle analysis (LCA)

* Other services:

Monitoring Researches and Technological Analysis
Property Engineering
Training courses for EVO certification level
Training courses for Energy Auditors
Course on the Use of Measurement Equipment and…. Yes. service.

The CETI is a research center at the service of enterprises to encourage and accelerate innovation. It is a place to design, experiment, prototype and industrialize new products, materials and process adapted to the global textile industry.
The CETI collaborates with  producers, major brands and distributors of fashion, sports, luxury and technical textiles. 

The aim of the CETI is to respond to societal challenges related to sustainable development in order to transform the entire industry : 

Minimize it's environmental footprint,
Making smart technologies accessible,
Integrate digital transformation into business lines,
Promoting good living, 
Developing value ecosystems,
Deploy new business model ( economy of functionality , circular economy).

CETI has equipment in the following 4 platforms : 

THE TEXTILE PLATFORM - FASHION DESIGN 4.0

Co-creation workshop : Encourage creativity.
Prototype workshop : Make the access to technology easier in the aim to focus on the creation.
Connected shop : Discover the equipments to improve the customer experience.
 

THE NONWOVENS PLATFROM

Melt channel 

Spunbond 
Meltblown​​​​​​

Dry channel

Carde
Airlay

Nonwoven web consolidation

Spunlacing
Needling loom
Flat Oven
Calender
 

THE MONO, BI and TRI-COMPONENT SPINNING PLATFORM 

Compounding
Melt - spinning
Crimping / Cut
 

THE RECYCLING PLATFORM

Inauguration in Septembre

 
. The CETI guides companies in their product development projects offering solutions to a large levels of needs : 

Building the projects 
Developing new products
Improving innovation
Prototyping products 
Optimizing the processes
Developing skills
 

The CETI proposes to support companies in their efforts to integrate environmental requirements in order to reduce their impacts and promote the emergence of a circular economy and a functional economy

Eco - conception
Recyclability
Upcycling & Downcycling
CSR and traceability
 

The CETI has also created an experiential 4.0 workshop space, digitized from design to prototype and using the customer experience in store. 

Design and co-creation of materials and products. 
3D collaboration - Products developments
Customization / Industrialization 
Retail / Customer experience

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The Technology Centre of Metal-mechanical and Transport (CETEMET) is a non-profit foundation. The centre is managed by a private foundation made up by 20 entities including companies in the metal-mechanical and transport sectors, public bodies, savings banks, universities and business associations. Our mission is to strengthen our role as a technology, smart business and advance infrastructure centre, performing as an accelerator within competitive sectors in the metal-mechanical and transport industries in Andalusia.

CETEMET aims at fostering economic development in Andalusia by means of promoting and improving innovation in companies within the metal-mechanical and transport industries. The centre focuses on promotion and technology development in two core ideas: technology services and R&D&i projects.

The centre has focused on Industry 4.0 for Metal-mechanic and Transport sectors through these 4 technological areas:

Industrial automation. We use computerized and electro-mechanical components … CETEMET possesses a Visual computing lab, Automation and Robotics equipment and software, Metrology lab, Climate tests lab, and design, modelling, programming and FEM software.

The equipment of Visual computing labs comprises 3D scanners, cams, and devices for VR/AR such as glasses, tablets, etc. 

The automation and robotics equipment is composed of PLCs, robots, electronics, artificial vision cams, scanners, etc., and software for programming and simulation

The Metrology lab is composed of a high accuracy 3D laser scanner, torque wrenches calibration unit, dial gauge calibration units, linear, angle and flatness gauge blocks, roundness tester measuring shapes-position and other specialized metrology instruments. 

The Climate testing equipment and facilities comprise climate simulation chamber of large dimensions, climate chambers, thermographic camera and HFM.

Regarding to Design and FEM equipment, CETEMET has many workstations and CAD software licenses for mechanical and electrical design,…. CETEMET has the capacity to develop R&D&i projects and to offer services in the next technological areas:

Industrial automation: Collaborative robots, Process automatization, Flexible manufacturing cells, Expert system.

Virtual reality: Presentation and product customization, Simulation of industrial enviroment, Workers training.

Augmented reality: Guide to manufacturing processes and industrial maintenance, Connectivity worker-factory, Work safety.

Process control: Lean manufacturing, Quality control by artificial vision digitized 2D & 3D, Sensorisation and monitor, Cloud computing, Data intelligence analysis (Big data).

Process and product engineering: Product engineering, Simulation, Reverse engineering, Process engineering.

The Metrology lab allows to perform services like 3D digitizing for dimensional control and reverse engineering, devices calibrations, comprehensive management of measuring devices, study on metrology needs, specific calibration plans set up,…. Yes. service.

Lurederra Foundation for Technical and Social Development (LUREDERRA) is a non-profit, private Technological Centre created in June 1999 by the association of several public authorities, financial organizations, RTD organizations and companies in diverse productive fields, totalling more than 20 independent entities. LUREDERRA performs activities of RTD on behalf of the industries and other economical agents within its sphere of influence, followed by implementation of the innovations developed at their production sites. The organization is a Spanish CIT (Centre of Innovation and Technology) recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Science with the number 98. Main RTD fields where LUREDERRA is active are:

- Nanotechnology: LUREDERRA is a reference in the manufacturing of simple and complex nano-oxides with small sizes and high purity. The Centre counts on a state-of-the-art in pyrolysis nanoparticle production plant with a capacity for continuous operation up to 1 kg/h and lab-scale facilities (from 10 to… Nanomaterials and coatings:

- FSP reactors at lab scale (10 g/h, 100g/h) and pilot scale line (up to 1kg/h)

- Lurederra counts with different reactors for nanodispersion and nanocoating manufacturing:

Laboratory scale reactors (1-20 litres)

Pilot scale reactors (50-1000 litres)

Dispersion lines at lab scale (30L/h)

Dispersion lines at pilot scale (100L/h)

- Sonotrodes

- Dispersion mill DYNO-MILL MULTI LAB

- Planetary ball mill Pulverisette 6

- Rotary evaporator

- BET surface area analyzer

- Viscosimeter and calorimeter

- Z-sizer nanoparticle analyzer

- Contact angle

- Abrasion tester

- Transtech spray-gun

- MOTOMAN MH6 Robot

- Salt Spray Chamber

- Optical Microscopy

- Dip coating system

- Pipe coating line.

Composites:

- Lines for film blowing and injection (60Tn)

- Blown extrusion

- Lab rollers IQAP- LAP, Hydraulic press Agme PH-40 up to 40 Tn.

- Single and twin-screw extruders (up to 150 kg/h).

-…. •Internal research activities for the development of technologies and products: RESEARCH FOR EXPLOITATION, diverse active formulations are becoming market products by the sale or transference of technology

•Participation and coordination in collaborative projects at national and international level

•RTD developments with private companies

•Investment in new commercialisation routes, creation of Spin-off companies:  The concept of technological centre transformed into “production entity” .  First case in 2007, Tecnología Navarra de Nanoproductos S.L. (TECNAN) production and commercialisation of nanoproducts at industrial scale
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CENmat is a young and innovative chemical engineering spin-off from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) offering a broad range of services ranging from consultation, contractual research to nanomaterial synthesis, upscale and nanomaterial integration.

CENmat started as a nanomaterial company offering highly specialized and custom-tailored nanomaterials applying a holistic approach to fully understand the needs of our customers to design and synthetize the best fitting nanomaterials for their special product or technology.

Due to the proximity of the nanomaterials to other fields and applications and our expertise in these fields such as fuel cells, electrolysers, and other electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies we quickly broadened our services offering contractual research in these areas too. Today CENmat is engaged in multiple research consortia and contractual research projects.

CENmat is a spin-Off company from the German Aerospace Center and thus in a close relationship… - Electrochemical testing equipment for fuel cell, electrolyser and electro catalyst research

- Coating equipment (screen coating, dry spraying, ink jet coating)

 
. - Consultation (Nanomaterials for green electrochemical technologies)

- Material design, synthesis and upscale of production (metal based nanomaterial)

- Nanomaterial integration

- Design of novel electrochemical membrane reactors and development

 
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National Institute of Biology (NIB)  is the third largest public research institute in natural sciences in Slovenia. NIB has had a remarkable track record in the fields of general biology, plant physiology, organismal biology, ecology, and environmental protection biomedicine and biotechnology since its establishment in 1960.

NIB maintains strong collaborations with Slovenian and international industry and research institutions in the fields of pharmacy, biotechnology, agriculture, food and environment, including marine sciences.

Highly skilled scientific and professional staff have up-to-date and advanced research instrumentation and facilities at their disposal. The institute holds ISO 9001 certificate for management. Some analytical laboratories of NIB are also operating in compliance with the ISO/IEC 17025 standard. NIB is government authorized state Laboratory for Plant Health and National Reference Laboratory for GMOs. NIB is nominated state representative in European Plant Protection… QUANTITAVIVE ANALYSES OF NUCLEIC ACIDS

Real-time PCR and Digital PCR platforms.

Next-generation sequencing platforms.

EQUIPMENT FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS

Transmission electron microscope (Philips CM100) with CCD cameras

Detailed equipment information:

www.nib.si/eng/index.php/infrastructure/raziskovalna-oprema
. Services in Agricultural Industry 

Detection of Microorganisms – plant pathogens: viruses, viroids, bacteria, phytoplasmas.

Toxicology studies for agrochemicals and biocides.

Ecotoxicity studies and aquatic and terrestrial organisms biomonitoring.

Activity assessment of antimicrobial substances.

Services in Pharmaceutical, Food and Biotechnology Industry

Systems biology studies of production cell lines.

Nucleic acid detection and quantification, residual DNA detection.

Electron microscopy imaging of target microorganisms and bio-molecules.

Concentration and purification of viruses, phages and VLPs.

Quantification of viruses for gene therapy/vaccines, bacteriophages in product development.

Bio-compatibility assessment of medical devices.

Environmental Monitoring and Water Services

Validation of water purification methods (inactivation and removal, fllters efficiency, toxicology and microbiology, including viruses).

Ecotoxicology testing on algae,…. Yes. service.

Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research aims to contribute to the competitiveness and efficiency of Hungarian companies by providing services in innovation and technology transfer in cooperation with Hungarian and foreign partner institutions. We offer our customers – currently more than 200 companies – complex scientific and technological solutions in several areas of expertise, devised in a way to enhance their competitiveness.

We cooperate with institutions of the public sector, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and universities, and their respective research institutes. For these partners, we also act as innovation intermediaries through our applied R&D and technology transfer activities. As a think tank with a strong team of researchers and experts, we are able to meet the research and development needs of the industry from an idea’s conception to its realization at a high level of expertise. We actively participate in building international consortia, networking, and EU tenders in the field… Laboratories of Bay Zoltán

Industrial Laser Technology Laboratory
Environmental Protection Laboratory
Secondary Raw Materials Laboratory
Fermentation laboratory
Mechanical Testing Laboratory
Mechatronics Laboratory
Nanomaterials Laboratory
Nanochemistry Laboratory
Non Destructive Materials Testing Laboratory
Software Centre
Virtual Reality Laboratory

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Material and technology development

Material development, joining, machining and coating technologies
Development of industrial laser technology and production
Engineering modeling
Technological modeling

Biotechnology

Environmental Protection Microbiology

Electronics, IT

Hardware development
Software development

Logistics

Optimization of production processes
Route optimization
LCA analysis

Operational safety

Operational safety and lifetime analyses
Technical risk management
Complex failure analysis, modelling and tests of damage processes

VR/AR

Training Platform
Facility and work environment virtualization

Material characterisation

Mechanical and non-destructive material tests
Material structural testing
Electrochemical tests
Analytical tests

Innovation services

Incubation
Property release
Proposal writing
Project…. Yes. service.