FCBA is a private non-profit research and innovation institute for the French forest-based sector. With more than 340 employees, the institute is active in research, development and innovation, standardization, certification, technical assistance, consultancy, expertise, testing, training and information of public and private forest-based and furniture stakeholders. FCBA covers a wide range of clients, e.g. forest management companies, forest owners, suppliers, wood products industries, construction sector, furniture, pulp and paper, etc. FCBA also actively contributes to sectorial policy support actions at national and regional level, while steering pro-active dialog with public authorities supporting building with wood, and the circular forest-based bioeconomy.
Forest-research activities address a variety of themes, like e.g. tree genetics, breeding, silviculture, biotechnology, forest resources modelling, harvesting, logistics, transportation, wood quality and process interactions, living and building… FCBA has several laboratories that are specialised on research, development and testing of forest-based and other materials, e.g. biology, chemical, seismic, mechanical, physical, fire testing, acoustic, fibre testing, genetic testing, a living lab and a virtual reality laboratory. FCBA is one of the incubators for the FabLab at Cité Descartes with the partner research organisation at Champs-sur-Marne.

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. FCBA is specialised to serve the forest-based sector in France and in cooperation on pre-competitive research on European and international level.

It carries out a wide variety of training for the French forest-based and furniture industries.

It is one of the key certification bodies in France.

FCBA develops in collaborative research and innovation projects new technologies, prototypes and concepts with industrial partners.

All research and innovation activites at FCBA are classfied TRL (4) 5 - 9.
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Fundación Centro Tecnológico de Componentes (CTC) was created in the year 2000 as a non-profit foundation. Currently it is recognized as a Technology Center by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain. Its main objective is to bring value to companies through research and development projects, contributing to the enhancement of their competitiveness and sustainability, and becoming their technology partner, by being the meeting point between their needs and research activities. Within the various fields of knowledge, the CTC is positioned in Experimental Sciences and Engineering. CTC develops its R & D activity in the following fields: Industrial Systems and Nuclear Components , Marine Renewable Energies, Industrial Automation and Robotics and Advanced Materials and Nanomaterials. CTC participates in several associations and technology platforms at Cantabrian, Spanish and European levels.

Regional Level:
CINC (Cluster of the Nuclear Industry in Cantabria)
GIRA (Cantabria’s automotive… Advanced materials and nanomaterials laboratory
It is equipped with:
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM): High resolution technique to analyse materials at nanometric scale. Images and topography. Electrical, magnetic, thermal and mechanical properties. Nanolithography.
Three Roll Mill: Nanomaterials dispersion in matrix (high shear forces).
Mini Spray Dyer: (advanced technique of drying): Microencapsulation of materials, atomization of liquids, production of solid particles at microscale, transformation of liquids (solutions, emulsions) into dry micro powder, dispersion of nanomaterials into microparticles, etc.
Thermal conductivity analyser, specific heat, diffusivity and effusivity of any kind of material, whether solid, liquid, paste or powder.
Inverted metallurgical microscope: Microstructural analysis of materials.
Universal Mechanical Testing Machine. Tensile, bending and compression tests.
Ultrasound homogenizer. Nanomaterials dispersion en different liquid media.

Navigation Systems Laboratory
…. ROBOTICS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
CTC is specialized in the development of automated systems providing innovative solutions that enable the development of new high-quality services.
Specialization and Technologies:
Mechanical and Structural design
Design and simulation of control algorithms
Software implementation and analysis under Real-Time specifications.
Structural and thermal simulations (ANSYS)
Aerodynamic Simulation using CFD codes (ANSYS CFX)
Energy Harvesting

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
CTC is specialized in the development of multi-antenna and multi-receiver GNSS systems for 3D attitude determination (Roll, Pitch and Yaw), and hybrid navigation systems that combine multiple sources of information by means of data fusion techniques.
Specialization and Technologies:
GNSS-based attitude determination
Characterization and modeling of MEMS inertial sensors
Characterizaton and modeling of GNSS raw measurements
Data Fusion
Real time software design. Implementation and analysis
Innovative GNSS…. Yes. service.

The AquaBioTech Group operates a state-of-the-art technology centre and contract research organisation located in Malta.  AquaBioTech Group is a leading research and technology company for product development and testing of products and applications related to the marine environment.

An independent testing facility that ensures experimental results of the highest integrity and quality, whilst all enquiries received, project discussions and results generated by the company are treated in the strictest confidence with no intellectual property (IP) retained by the facility.

Some of our areas of research include:

Feed formulation research and studies

Fish health research and studies

Offshore technology testing

Aqua technology testing

Nanotechnology

Bioprospecting

Ecotoxicology

Fish nutrition

Antifouling

The AquaBioTech Group has been continually upgrading and expanding its aquatic research and development facilities, which currently includes a total of seventeen (17) trial rooms - “Bays” with over twenty-eight (28) individual trial systems, all utilising the AquaBioTech Group‘s highly efficient and stable RAS technology.

The veterinarian unit is geared towards undertaking various aspects of applied research into vaccine development, testing, efficacy and challenge trials as well as viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases in aquatic animals. Work also includes assessment of other medicinal items, functional feeds and antibiotics.

The fish nutrition facility is available to international companies to benchmark commercially available products and carry out exploratory research on new products. Such as testing new formulations or specialised novel ingredients for providing new approaches to improving fish growth, reducing environmental impacts or improving fish health. In-depth…. The AquaBioTech Group provides a number of services for SMEs and large enterprises in the field of product and technology development spanning from proof of concept validation and prototyping to  technology demonstration to testing and validation to lab and real time environment at its land-based and offshore testing facilities.  In addition it offers workshop and training areas where we make sure that our clients are well vested with the technology before it goes commercial. 
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REDIT accounts for 11 associated technology centres that offer a wide range of R&D&I advanced services addressed to business, especially SMEs, which need the support of external agents to innovate: R&D&I lines, laboratories for analysis, tests and advanced investigation, technology watch and competitive intelligence.

REDIT joins, integrates and represents these Technology Institutes, which are a model in the public – private collaboration and which aspire to the international excellence and leadership in R&D&I and support the competitiveness of businesses through innovation.

The centres have become the main technology allies for many companies in order to innovate, transfer technology and apply knowledge and technologies. 

AIDIMME: Metal-Processing, Wood and Furniture Technology Centre.
AIJU: Toys, Children’s and Leisure Products Technology Centre.
AIMPLAS: Plastics Technology Centre
AINIA: Food Technology Centre
AITEX: Textile Technology Centre
IBV: Biomechanics Technology Centre
… REDIT centres have an extensive infrastructure offered to the SMEs: 

- More than 100,000 m2 dedicated to R&D&i

- More than 100 laboratories

- 20 Technological Observatories, on the Market and Trends
. REDIT´s mission consists of contributing to the regional, national and international recognition of the Technology Institutes as a model of efficient organization in the Science, Technology and Enterprise System.

REDIT´s vision is to become the organism that joins, integrates and represents the technology centres, which are a model in the public – private collaboration and which, individually and collectively, aspire to the international excellence and leadership in R&D&I and support the competitiveness of businesses through innovation.

The Network mainly supplies services to the existing sectors of the Valencian Region and emerging horizontal technologies: ceramics, building, wood, furniture, packaging and related industries, optics, colour and imaging, toys, metal mechanics, plastics, agro-food, textile, biomechanics, footwear, energy, packaging, transport and logistics, computing.

The services provided by REDIT centres are: 

Knowledge and expertise for R & D & innovation projects
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VTT MIKES Metrology is a research facility for measurement technology. It realises the SI units, performs high-level metrological research, develops measuring applications in partnership with industry, and provides customized expert services and calibrations of customer equipment. High performance laboratory rooms (in terms of air temperature and humidity, vibrations, electric power and electromagnetic environment) and measurement equipment provide excellent environment for sensing technology development. As the National Metrology Institute of Finland, MIKES Metrology is part of European and global metrology networks EURAMET and CIPM. 
High performance metrology building consisting laboratory rooms with very low thermal, vibrational and electromagnetic disturbance levels; equipment for quantum metrology, nanometrology, optical spectroscopy, interferometry; atom clocks; high-accuracy measurement and test equipment for frequency, electrical quantities, geometry, temperature, humidity, moisture, mass, pressure, force, torque, flow and acoustics. 
. Training, prototype development, testing, calibration, validation, uncertainty estimation
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HOLO3 is a technology transfer centre specialized in optical technologies. The centre provides different kinds of support to the industry :

- R&D and feasibility studies

- On demand equipment design and realization

- Measurement services

- Training and technical support

 
The centre offers the following technologies :

- Speckle interferometry : TV-holography and shearography set-up

- Structured lighting : several 3D sensors

- Deflectometry : measurement tunnel and polyma sensor

- Virtual reality : workbench and OCULUS setup

- Infrared imaging : several IR camera 3-5 micron and 8-10 micron

A description of these technologies is available on the website holo3.com

 
. On each technology listed above HOLO3 offers :

- R&D and feasibility studies

- On demand equipment design and realization

- Measurement services

- Training and technical support

 
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Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) is an application-oriented research center in the frame of the Austrian COMET program for competence centers for excellent technology.

SCCH's research focuses on two pillars: Data Science and Software Science.

These two parts include

Software Analytics and Evolution
Secure Software Analytics
Rigorous Methods in Software Engineering
Data Analysis Systems
Knowledge-Based Vision Systems

SCCH supports its partners in a smart transition to AI-based cyber physical systems.

Main research topics of SCCH are:

(deep) transfer learning for leveraging powerful but data-hungry learning methods for industrial applications where labeled training data is scare,
privacy and security for distributed learning in computing clouds,
AI–based software analytics for enabling the innovation cycle in data and software-intensive systems.

SCCH has the necessary equipment to carry out projects in Data Science and Software Science. This also includes hardware for AI systems and a computer vision lab.
. SCCH offers research services in Data and Software Science within long-term cooperation in the national-funded COMET program (open for companies from all countries), cooperation in other funding programs, as well as not funded projects.

SCCH has an international scientific network and connects scientific research with applied R&D.
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COMPETENCE IN SUSTAINABLE METAL PRODUCTION 

The vision for the period 2015-2023 is to develop K1-MET as the leading and internationally renowned metallurgical competence centre. To reach this vision, recognition and implementation of trendsetting innovations will be one of the major challenges. The basis for a fruitful development of K1-MET is the established and deepening cooperation between our approximately 20 scientific facilities and industrial companies since 2001. The results in industrial and academic research underline our success. The next step in the lifecycle of K1-MET is the founding of a company with limited liability under Austrian law (GmbH, equivalent to Ltd.) as an answer to the demanding challenges in the metallurgical sector in terms of technology and organization. In particular, the European Commission targets to reduce CO2 emissions for the period 2020-2050 play a key role in our research and development.

Specifically the following actions are planned:

Definition of a joint… The K1-MET metallurgical competence center hosts a research programme with four main themes, named areas. The focus of Area 1 is resources and recycling and Area 2 contains projects on metallurgical research. Area 3 is on processing and energy efficiency, in accordance with one of the main objectives of K1-MET: energy efficiency and reduction of specific CO2 emission. Finally, in Area 4 knowledge from the other areas are combined and consolidated into simulation tools.

 
. OBJECTIVES AND MOTIVATION

K1-MET is a competence center for Excellent Technologies in Advanced Metallurgical and Environmental Process Development and is driven by the Austrian steel industry. The K1-MET metallurgical competence center is aligned with the strategic goals defined by the European Commission in the EU 2020 strategy.

K1-MET is essential to the continuation of the prolonged successful track record of the Austrian steel and processing industry, to make it more competitive, sustainable, and lead to economic growth. At the core of this vision three main goals are identified:

CO2 efficient production of metals and intermediate components
Cross-sectional approach to radically improved production process
Leadership in solutions for more efficient processing and energy systems

For further information (e.g. prototyping, development and testing, design) please visit our homepage where detailed information is highlited.

 
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Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH

Founded in 2008, RCPE GmbH is an independent research center located in Graz (Austria) that performs cutting-edge research in the field of pharmaceutical process and product design.

Every day, we help our partners to develop and pioneer novel drugs and associated production routes, providing safe and more affordable therapies to patients. From early development to commercial production, we accompany our partners through all phases, utilizing our science-based, mechanistic understanding of products and processes.

As an international driver of pharmaceutical engineering science, RCPE offers tailored solutions to our partners, building upon our advanced capabilities in modeling and simulation, material science, PAT and process design. Moreover, RCPE features an international, multidisciplinary research team, unique laboratories and pilot plants suitable for even potent APIs.

RCPE is part of the following networks, clusters and initiatives:
human… RCPE Pilot Plant (ISO 9001, ISO 14001)

The pilot plant is extensively equipped, including a continuous extrusion system with hot-melt extruders, a wet extruder, a die-face cutter, a pelletizer, various feeding systems, a fully-instrumented laboratory tablet press, fluid-bed systems, a compaction simulator, granulators, nano-spray driers, capsule filling systems, filters, blenders, drug printers, crystallizers, coaters and much more.
The machines are used for process development, process understanding and the implementation of process-analytical tools for in-process monitoring, control and process optimization.

Regular maintenance and certification of the equipment and extensive training of the employees guarantee top research results and performance.

State-of-the-art pilot plant
Mixers, wet & dry granulators, compaction, coating, spray drying, continuous processing, etc.
Online NIR, Raman, UVVis, OCT, NIR GMP certified
500 m2 of state-of-the-art facilities
Pharma Standard Clean Rooms …. RCPE provides independent R&D in the field of pharmaceutical engineering, bridging the gap between science and industrial applications, ensuring pharmaceutical companies have the necessary predictive tools, methods and approaches to benefit from regulatory and industry-driven initiatives such as Quality by Design.

It is our intention to make our research capabilities and technological background available for companies on a service basis. Typical examples include measurements using our vast experimental and analytical capabilities, literature studies, feasibility studies, design studies, simulation work and other types of services.

Benefits

Diverse Research Activities
small preparatory studies up to extensive multi-year research programs are possible
Proven Scientific Excellence
multi-disciplinary teams, dedicated to customer needs
Maximum Output for Partners
defined & clear IPR strategies
Flexible Business Models
funded & non-funded cooperation scenarios to maximize cost efficiency…. Yes. service.

MATERIA NOVA is a research and development center based on advanced and disruptive technologies in the field of sustainable materials, multifunctional surfaces, materials for energy and biotechnology.

The 80 scientific experts from Materia Nova offer partnership with small, medium or large companies for research and/or development projects which are mainly carried out in the Materia Nova facilities and are validated at industrial scale either by its subsidiary companies (IONICS S.A. and NANO4 S.A.) or directly at customers site.

Materia Nova gives also technical assistance to companies such as in upscaling, feasibility testing, life cycle assessment, materials characterization, market research, state of the art, technology watch and targeted consulting. 
We perform measurement and analysis on materials and surfaces with a problem-solving perspective :

Morphology : microscopic analysis of surface morphology, microstructure analysis, Identification of contaminants (defects, size, shape, structure), Thickness layer measurement, Roughness measurement (Ra, Rt, Rq,…) using mechanical profilometer or Atomic Force Microscopy AFM), size measurement of particles or powders in solutions using laser particle size, Physico-chemical analysis and composition and Structural analysis

Physico-chemical analysis and composition :Characterization of the chemical composition of the materials (bulk / surface/interface: thin layers) and Position of the elements (or locating the elements) (SEM-EDS, XRF, XPS-ESCA, ToF-SIMS, TEM-EDS)

Structural analysis : X-Rays diffraction for the characterization of compounds and crystallized materials or powder such as metals, minerals, ceramics, pharmaceutical compounds, organometallic complex, …

For more…. Main fields of activities:

Upscaling on pilot or industrial equipment
Characterization, testing, materials analyses
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
R&D projects in the field of :

White biotechnology, (bio)polymers and (bio)composites
Sol-gel and wet coatings
Plasma technologies
Electrochemistry, corrosion
Organic electronics
Chemical sensors

 
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