The Clinatec biomedical research center is like no other facility in the world. R&D is conducted by the CEA and the Grenoble University Medical Center oversees clinical trials. Clinatec develops new treatments, diagnostics and research methods for applications in oncology, neurodegenerative disease and spinal-cord injury. A multidisciplinary team made up of clinical practitioners, biologists, mathematicians and engineers in microtechnology, nanotechnology and signal processing has been constituted at the platform to drive innovation in micro and nanosystems for healthcare. The platform’s unique approach—bringing together a broad range of know-how at a single location—fosters the emergence of novel solutions and speeds up proof-of-concept testing and transfer of new technologies to manufacturers. The ultimate goal is to offer new solutions to as many patients as possible.

An open project center provides access to Clinatec’s resources. Partners can assign their staff to or house their projects at Clinatec… Clinatec possesses a broad range of equipment and leverages the know-how and advances of the MINATEC campus. Notable equipment includes systems design and integration labs, a preclinical testing center, an operating room with intraoperative MRI, and various medical imaging resources (SPECT-CT, MEG).
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R and D at the platform focuses on analysis and modelling of physical phenomena; experimentation at the lab and demonstrator scales; process evaluation; and demonstrator development—with the goal of devising economically-viable solutions by 2020. The platform works with around fifteen industrial partners, including GDF Suez and Air Liquide.

The biomass platform is unique in France in terms of the sheer scope of its R&D activities, which cover biomass grinding, torrefaction, pyrolisis and gasification processes from an analytical scale up to 100 kg per hour—with results that can be extrapolated to industrial processes. The platform’s overriding purpose is to produce high-yield energy while eliminating waste and controlling emissions of substances like heavy metals and sulfur. The platform’s equipment includes several reactors, a grinding unit, and torrefaction and gasification furnaces. Beyond the traditional sources of biomass, like wood and farm and forest byproducts, researchers at the platform are… Equipment for biomass grinding, torrefaction (roasting), pyrolysis and gasification processes from an analytical scale up to 100 kg per hour

The platform’s equipment includes several reactors, a grinding unit, and torrefaction and gasification furnaces (an 11-meter-high, 3.5-meter diameter torrefaction furnace; a high-pressure, high-temperature gasification furnace)  in an overall area of 800 sq m.
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The CEA Battery Infrastructure R&D focuses on lithium-ion battery development and small-run production, from materials synthesis through to integration. The goal is to develop end-to-end production systems for applications ranging from hearing aids to electric-powered buses, with the broader objectives of cutting costs, increasing battery life, and improving reliability.

The battery platform boasts all of the know-how and heavy equipment required to develop and produce small runs of lithium-ion batteries.

R&D at the platform starts with identifying and synthesizing materials to optimize battery performance, and encompasses manufacturing the various components (such as battery electrodes and electrolytes),assembling the battery packs, and integrating them into complete systems. Battery safety is assessed via a range of tests that include total destruction of the battery.

The platform's size and scope make it unique in Europe. With a strong commitment to industrial R&D partnerships, the platform works… The platform has around 20 pieces of heavy equipment, including coating and filling machines and a pre-industrial assembly line. The platform’s work focuses on lithium-ion batteries of all sizes, from tiny hearing-aid batteries weighing in at just a few grams to 300-kg electric-bus batteries.
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Our goal is to help manufacturers improve their agility, reactivity, performance and quality.

List, a CEA Tech institute, masters the technologies that support industry to produce in a more effective and sustainable way.

Our institute relies on scientific expertise that is unique in France considering our close collaboration with most industrial sectors.

Our research is expanding onto smart manufacturing emerging topics: modelling and simulation, knowledge engineering, data processing, vision, information and communication systems etc.
Industrial R&D partners can access our technology platforms to achieve goals like building a demonstrator system or prototype or doing test production runs. The industrial-grade equipment at the platforms closes the gap between testing and industrial scale-up.

Facilities include

Augmented and virtual reality: product design and simulation software, production equipment, and workstations
Non-destructive testing (NDT): modelling, simulation, and instrumentation (US, EC, CT) and new inspection systems (SHM) for new production methods (additive manufacturing)
Robotics and cobotics: versatile robotic components, cobotic systems (operator assistance, task-sharing)
Digital factory and Internet of Things (IoT): secure protocols, vision systems, HMI; model-driven engineering, knowledge engineering, runtime support

. 220 research engineers dedicate their time to six main domains of activity

Collaborative robotics
Virtual reality
Augmented reality
Non destructive testing
Instrumentation
Radioactivity metrology

Services include feasibility studies, prototype development, testing, security analysis, and competitive benchmarking.
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The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is a research centre whose purpose is to carry out interdisciplinary research at the highest international quality level which, by creating knowledge, helps to improve health and quality of life and generate wealth.

IBEC conducts excellent interdisciplinary research at the frontiers of engineering and life sciences in order to generate new knowledge by putting together fields like nanomedicine, biophysics, biotechnology, tissue engineering and the applications of health information technology.

The knowledge that exists in the IBEC research groups is structured in three broad avenues of knowledge: nanomedicine, cellular and tissue engineering and ICT for health. These are placed at the service of science and society to progress in three major application areas, namely:

Bioengineering for future medicine

Bioengineering for regenerative therapies

Bioengineering for active ageing

IBEC actively pursues the establishment of… IBEC structure consists of R&D core and a Nanotechnology Service Platform. IBEC’s Nanotechnology Platform is an accessible and versatile research facility featuring 150m2 of class 10,000 cleanroom space and laboratories offering state-of-the-art equipment for the fabrication and characterization of micro- and nanodevices and structures.IBEC R&D core: Establishing a partnership with IBEC gives companies access to top-class scientists and research know-how, in three breakthrough avenues of knowledge: nanomedicine, cellular and tissue engineering and ICT for health..
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Bioprinting of 3D structures using biomaterials and cellladen hydrogels.
Microfluidic chips design and fabrication using photolithographic processes, including Cr photomasks fabrication.
Microelectrode fabrication using a thin layer deposition technique.
Chemical characterization of materials using ToF-SIMS:  mass spectra of surfaces; chemical mapping of elements and molecular distribution and depth profile, implantation profiles and interface analysis.
SEM morphological and topographical characterization.
Wettability characterization of surfaces using a contact angle measurement technique.

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IMO-IMOMEC is the Institute for Materials Research of Hasselt University. The core competence of IMO is the development and characterization of new material systems with potential use in microelectronics, bioelectronics and nanotechnology. In the core competence field, fundamental as well as applied research programs are carried out.
IMO-IMOMEC has a leading analytical & electrical testing laboratory that possesses a wide variety of testing capabilities. Also fully equipped chemical laboratories are available for custom organic and polymer synthesis.
Our scientists are highly qualified industrial analysts, who focus on generating the appropriate data needed to solve our client's needs. We provide our clients with high-quality problem solving services by utilizing the skills of our physicists & chemists in conjunction with state of the art scientific equipment. Standard turnaround time is typically three business days and all reports generated can be emailed or faxed.
All data collected and test results generated are considered strictly confidential.
Currently, there are around 70 techniques available at your disposal ranging from materials synthesis to electrical and physical/chemical characterization. . - Scientific & technological
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Ceit is a non-profit research centre that was created by the University of Navarra in 1982. Our primary mission is to carry out applied industrial research projects under contract, working closely with our clients' R&D departments. Ceit promotes excellence in applied research by publishing non-confidential results, disseminating scientific and technical knowledge in a variety of venues, and training doctoral students within the framework of industrial research projects.

Ceit seeks regular collaboration with companies in a range of sectors (railway, aeronautical, automotive, health, manufacturing, energy and environment) and strives to understand all aspects of our clients' business in order to develop high value added solutions through applied investigation projects. In addition to offering innovative solutions to our clients, Ceit trains young researchers who are preparing to join the labour market and add value to the production system.

Our core mission is to serve the industrial sector carrying out… Please refer to the organisation website at http://www.ceit.es/en/areas-of-r-a-d
. Ceit seeks regular collaboration with companies in a range of sectors (railway, aeronautical, automotive, environmental, energy, health&food, ICT and manufacturing), including SMEs. Please, find information related to our references, capabilities and services in the following links:

Railway: http://ceit.es/en/industrial-sectors/railway
Aeronautical: http://ceit.es/en/industrial-sectors/aeronautical
Automotive: http://ceit.es/en/industrial-sectors/automotive
Environmental: http://ceit.es/en/industrial-sectors/environmental
Energy: http://ceit.es/en/industrial-sectors/energy
Health & Food: http://ceit.es/en/industrial-sectors/health-a-food
ICT: http://ceit.es/en/industrial-sectors/ict
Manufacturing: http://ceit.es/en/industrial-sectors/industrialmanufacturing

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Founded in 2004, PRODINTEC is an industry-driven multisectorial Technology Centre created to boost the competitiveness of European companies by applying by applying technological advances both to their products and to their manufacturing and management processes.

The main lines of activity are:

-Innovative manufacturing Technologies

-Product design and engineering

-Digital Industry

-Electronic engineering

-Innovation management

PRODINTEC possesses in-house cutting-edge equipment for manufacturing and advanced software for product design along with high skilled engineers with experience in different fields, from advanced manufacturing technologies to production plant management. Thanks to that, it has a high experience not only developing private turnkey projects for different sectors, but also on developing national and international projects. Main competences: additive manufacturing, microtechnologies, milling, industrial robotics, process engineering (3D inspection , metrology....),… Additive manufacturing facilities, different materials ( metal/plastics).
Light-Rolls pilot line: high throughput production platform for the manufacture of functional flexible products.
Possibility of testing different materials and substrates on the current pilot line (manufacture of validators) and design of tailored products with roll-to-roll manufacturing criteria.

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-Advanced manufacturing, 3D design tools and printed electronics training.
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ITMA Materials Technology is a Spanish private and non-profit technological organization, which aims at promoting and executing research and innovation for industrial companies (especially SMEs) through its expertise in applied research and technological development in the specific field of materials science and technology. ITMA´s R&D activities on KETs (especially regarding advanced materials, advanced manufacturing technologies and photonics) comprise the following areas of specialisation: steel and metallic alloys, ceramics, refractory materials & raw materials, active materials, plastics & composites, surfaces and engineering.

Fusion pilot plant; induction furnaces. Heat treatment furnaces.
Light optical microscopes, confocal, electronic microscopes (SEM and FEG SEM) and XRD
Thermal analysis (DTA, TGA, DSC and DIL) and in situ thermal analysis.
Specific Software: Selector material (CES Selector) and thermodynamic and phase diagram calculations (Thermo-Calc). 
Rhesca hot-dip galvanizing simulator
Universal testing machines(up to 1 MN and 200 Hz) with furnaces (up to 1100ºC) and temperature champers (from -150ºC up to 300ºC) , for dynamic and static tests.
Static and dynamic multiaxial test rig
Creep and stress-rupture machines (until 1100ºC)
Slow strain rate machine for stress corrosion cracking and hydrogen induced cracking test equipment.
Amplifier-logging device to experimental stress measurements by strain gage method
Tribology Lab: Pin-on-disc, high frequency friction test machine, twin disc rolling contact fatigue
Welding robot cell with DX100 dynamic controller, utilizing CMT and TIG welding….
Materials´ Development
Supporting the development of new materials, products and processes.
Testing of prototypes and real scale components
Advanced Characterization through several techniques, including mechanical, physical or chemical tests.
Product validation, prototypes and testing.
Supporting engineering/simulation activities using FEM.
Improvements in manufacturing processes.
Cost reduction actions through materials´ selection studies.

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The Equipment & Prototype Center is a department of Eindhoven University of Technology providing the design and manufacturing of Prototypes and Research Equipment. We work for Eindhoven University and also for external Research Institutes and Industry. Our services include precision mechanics, mechatronics, electronics, software and scientific glassware.
Mechanical Machining, Electronics, Software, Glass Technology, Cleanroom
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