AIJU - Asociación de investigación de la industria del juguete, conexas y afines
AIJU - Asociación de investigación de la industria del juguete, conexas y afines

Spain: Valencia

Overview

AIJU research centre is a private, non-profit making organisation aiming to boost research, development and technological innovation to give solutions to societal and industrial challenges, thus enabling the achievement of a constant competitiveness increase and product quality improvement among industry.

AIJU's research activities are focused on:
•    Product development and additive manufacturing
•    Advanced Materials
•    Manufacturing processes and robotics
•    Energy (Fuel Cells and Hydrogen, Ultracapacitors)
•    Environment
•    ICT, simulation and virtualisation
· Instrumentation and chemical/Physical safety
· Materials testing
· Energy
· Industrial environment
· Calibration
· Rapid prototyping plant
· Pilot plant for plastic transformation processes
· Training classrooms
· Advanced Manufactuging and 3D printing equipment :
    - Two commercial laser sintering equipment: Sintersation 2500 and 2500 plus, apart from the laboratory     equipment of LS developed at the Center.
    - Two 3D printers Polyjet (Objet and Alaris)
    - Two small FDM machines (Ultimaker and Wittbox)
    - Vacuum casting technology for printing short series.
    - Hardware and software for the treatment of STL files (Magics RP, Rapidform 2004) and performing CAD designs     (Unigraphics NX, Rapidform XOS XOR2 and, Freeform).
.     ADVANCED MANUFACTURING  
    INTEGRATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT - PROTOTYPING
    PLASTICS PROCESSING
    PROCESS REENGINEERING
    CALIBRATION EQUIPMENT
    INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
    ICT AND DIGITAL APPLICATIONS
    ADVANCED MATERIALS
    INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS
    IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PLASTICS
    MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
    ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES
    PRODUCT SAFETY
    TRAINING
    R&D+I SERVICES
. Yes. service.

Sectors
Automotive - Consumer goods/products - Energy - Process Manufacturing
Technology
Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 - Robotics / Human machine interaction - Process industry (processing of novel materials, structures, etc.) - Monitoring and control - Additive manufacturing - High-performance production (flexibility, productivity, precision and zero defect) - Environmental materials (e.g. recycling, recourse efficiency, less impact, CO2 capture/ utilisation) - Industrial materials (incl. catalysts, membranes, adhesives, filters) - Smart and multifunctional materials (incl. phase change, shape memory, self-healing, self-manufacturing) - Surface engineering and coatings