CETMA - European Research Center for Technologies Design and Materials
CETMA - European Research Center for Technologies Design and Materials

Italy: Apulia

Overview

CETMA is a no-profit Research and Technology Organization. It carries out independent research activities and provides advanced services to enterprises (specially small and medium ones) and to public institutions.

It is a multidisciplinary center and is organized in three Department:

Advanced Materials Engineering Department

Computer Engineering Department

Industrial Design Department

Its expertise concerning Materials Engineering are about carbon fiber composites, other polymer composites, polymeric materials, ceramic and ceramic composite materials, bio-based materials, shape memory alloys. A special expertise is about recycling of waste materials.

In Computer Engineering its  expertise are about developing software for industrial and engineering applications, for Advanced Visual Systems using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality and for robotics and automation applications including e-health applications.

Industrial Design Department is experienced in all phases… Material and component characterization equipments

Universal Testing Machine for mechanical testing on materials and components

HDT- VICAT fordetermination of Equipment for measurement of Heat Deflection Temperature (HDT) and of Vicat Softening Temperature

HPLC - High-pressure liquid chromatography

GPC - Gel permeation chromatography

Thermal Conductivity λ-Meter

Optical Flexmeter and horizontal optical dilatometer

Contact angle analysis

Automatic hydraulic systems for static and low frequency dynamic tests on building materials

Climatic chamber

Infrared thermo-camera

Ultrasonic Equipment

Polling system for FBG sensors for monitoring of components and structures.

Optical Backscatter Reflectometer for monitoring of components and structures.

Material Processes equipments

Compression Molding Pilot line

Induction welding

RTM (Resin Transfer Molding)

Industrial…. Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, CETMA  provides a very large range of services for enabling  SMEs into using advanced technologies:

Development and Process of Advanced Materials
Materials Characterizations
Structural Health Monitoring
Numerical  Simulation of complex phenomena
Product Design  & Engineering
3D printing and prototyping
Software for Robotics, Automation and Control Systems
Software for Information Systems and Knowledge Management
New Product Market Analysis & Business Planning
Training
Innovation management
Contract Research

. Yes. service.

Sectors
Aeronautics & space - Automotive - Chemicals - Construction & building sector - Consumer goods/products - Energy - Environment - Agro-food - Electronics - Healthcare - Machinery - Textiles
Technology
Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 - Robotics / Human machine interaction - Process industry (processing of novel materials, structures, etc.) - Monitoring and control - High performance computing / cloud-based simulation services - Additive manufacturing - High-performance production (flexibility, productivity, precision and zero defect) - High-performance, high precision processing - Intelligent/ sensor-based equipment - Environmental materials (e.g. recycling, recourse efficiency, less impact, CO2 capture/ utilisation) - Industrial materials (incl. catalysts, membranes, adhesives, filters) - High performance materials (strong, light weight, resistant) - Smart and multifunctional materials (incl. phase change, shape memory, self-healing, self-manufacturing) - Polymers, bioplastics - Biobased chemicals
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