Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant is an independent, open access service provider for process development, scale-up and custom manufacturing of biobased products and processes. The state-of-the-art facility operates from a laboratory level to a multi-ton scale with a wide and flexible spectrum of modular unit operations. It is an open innovation infrastructure that enables innovators to cross the valley of death between research and market for the KET Industrial Biotech as it translates biobased lab protocol into viable industrial processes.

Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant works B2B, or in consortia with research institutes and industry. The pilot plant enables the conversion of biomass (e.g. agricultural crops and by-products, industrial side streams) into biochemicals, biomaterials, biofuels and other bioproducts. Along with private, bilateral projects, Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant is currently involved in many (21) consortium-based projects within the Horizon 2020/ BBI JU (BIOMAC, SMARTBOX, Glaukos, Sylfeed,… Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant offers a wide range of modular unit operations at lab and pilot scale operated by highly trained and experienced engineers and process operators. As such, a collaborating with BBEPP for your innovative product or process can substantially speed up your innovation and lower the financial risk.

Pilot plant and equipment for:
- Biomass pretreatment
- Biocatalysis
- Fermentation
- Green chemistry
- Downstream purification

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. - Scientific & technological
- Study / initial design / Simulation
- Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Pilot line / demonstration line / preseries
- Product validation / certification

From TRL 4 to TRL 8 for Industrial biotechnology processes

Process development and optimization
Scale-up
Custom manufacturing

From research to product, the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant can assist you in different phases of the innovation chain.

The pilot or demonstration phase, during which a lab scale process is translated into an industrial process, can be expensive, risky and time consuming. Scale-up work is a challenge for many companies because of the cost, capital equipment and expertise needed, while there are no guarantees for successful commercialization at that stage. Early collaboration with experienced personnel in a flexible (shared) facility with a wide range of pilot equipment can substantially…. Yes. service.

The University Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development (TIDES) is a research institute that aims to develop outstanding tourism research, generating and circulating scientific knowledge, and integrating itself into international tourism networks of excellence. In addition, it provides education, training and raises awareness to improve the development of tourism. Finally, it applies the knowledge generated to promote the improvement of economic, social and environmental tourism development in tourist destinations.

TIDES, as the institute responsible for research in tourism at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), has contributed to the fact that it occupies a fourth place as a research centre for scientific productivity in tourism in Europe, second worldwide, shared with other institutions, in scientific productivity in marketing and management of destinations, fourth worldwide in scientific productivity in research on image and brand, and first in Latin America in… The digital lab at TIDES is equipped with all the neuromarketing equipment and the administrative staff of the  technological platform REIS. 

The equipment is composed by: 

- Eye Tracking Heatmap

- EEG, Face Reader and coding Software

- Virtual reality consumables

- Technical staff 

- 8 PC, 2 hight tech screens, 2 printers

 
. Both services, the REIS platform and the EMOTUR Lab are hosted by the The University Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development (TIDES) at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). They can be found in the official website of the Tides Institute in a specific section entitled¨Services to the society¨ 

The services can be used for several activites at industry, training and policy levels:

To promote, organise and plan research objectives in the different fields of tourism, economics, sustainable development and their applications.
To carry out research activities and to collaborate with other public or private entities.
To establish permanent links with other institutions and research centres that are active in the  field.
To transfer and exchange research results and information with other entities, both public and private.
To establish relations with the private and public sector in order to support decision making, projects and development.
To promote the…. Yes. service.

With more than 600 technology specialists in IoT, Cloud, Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, Enterprise PLM and other value chain technologies, TT PSC works with many of the world’s most familiar companies to create and implement solutions that improve the way products are designed, manufactured, operated, and maintained. Through 23 offices on 3 continents, TT PSC serves  customers in the Capital Equipment, Energy, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Automotive, Consumer goods, Communications and High-Tech sectors, TT PSC is a 15-year partner of PTC, Inc., and a long-term partner of many multinational corporations, supporting their strategies and business plans with leading technologies and business solutions.

TT PSC is a member of the Transition Technologies Group (TT). For more than 28 years the 2000+ Software Engineers, IT Architects and System Programmers of TT have been providing the world’s highest levels of technology solutions and services to customers in the continuous process and discrete… . We provide comprehensive IT solutions from conceptual designs, including demonstrators and prototypes, to the implementation of ready-made market solutions supported by our teams of experts and professional trainings. Our solutions are created in response to customer needs as well as we generate our own proprietary projects.

We provide our services in the following thematic areas:

Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Data science
Augmented Reality
Nearshoring & Offshoring
Product Lifecycle Management
Cloud Solutions
Atlassian Solution Partner

We provide services for a wide range of partners: enterprises (SME, large enterprises), global corporations, public institutions, government institutions, research institutions. Our services go to industries such as:

Aerospace and defence
Automotive
Industry
Consumer goods
Energy
Telco
Healthcare

 
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The Prototyping and Innovation Centre (PaIC) is part of the Technical University of Kosice under the umbrella of the Faculty Mechnical Engineering. 

The centre is active in a variety of areas:

Design, manufacturing, testing & validating of prototypes
Research, development and innovations for industry
Mentoring and manufacturing support for start-ups and small businesses in the field of prototype development and manufacture
Implementation of research results of faculty staff and students
Enabling students to directly participate in the research of new products and technologies
Coordination of complex industry-university collaboration projects with international outreach
Trainings, standard offerings as well as custom-made packets, for industry / SMEs etc.

The equipment present in out technology centre is:

5-axis CNC Milling Machine DMG MORI ecoMill 50

5-axis CNC Milling Machine DMG MORI DMU 60 eVO

3-axis CNC Milling Machine DMG MORI 635 V ecoline

CNC Turning and Milling Centre DMG MORI ecoTurn 510

CNC Turning and Milling Centre DMG MORI CTX Beta 800

CNC EDM Wire Cut Machine AccuteX AU-500i

Laser Cutting Machine TruLaser Cell 3000

CNC Brake Press LVD PPEC-6 35/15

Hydraulic Surface Grinder KNUTH HFS 4080B C

Fully Automatic Band Saw KNUTH ABS 320 B

More information on the above equipment can be obtained on our website of the centre under the tab: TECHNOLOGY
. Part of the Prototyping and Innovation Centre is the Digital Innovation Hub Robotics Kosice.

The DIH Robotics Kosice is specifically focussing on the provision of services.

The services provided are covering all types of services which are considered to be delivered by Digital Innovation Hubs: ecosystem services, technology services and business services.

Services, specifically common for PaIC are:

contract research
technical support on scale-up
provision of technology infrastructure
testing & validation
skills & education
ecosystem learning
strategy development
project development

 
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ALCIOM is a consulting and design house company specialized in mixed signal electronics, with a strong expertise in wireless and antennas. ALCIOM help SME's and innovation services of large companies from feasibility studies to technology demonstrators (TRL3-8). ALCIOM is also a training center.

ALCIOM is very active in industrial applications of innovative wireless technologies. As recent examples we are currently working for the future wireless aircraft intercommunication standard (WAIC) with AIRBUS, on new wireless technologies for military projects, on smartmetering (Suez, GRDF), but also for a large number of innovative European SMEs : Lidar environmental sensors (Leosphere), video transmission devices (Livetools), heath-sector (Kapelse, Avidamo, Pixium vision), smart building (EJ), ...
More than 100 high-end test equipments in our labs and fast prototyping cell, see link
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Technological brainstorming

Contractual research (search for solutions for new problems, beyond the state of the art)

Preliminary studies (specifications, architecture study, numerical simulations, feasibility models if necessary)

Radio frequency & microwave design (antenna design and simulation, technological consulting, TX/RX chain architecture, microstrip filters and distributed components, custom amplifiers, system performance simulation)

Proof of concept design (selection of optimal parts, hardware design, mechanical pre-integration, low layers and drivers, communication protocols, signal processing algorithms, FPGA and DSP codes, microcontrollers, test applications)

Fast prototype assembly (supplies, assembly in our internal rapid prototyping cell or via an industrial partner, mechanical and plastics in 3D printing, antenna prototyping)

Validation and optimization (formal test plans, development of characterization and test tools, measurement and…. Yes. service.

Gradiant, Spanish ICT technology centre, aims to improve the competitiveness of companies by transferring knowledge and technologies in the fields of connectivity, intelligence and  security. With more than 100 professionals and 14 applied patents, Gradiant has developed more than 285 different R&D&i projects, becoming one of the main engines of innovation in Galicia. In 2018, Gradiant’s turnover reached 5 million euros, working with more than 170 clients in 29 countries.

Gradiant is backed by a board that includes representatives of the three Galician universities (Vigo, Santiago and A Coruña) and seven companies from the telecommunications industry: Altia, Arteixo Telecom, Egatel, Indra, Plexus, R, Telefónica, Televés; and INEO business association, which represents most of ICT Galician companies.

The commitment with quality is a constant from the beginning. Nine months after starting the activity, Gradiant achieved the Quality Management UNE-EN ISO 9001:2008; and one year later, UNE 166002 R&D&I… Gradiant has its own computing HPC resources. This HPC infrastructure is 100% owned by Gradiant.

Gradiant has an advanced experimental environment for the design, development and validation of:

Future Cellular Network Technologies

New Radio Access Technologies
New SDN/NFV architectures
Advanced Security Features
Novel equipment and devices

Novel communications services and applications for different vertical sectors

Intelligent Video analysis for Security applications
Process automation and optimization for Industry 4.0
Multimedia Content Broadcasting
C-ITS Advanced Services

This environment includes a virtual 5G infrastructure that is used in the form of a Testing LAB, which includes:

OpenStack and Kubernetes virtualization

Orquestación NFV orchestration.

SDN devices: Switch Bare-metal 48x10G.

Radio devices: multiple SDRs, RF-SOC, modem 5G

Interconection RF matrix + mobile anechoic camera

…. Gradiant offers the following services:

R&D

R&D project development
Prototype design and implementation
Proof of concept development

Strategic advice

ICT diagnosis
ICT innovation strategy advice
Technical feasibility analysis
Systems design / advanced ICT architectures: on-board or
HW systems; data capture systems based on IoT
platforms; massive data storage and processing systems;
Cloud systems and architectures for OPEX reduction
Proof of concept

Technology surveillance

Technology surveillance: Systematic analysis of information on the state of digital technologies of interest to the company to help it in the strategic decision-making process.
Technological evaluation

Technical expert

Expert technical advice
Optimization of ICT infrastructure
Performance of HW systems and software
Technical consultancy in ICT tools
Technical advice for investments
Process Mining
NEOTEC reports
Technology…. Yes. service.

The French Center for Rubber and Polymers (CFCP) is made up of five organizations intended to support the development of the rubber industry in France and Europe. 

1) LRCCP / French Rubber and Plastics Research and Testing Laboratory

2) IFOCA ACADEMY / National Institute for Training and Professional Education of Rubber

3) SNCP / French Rubber Manufacturers Association

4) TNPF / Tyres Standardization

5) FDCA / Rubber Foundation

The CFCP is a multidisciplinary skills center bringing together nearly eighty engineers, doctors, technicians, lawyers and economists.

The CFCP, through the SNCP, is a member of the ETRMA (European tire and rubber manufacturers ’association) based in Brussels.
 

#LRCCP is specialized on polymer material espacialy rubber.

We have all machines (click here) we need for your mechanical, chemical or digital characterizations of polymers materials especially rubber.

And we have a workshop wich works on rubber or plastic formulation. We also manufacture prototypes. 

#IFOCA Academy could provide to you several digital trainings on general or very specialized subjects around rubber ==> Just click here

For all information needs ask us on [email protected]
. •Services around rubber and polymers

–Design assistance

–Testing, certification and approval

–Polymer mechanics

–Physico-chemical analysis

–Long-terme behavior

–Technical support, expertise 

–Research & Development (Recycling, smart rubber, material behaviour simulation...)

-Digital training

The skills fields developed by the LRCCP allow it to operate throughout the entire life cycle of rubber and polymer products, from design through to the recovery of end-of-life products, and including manufacturing and maintenance.
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In Vicomtech, we research and develop technology in collaboration with different companies, other research centres and universities in order to generate a positive impact on our environment through technology transfer. More specifically, we specialise in digital technologies related to Visual Computing and Interaction and Artificial Intelligence.

We are a Technological centre set up as a private non-profit Foundation. Our main mission is to respond to the Applied Research, Development and Innovation needs of businesses and institutions in our area, enabling them to confront new financial and social challenges, thus improving their competitiveness in the global marketplace.

OUR MISSION IS:

- To respond to the needs related to Applied Research, Development and Innovation in the field of Information and Communication Technologies, especially those related to the convergence of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision (Visual Computing), Data Analytics and Intelligence, Interactive Digital Media and… We have 3,500m2 shared between four buildings, where research posts are combined with laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment.

- Laboratory of Industry and Advanced Manufacturing: The Laboratory of Industry and Advanced Manufacturing is equipped for applied research in the fields of artificial vision, virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics and smart manufacturing. This space enables researchers to simulate process conditions under which they test different experiments according to the clients’ needs.

- Automotive Laboratory: The Automotive laboratory offers necessary tools for the development and validation of solutions in the field of optimisation of transport infrastructures and the smart exploitation of mobility data, with both real data and simulated data.

- Biomedicine Laboratory: The Biomedical Applications Laboratory is designed for the validation of biomedical engineering systems –with special emphasis on image processing applications and the development of new surgical techniques…. We transfer technology to businesses, enabling them to improve their processes and become more competitive
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Cedrat Technologies SA is a high tech SME specializing in high performance mechatronics: 
- Smart Actuators : Actuators & motors based on piezoelectric materials, EAP, ultrasonic effects, 
- Smart Sensors : Magnetic, magnetostrictive, piezoelectric sensors, transformers or generators ; Force, Torque, Position, Speed, contactless sensors.
- Mechatronic systems : Multi-dof mechanisms ; nano micro positioning ; motion control ; Active control / damping of Vibrations ; Vibration (Ultrasonic or sonic) assistance to process ; Proportional valves ; Fast injectors ; active / smart structures ; electro acoustic transducers ; sono reactors
- Detection systems :  Health monitoring ; NDT using magnetic or acoustic effects ; Localisation

In these domains, Cedrat Technologies designs, manufactures & tests components, smart systems inc. electronics. Cedrat Technologies also performs R&D activities and transfers of technologies for mass production applications. Training activities complete these transfers .

Cedrat… The R&D facilities used by CTEC to customize our technologies include advanced modelling CAD programs: ATILA 3D FEM for 3D structures coupled to electro-active materials and/or fluids; FLUX 3D FEM for magnetic engineering devices such as electric motors & sensors; MATLAB-SIMULINK, SPICE and ALTIUM for the design of the driving and control electronics; Solidworks CAD for the mechanical computation and the drawings.

The R&D facilities include also workshop facilities and Test Equipment adapted to Mechatronic: Coil winding machine; Precision assembly ; 2D/3D metrology; IPC 3 brazing;  ISO 5 Clean room; Thermal-Vacuum & Climatic chambers; Vibration shakers; PCs with LABVIEW; Lab. power supplies & amplifiers for piezo & magnetic devices; Impedance & Spectrum analyser; Gauss-meter; Auto collimators ; Laser interferometers / vibrometers …
. CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES's extensive R&T activity is conducted by a multidisciplinary team of experts. Our laboratories are equipped with a complete library of engineering software and specialised measurement apparatus.

Beyond standard products and building blocks, CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES provides completely customised solutions. We apply our long experience and technical know-how to the innovation of your products. From power systems to electromechanical devices drive and control, from active materials based structures to electromagnetic and thermal design of electrical machines, CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES supplies software and hardware solutions adapted to your application.

We show you activities we have in collaborative project, and we explain the services we offer in B to B project development.
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Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals (Ł-IMN) is a leading European research and technology centre of non-ferrous industry. 

The scope of provided by Ł-IMN activities includes R&D on new, innovative technologies development, optimization of industrial processes, modernization of production lines, construction of equipment, measuring and analytical services. Institute has about 500 highly-qualified employees and for 60 years has been conducting comprehensive activities in the following areas: ores, other minerals and secondary materials treatment, pyro- and hydrometallurgy, environmental protection, metals processing, material engineering – new materials, chemical power sources, analytical chemistry.

Ł-IMN key activities concern:

sustainable economy and energy (effective environmentally safe manufacturing technologies, material recovery - technologies for circular economy, materials and products for electrical grids),
Intelligent mobility (electricity storage, renewable… As broad organisation it is impossible to list all equipment of  Ł-IMN. However, on the Ł-IMN website all our fields of expertise and equipment are described; See: http://www.imn.gliwice.pl/index/en (apply links to divisions and departments); list of selected equipment and device is given below:

equipment for additive manufacturing: 3D printer designed for the production of three-dimensional metal objects in Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing technology, High-temperature Isostatic Press.
laboratory equipment including: induction vacuum furnaces, electric arc furnace, High-energy planetary mill, X-ray diffractometer, calorimeters, Tektronix oscilloscope measurement bed, dielectric spectrometer and other high quality lab equipment.
equipment for research on powders and composites: plasma spraying set - Plasma System by Flame Spray Technologies, system for spheroidization and plasma decomposition, device for Spark Plasma Sintering, vertical hydraulic presses, mills and other high quality equipment.
…. As broad organisation it is impossible to list all services provided by the Ł-IMN. However, on the Ł-IMN website all our service and expertise activities can be found in more details ; See: http://www.imn.gliwice.pl/index/en (apply links to divisions and department); list of selected services is given below:

technological and application research, innovation and implementation studies,
scientific & technological consultancy, expert opinions,
spectrum of research in advanced material technologies,
development of technologies for production and manufacturing of innovative new-generation materials (amorphous and nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials),
services in the production of Cu and Ni-based amorphous brazing alloys, electric contact rivets, spherical powders via gas atomization and the SLM 3D printing optimization processes,
design, development and prototyping of chemical power sources, design of battery packs and modules according to customer’s needs,
anodic oxidation – chemical…. Yes. service.