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
. - Scientific & technological
- Study / initial design / Simulation
- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up/ Characterisation
- Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Pilot line / demonstration line / preseries
 
. Yes. service.

LEITAT is a non-profit organization, specialised in material, device and production technologies. LEITAT develops R&D activities in the areas of material sciences, environment, surface treatments, biotechnologies and low carbon energies with deep knowledge and experience in technologic transfers to several industrial sectors (chemistry & material, transport, health, packaging, energy, textile, detergency, environment, cosmetic, pharmacy, building, food, sport, maritime and security). LEITAT is recognized by the Spanish government as a CIT (Centre of Technological Innovation) and is one of the 5 Technology centres which are accredited by the Regional Government of Catalonia.

Main activities can be summarized by the following key knowledge divisions: 

Industrial Biotechnology
Bioinvitro
Biomed
Nanohealth & Safety
Analytical Chemistry
Fast moving consumer goods
Nanomaterials
Advanced Polymers
Surface treatments
Textile technologies
Smart systems
New production processes
… The equipment available at LEITAT covers broad range of applications and techniques, as broad as the ‘Key Enabling Technologies’ described by the European Commission. LEITAT owns suitable facilities with small, medium and pilot plant equipments that allow to interact with any technology along the TRL scale from 3 to 9.

Infrastructures and equipement related to technology area under focus, including (non exhaustive list):  microbiology lab with pilot scale fat crystallizer and pilot scale homogenizer, in vitro technologies, Facilities and equipments for in vitro and in vivo toxicological studies of nanomaterials and nanocomposites, analytical chemistry equipments, consumer goog testing facilities (including humidity, temperature, UV aging, stability testing, hard surface testing), nanomaterials characterisation, advanced polymer equipments (extruer, mould injection, compounder, polymerization reactor and related characterisation equipments), surface treatment technologies, textile technologies & equipments…. LEITAT can provide a full range of services the different industrial sectors going from material design, testing and processing, to the development of prototypes. In particular, the several testing departments at LEITAT offer services for the determination of more than 800 physical and chemical parameters (including ISO Certification and Normalization).

- Scientific & technological
- Study / initial design / Simulation
- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up/ Characterisation
- Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Pilot line / demonstration line / preseries
- Product validation / certification
 
. Yes. service.

R&D technology centre specialising in product, process and service innovation helping companies enhance their competitiveness. We offer comprehensive solutions combining the six areas in which we have a high level of specialisation:
 -   Embedded Systems
 -   Conversion and Control of Power Electronic Systems
  -  Design, monitoring and control of mechatronic structures
  -  Smart Systems for Industrial Applications
  -  Intelligent Maintenance Systems
  -  Electrical Storage and Thermal Management Systems
 
- Embedded Systems Laboratory
- Combustion and thermal management laboratory
- Medium voltage power electronics Laboratory
- Structural reliability and mechatronics laboratory
- Electrical energy storage systems laboratory
- Microsystems Laboratory
- Other facilities
    Acoustical Semianechoic Chamber
    EMC and Electrical Security Test Laboratory
    Climatic chambers
. - Scientific & technological
- Study / initial design / Simulation
- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up/ Characterisation
- Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Product validation / certification
 
. Yes. service.

Main Topic: Advanced manufacturing & industrial production technologies.

RESEARCH UNITS:

Strategic Innovation Management (technology roadmapping, competitive & market intelligence, industrial property, strategy planning)
Manufacturing processes (process optimization, non-conventional processes, production management, inspection systems)
Dynamics and Control (machine dynamics, vibration control, chatter avoidance, stable machining, robotics)
Precision design & engineering (precision systems, mechatronic design, machine vision, in-process measurement)
Automation & digitisation (CPS, cloud computing, data monitoring, data analytics, predictive maintenance, business intelligence)

9 Laboratories (prototypes workshop, composites, laser, high-performance dynamics, components testing, measurement systems, CNC & digital factory, ultra-precision processes, ultra-precision metrology)
Prototype workshop
Machine and ultra-precision processes laboratory
Ultra-precision metrology laboratory
Measurement systems laboratory
High performance dynamics laboratory
Composites laboratory
. - Scientific & technological
- Study / initial design / Simulation
- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up/ Characterisation
- Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Pilot line / demonstration line / preseries

e.g. Grinding Technologies specialisation course for Line managers, plant managers, production managers, technical directors
. Yes. service.

- Control and automation systems analysis for the improvement of industrial processes
- Automated fault diagnosis in complex systems
- Study of new coatings and materials with nanoparticles additions
- Energy efficient buildings and districts. SMART CITIES
- ICTs for energy efficiency
- Modeling, analysis, control and vibration monitoring in slender structures
- Advanced man-machine interaction systems via voice recognition and computer vision (tracking of hands, gestures, faces.)
- Automatic recognition of shapes and textures.
- Three-dimensional colorimetric reconstruction
- Procurement and purification of natural compounds and their incorporation to products of high added value
- Application of processes and biotechnological tools to the agrofood industry
- Knowledge-based inelligent systems
- Advanced technologies for effluent treatment: membranes and advanced oxidation processes
- Energy and material recovery of waste and by-products
- Integrated health technologies
- Industrial solutions: Equiment for the testing of nanoparticules, Tyre debeader tools, 3D printing and rapid prototyping system, Laser welding cell
- Energy and environment: Plant for chemical recycling of plastics (PET and PU), Plant for chemical recycling of plastics (PE), Photocatalytic plants with 09-UVC Fluoracadus lamps, Treatment plants with membrane technology, Wastewater treatment plants using membrane bio-reactors, Anaerobic digestion plant, Biomass and waste pelletizing pilot plant
- construction/infrastructure: long 6 short range scanning, structural dynamic assessment
- agrofood: Cooking extrusion, Fibertec, Soxhtec. Viscosimeter, Colorimeter, RVA, Packaging system, Climatic chamber, NIR Calibration
- Health: Agrofood Laboratory, Chemical Processes Laboratory, Biotechnology Laboratory
. - Scientific & technological
- Study / initial design / Simulation
- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up/ Characterisation
- Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Pilot line / demonstration line / pre-series
 
. Yes. service.

EURECAT is the major Technology Centre of Catalonia, in Spain, and the result of the integration, since the 1st May 2015, of the most important Catalan technology centers: Ascamm, Barcelona Media, BDigital and Cetemmsa. Furthermore, along 2016 two more technology centres have joined EURECAT: Technological Center of Nutrition and Health (CTNS) and Technology Center of Composites (CETECOM).

EURECAT provides the industrial and business sector with differential technology and advanced expertise, it offers solutions to their innovation needs and boosts their competitiveness in a fast-paced environment.

EURECAT combines the experience of over 500 professionals, generating an annual income of €38M.

The new centre serves over a thousand businesses, participates in over 100 national and international R&D&i high level strategic projects, and has 73 international patents and 9 technology-based companies. It is made up of eight centres in Catalonia and one more in Latin America (Brazil).  
Eurecat equipment and facilities, infrastructures and laboratories:

• Automation and Mechatronics

• Virtual Product Improvement Laboratory

• Regulatory Evaluation Laboratory

• Plastics Processes Pilot Plant.

• Laboratory of Materials

• Thermoplastic and Thermoset Composites Pilot Plant

• Surface Treatment Laboratory for Functional Printing

• Smart Objects Laboratory

• Research, Textile Technology and High-Performance Fabrics Laboratory and Pilot Plant.

• Culture and Tourism Laboratory

• Virtual Visualisation Laboratory

• Audio Laboratory

• App Testing and Certification Laboratory
. The range of services offered by the centre are primarily focused on: applied R&D, technological services, information technology consulting, highly specialized training, product and service development, and promotion and distribution of technological innovation.

EURECAT aims its services at all business sectors but especially at seven key strategic areas identified by the regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation, RIS3Cat: Food, Energy and Resources, Industrial Systems, Design-based Industries, Industries related to sustainable mobility, Health Industries and cultural, experience-based industries.
. Yes. service.

- Aeronautic,  designs, composites, RM
- ECO and BIO, recycled and sustainable plastics
- Polymer nanotechnology
- Agrifood developments, active and intelligent packaging
- Industrialization
- Hybrid moulds development, RM technologies – polytechnic moulds
- Mecatronics and robotics
- Renewable energy, solar, eolic
- Packaging
- Automotive, rail  and other means of transport
- ICTs
Facilities and equipement related to plastic processing, machining & manufacturing, engineering & design, additive manufacturing, validation test and tuning before industrialisation and ICT applications (See website for details). - Scientific & technological
- Study / initial design / Simulation
- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up/ Characterisation
- Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Pilot line / demonstration line / preseries

- Plastics injection and new technologies in plastic injection.
- Plastics processing and rubber operator.
- Mould design.
- Machine tool operator.
- Innovation management
. Yes. service.

AITEX is a private non-profit making association created in 1985 thanks to an initiative of the local industry and the Generalitat Valenciana (Regional government) through the Valencia Enterprises Competitiveness Institute (IVACE, Instituto Valenciano de Competitividad Empresarial), as an institution that has a common infrastructure for making possible its efforts in themes such as innovation, training, development and applied research. Its ultimate aim is to make this sector more competitive. To achieve this, the Institute promotes modernization actions and the introduction of new and emerging technologies and, in general, any initiatives that will contribute to the industrial progress of the sector.

The work carried out by the Institute is closely linked to the sector’s industries, either through the advanced technical services offered by the Institute (consultancy, market, certification, quality control, training, etc.), the confidential research projects developed at the request of different companies… Laboratories: Chemical  , Physics, Microbiology , Wastewater laboratory, Artificial grass , Agrotextile , biomaterials, biomedicine, health, comfort transpirability and isolation, acoustics, wind tunnel, sensors, electrical conductivity, developments and prototypes, ballistics, sharp weapons, fire, wastewater and environment, sport surface, automotive and public transport, filtering,  nanotechnology, materials, Personal protective equipment, fire Experimental plants: wet laid technology, compounding,, injection moulding, compression moulding, Vacuum infusion process, Low and atmospheric plasma, multifilament and monofilament extrusion plants (for nanoadditivation in fibers), electropinning (nanofibers), laminating, coating, twisting, texturising, crimping, twinsting&covering, stapling fibre, thermal imaging, climate simulator, Softness and feel plant, electric arching, thermotex, NBC, mechanical risks, electrostatics, tertiary treatment palt, recylcing and reusing wastewater plant, RFID , center for textile…. . Yes. service.

R&D:
Sustainable materials: renawable resources, biodegradable and recycled.

Nanomaterials; synthesis and functionalization

Polymer Synthesis: polycondensation, ROP, Radical polymerization, Ionic Polymerization.

Materials with advanced properties; termal and electrical conductivity, fireproof materials, active and Smart materials,

Materials for Additive Manufacturing (AM)

High performance composites

Funtional coatings; self-cleaning, superhydrofobic/superhydrophilic, scratchproof, wear resistance, anti-fouling, anti-icing, barrier properties.

Functional printing

Improvement of the properties of traditional and high performance materials

Improvement of plastic transformation processes (thermoplastics and thermosets)

Development of advanced-curing composites systems

Reduction of contaminants and odours

Recycling and waste management

Analysis & Testing Technical assistance

Training Technical capabilities

Competitive Intelligence and Technology Watch
More than 8,500 m2 of facilities with the latest technological advances for R & D activities.
- Analysis and testing laboratories : Packaging Laboratory, Automotive Laboratory, Construction Laboratory
- Pilot Plants: more than 20 pilot plants for different transformation processes of plastics (Thermoplastic plant, Thermostable plant)
. - Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Pilot line / demonstration line / preseries
- Product validation / certification
- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up/ Characterisation
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Scientific & technological
- Technical Assistance / initial design / Simulation / Feasibility study
-  Specialized training for the Plastic sector.
-  Competitive Intelligence and Technology Watch.
. Yes. service.

AIMEN Technology Centre was set up in 1967 as an initiative of the industry as a non-profit private association. The Centre is focused in developing and strengthening the competitive capacities of companies through the promotion and execution of R&D&i activities, as well as providing technological services of high added value.

The goal of the AIMEN is to be a technological and strategic partner, thus contributing to the improvement of their technological capabilities and increasing their competitiveness.

AIMEN expertise in advanced manufacturing has enabled a cross-sectorial collaboration activity with several industrial areas that go from aeronautics to chemical and petrochemical, automotive, shipbuilding, construction, energy, metal mechanical, etc. To such wide range of industrial sectors, AIMEN provides technological services and engages in R&D&i activities in different areas such as High Performance Materials, Smart Manufacturing, Laser Based Manufacturing, Laser-assisted manufacturing, Micro and…  -   Joining Technology Plant
  -  Laser Processing Centre.
  -  Mechanical Tests Laboratory
  -  Mechanical and Destructive Testing Area
  -  Calibration Laboratory
  -  Mechanical and Non Destructive Testing Area
  -  Heat Treatment Laboratory
  -  Mechanical Workshop
. - Process engineering and development: laser based manufacturing, laser micro-nanofabrication

- Process automation and robotics, including machine vision, monitoring and quality assessment

- Study / initial design / Simulation

- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up

- Characterisation

- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing

- Pilot line / demonstration line / preseries

- Scientific & technological consultancy

- Training

 
. Yes. service.