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Eurecat innovates in advanced materials to build more energy-efficient trains

2022-04-17T23:08:25+02:00November 30th, 2021|Audiovisual Technologies, Big Data, Composite material, Consulting, Fires, Functional Printing, Innovation and product development, New Manufacturing Processes, Press Notes, Railway|

The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the CARBODIN (Car Body Shells, Doors and Interiors) project which is to support building lighter and more energy-sustainable passenger trains by developing innovative modular tooling for manufacturing car bodies and carriage shells using composite materials. As part of the project “innovative and versatile moulds and tooling are to be designed and [...]

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Covid-19 ramps up demand for touchless products and systems

2021-05-31T14:58:51+02:00March 31st, 2021|covid19, Functional Printing, Press Notes|

Covid-19 will foster a new mobility which will drive the implementation of emerging technologies such as touchless push-buttons. The Eurecat technology centre believes these solutions will be in high demand in areas such as public transport, leisure facilities, lifts and workspaces in response to the new patterns of behaviour brought about by the coronavirus. Eurecat [...]

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SmartLabels project heads towards smart labels in the wine industry

2022-07-25T16:54:14+02:00March 29th, 2021|Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has taken part in the SmartLabels project which over the last year has explored the feasibility of using new printing technologies in self-adhesive labels for wine bottles such as NFC antennas, invisible ink and unique two-dimensional barcodes. The idea is to closely track the product right across the production and distribution process while preventing counterfeiting and [...]

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Eurecat is at leading European printed electronics trade fair

2022-07-25T16:57:20+02:00March 25th, 2021|Fires, Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the LOPEC fair, the premier European event in printed electronics which this year is being held online together with the SmartEEs2 Technology Acceleration Hub, which seeks to make SMEs more competitive by baking in flexible, portable electronics. “The Eurecat technology centre’s knowhow in printed electronics means we can increasingly bring this technology [...]

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New medical platform to diagnose problems in chronic patients

2021-03-09T09:31:43+01:00September 8th, 2020|Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The ERKSens project promoted by Renalyse, a Rovira i Virgili University (URV) spinoff, together with the Eurecat technology centre and the URV has received €1.3 million from the RETOS programme to bring a device for diagnosing and monitoring haemoglobin and potassium to the market in four years. The funding is part grant and part soft [...]

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Hartmann Group and Eurecat to develop smart dressings to detect and monitor injury infection

2020-10-19T08:31:52+02:00June 29th, 2020|Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Hartmann Group and the Eurecat technology centre have devised a new smart dressing using bio-inks which enable colorimetric detection of bacterial infections. The project is called K-BacTrack and has been funded by the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) as part of its R&D Projects work strand. “The idea is to enhance the quality of life of [...]

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Eurecat develops the first biophotonic implant to deliver therapeutic proteins to Multiple Sclerosis patients

2020-06-19T07:45:00+02:00January 29th, 2020|Functional Printing, Plastic material, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has developed, within the Optogenerapy consortium, the first subcutaneous biophotonic implant using optogenetic technology to deliver doses of therapeutic proteins to patients with Multiple Sclerosis. The device has been pre-clinically validated and features a printed circuit board that activates a light source which controls therapeutic Interferon Beta (IFN-ß) protein production by genetically engineered [...]

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New project demonstrates the feasibility of printing lights, sensors and switches onto aluminium

2020-01-09T08:27:31+01:00June 27th, 2019|Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Girona-based company Tecalum and the Eurecat technology centre (a member of Tecnio) have developed a prototype of a smart device using printed electronics on aluminium. This functioning prototype shows that it is technically feasible to print lights, sensors and switches onto this material in such a way that they are integrated fully into the [...]

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Printed keyboard makes it possible to control audio and video playlists

2019-04-24T13:44:21+02:00March 27th, 2019|Fires, Functional Printing, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Press Notes|

The company NovaCentrix and the Eurecat technology centre (a member of Tecnio) have unveiled a printed keyboard with circuitry and hybridized LEDs that make it possible to control audio and video playlists using an electronic device. The innovation was presented at the Graphispag trade fair, which is taking place in Barcelona until 29 March. The [...]

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Eurecat unveils an intelligent wine bottle that allows its contents to be verified without opening

2019-02-20T14:47:49+01:00February 21st, 2019|Fires, Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre, a member of Tecnio, will use the occasion of this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) to unveil a new technology based on printed electronics. This innovation will pave the way for the manufacture of hitherto unimagined intelligent objects that can be connected to the Internet. One such example is the wine [...]

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