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The Eurecat technology centre has tested integrating electronics and plastic materials to craft new, more sustainable products with high added value, low weight, built-in sensors and advanced features in a plant set up at its Cerdanyola site which manufactures these parts using a cutting-edge technology known as plastronics. “This innovation is much in demand and extremely [...]
Solidança, a social organisation engaged in the social and solidarity economy and with extensive experience in gathering and recovering textile waste under the Roba Amiga brand, has teamed up with the Eurecat technology centre using Catalan Waste Agency grants promoting the circular economy to eco-design a container for collecting post-consumer clothing made from the textile waste [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is presenting new smart mobility solutions which embed real-time information about railways, public transport services, ridesharing and crowdsourcing in technology systems to compare and choose between options and unlock connected and shared public transport. The tools and platforms on show at Rail Live, which is taking place in Malaga, are part [...]
Denvelops and the Eurecat technology centre have devised an architectural hybrid textile prototype which adds new energy and lighting features to building fronts while also delivering greater efficiency, sustainability, innovation, adaptability and design. The purpose of the project was to show that these types of solutions and functions tapping the new hybrid texTILES construction system [...]
BATTECH, the leading battery R&D and innovation centre in southern Europe, has kicked off four strategic European projects this quarter worth more than €4 million. They are designed to unlock sustainability and the circularity of materials in the electric mobility value chain by improving the recovery of lithium-ion battery materials and developing new composites [...]
Speaking on day two of the AI & Big Data Congress, David Malkin, Cogent Labs’ product management director, argued that businesses need to include people in the data validation process for machine learning and artificial intelligence models through “an interaction interface between humans and the AI system which enables them to validate data and [...]
Artificial intelligence applications are extremely wide-ranging and run from personalised medicine and managing an epidemic such as Covid-19 to solutions for cutting energy costs or streamlining water resource management. This is because they can generate consistent conclusions by tapping a wide variety of data sources, as was showcased today at the AI & Big [...]
The TecnoCampus Congress Centre hosted the ‘Digital and sustainable transition of the textile and fashion value chain in Catalonia’ innovation conference attended by some 150 delegates from businesses, industry associations and governments. The presentations underscored the textile and fashion value chain’s eagerness to address sustainability as an opportunity for growth and setting up new [...]
Barcelona has today hosted the closing event in the European Sharework project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, which has rolled out a new smart system for safe and ergonomic collaboration between robots and workers in industrial manufacturing processes by tapping artificial intelligence and process data analysis. The project has developed flexible software made up [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the European LIFE PRISTINE innovation project led by ACCIONA which seeks to eliminate emerging pollutants in the water cycle. This is one of the key measures to promote alternative water resources in response to water scarcity which afflicts over 2.8 billion people worldwide. A number of [...]
