The European project CiSMA, coordinated by the technology centre Eurecat and with a budget of nearly €4.5 million, is to develop 100 percent recycled steel made from scrap and produced in an electric arc furnace to help cut CO2 footprint, boost circular economy and reduce EU’s dependency to critical raw materials in the automotive, [...]
Designing and manufacturing specific chips for key sectors of the economy is one of the technological trends set to shape 2025 says the scientific team at the Eurecat technology centre. They also predict that generative artificial intelligence will continue to grow in the coming year with disruptive applications and greater integration with technologies including [...]
BATTECH, the joint research unit run by the Eurecat technology centre and the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), is this week showcasing technological innovations at the Battery Innovation Days, hosted this year in Barcelona, to make headway in recycling and reusing electric batteries at the end of their service life. As a pacesetter [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has picked up the “Best Product Design and Development Innovation” prize at the Advanced Manufacturing Madrid trade fair for the Púlsar project in which it has developed a smart plastic surface just 3 millimetres thick that is expected to be embedded in the central electronic control system of the new [...]
This week at the Automotive Interiors trade fair in Stuttgart (Germany), the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing new technological solutions and innovations which include shape-memory fabrics, visual comfort and electroluminescent filaments along with smart plastics to add functionalities to car interior materials. The automotive industry “is fully engaged in digital transformation and also embedding [...]
Miquel Rey, Director General of Business, and Xavier Plantà, Director of Eurecat’s Industrial Area, have visited car brand Chery and the facilities of HRC Composites in China. Carmaker Chery, which will soon kick off production in Barcelona, has gone from manufacturing one to two and a half million cars in the last four years [...]
The Future: Fast Forward group held the signing ceremony of the collaboration agreement with CaixaBank, the Eurecat technology centre and Telefónica in Madrid. This event, which in addition to the signing also included a round table discussion, was attended by Gonzalo Alcubilla, Corporate Banking Director at CaixaBank; Daniel Altimiras, President of Eurecat; Sergio Oslé, [...]
New mobility is being shaped by major trends, such as the application of new smart solutions that lead to its management and optimisation, both in terms of people and goods, and the decarbonisation of the sector, through technologies for electrification and the use of hydrogen as an energy vector, as is evident these days [...]
The European FRONTIER project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, has developed a smart collaborative platform to optimise communication between transport stakeholders to reduce traffic congestion, predict incidents and help make management decisions. The platform, called ANTME (Autonomous Network and Traffic Management Engine), optimises traffic control by monitoring incidents such as road works or [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has showcased at the Advanced Factories trade fair advanced manufacturing solutions drawing on artificial intelligence to transform industrial processes in the textile, automotive, construction and other sectors and unlock Industry 4.0 in enterprises. Specifically, Eurecat has exhibited at Advanced Factories a solution harnessing photonics, the Internet of Things and artificial [...]
