The Eurecat technology centre has more than twenty highly specialised laboratories bringing together over 200 associated services delivering technological solutions to businesses to enable them to undertake complex industrial or innovation projects by harnessing digital, industrial, biotech and sustainability technologies and their hybridisation.
To provide all the potential these resources have for the performance of complex projects by the productive ecosystem, the technology centre has set up the Eurecat Labs website, a new online showcase for the technology facilities and capabilities it offers companies along with a wide range of bespoke and standard testing plus advanced analysis, characterisation and technology hybridisation services.
This is a “commitment to empower the performance of complex projects with enterprises from all types of productive sectors and is part of a package of outreach actions to publicise the technology centre’s capabilities,” says Raúl López Domingo, Eurecat’s business developer for Materials and Laboratories.
Eurecat has laboratories for industrial, nutrition and food technologies, biotechnology and omic sciences, metallic and ceramic materials, 3D audio, battery technology, energy technology, environmental technology and analysis, analysis and characterisation of polymeric materials, chemical technologies, textile materials, ultrasound, injection, optics and photonics, sustainable construction, microwaves and plasma, perception and cognition, plastronics, smart objects and smart materials and more.
Eurecat seeks “to make its global technological infrastructure available to businesses and other research and technology organisations to improve and fast-track analysis and testing services in areas including sustainability, energy, batteries, polymer, textile, ceramic and smart materials technology, nutrition and health, plastronics, omic sciences, hydrogen and decarbonisation and optics and photonics,” points out Neus Bahí Vives, a researcher and head of Eurecat’s Sustainability Area laboratories.
Eurecat’s laboratories are spread across the technology centre’s sites in Barcelona, Cerdanyola, Lleida, Manresa, Mataró, Canet de Mar, Reus, Tarragona and Girona, where it has recently set up in conjunction with the University of Girona the 3Digital Manufacturing Lab which has an open and collaborative infrastructure designed to promote the transfer of knowledge in advanced manufacturing technologies and digital manufacturing coupled with developing new technological solutions in advanced manufacturing systems and their application in innovative high added-value products.
Eurecat also has laboratories and pilot plants in Tarragona featuring advanced reactors to produce chemicals and synthetic fuels from CO2 and renewable hydrogen to help companies test new processes which can be scaled up and applied in their industrial plant production.
