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 generation of cars.
Cristina Casellas, head of Technology Transfer in Eurecat’s Functional Printing and Embedded Devices Unit, accepted the award which recognises the technology centre’s prominent position in plastronics.
The prototype has an interface that allows users to interact and communicate with a machine, software or intuitive system with built-in LED lighting and capacitive sensors.
The innovation has been developed at Eurecat’s plastronics pilot plant, a leader in functional printing and embedded devices, which makes it possible to build low-cost, high-performance printed electronics into plastic structural parts.
