The Eurecat technology centre has unveiled patented solutions and technologies at the Transfiere Forum that meet challenges in healthy food and nutrition. They include a multi-ingredient for treating obesity, fatty liver disease and some menopausal symptoms, a natural dipeptide compound which reduces the amount of salt in food and a precision nutrition tool harnessing metabolism analysis.
Eurecat has also showcased at Transfiere technologies for cutting nitrogen dioxide emissions in industrial settings and new technological solutions for manufacturing composite materials for use in the transport and automotive industry. Eurecat has additionally presented new catalysts for the petrochemical industry and refineries.
“These solutions are expected to have an economic impact on businesses and most of all on the environment, making a positive contribution to our society,” says Joan Guasch, International Development and R&D and Innovation Policies Director at Eurecat, who underscores “Eurecat’s growth in terms of scientific, technological and business impact.”
In one of the conference sessions, Myriam García-Berro, Technology and Transfer Director at Eurecat, pointed out that “technology centres anticipate upcoming challenges for businesses and we have in place the technology infrastructures where they can learn about, test and start using innovations before implementing them.” She stressed that “technological hybridisation is in many cases the solution to companies’ challenges and technology centres are well-equipped to perform these hybridisations with practical and industrial purposes.”
In its drive for technology transfer to generate value for enterprises and society, since 2015 Eurecat has registered a total of 231 patents for highly innovative industrial, digital, biotech and sustainability technologies, 30 of which came in 2024. There are currently 10 tech-based spin-offs promoted by Eurecat and in which it has a stake.
Eurecat has attended Transfiere at the Spanish Federation of Technology Centres (Fedit) booth for the fifth year in a row. Here it has taken part in a gathering which has showcased the role of technology centres in bolstering industry, achieving technological sovereignty and economic sustainability and unlocking strategic technologies including decarbonisation, the energy and digital transitions and deep tech.
Likewise, OmicsTech (Centre for Omic Sciences), a joint Eurecat and Rovira i Virgili University unit, has been at the booth run by Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS) under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
