Industrial Area
Functional printing & embedded systems
Long track record in printing thin-film devices, and this coupled with our conventional electronics capabilities enables us to deliver more flexible and innovative products to businesses
Eurecat has a technology unit with more than ten years of experience in printed electronics and conventional electronics. Together with the centre’s other capabilities, this allows us to deliver solutions to complex and specific challenges in a wide range of sectors including medicine, wellness and health, sport, packaging and mobility.
We are a member of the leading printed electronics clusters and associations such as the OE-A, the Functional Print Cluster and the 3DNEO Advanced Printing Platform. We have received international recognition for our innovations over the years with numerous awards at trade fairs and congresses such as the LOPEC, ChemPlastExpo and the Graphic Communication and Industry Association of Catalonia.
Services
Functional printing
- Formulating and customising functional inks to suit the printing technique or substrate required in each case.
- Surface treatments to modify the physical and chemical characteristics of substrates.
- Printing thin-film devices to obtain flexible devices with the capacity to adapt to practically any type of surface owing to their form factor.
- Printing flexible electronic circuits.
- Embedding and printing radio frequency identification (RFID) and near field communication (NFC) antennas.
- Identifying and evaluating opportunities for enhancing existing products by introducing printed or flexible electronics.
In-Mould Electronics (IME)
- Designing functional parts with embedded electronic devices.
- Printing electronic circuits and hybridisation of discrete components.
- Thermoforming plastic parts with functional printing and decorative inks.
- Overmoulding plastic parts with functional inks and decorative inks.
- Overmoulding printed electronics with rigid plastic and flexible elastomers.
Printed sensors and actuators
- Formulating and customising functional inks to suit the printing technique or substrate required in each case.
- Surface treatments to modify the physical and chemical characteristics of substrates.
- Printing thin-film devices to obtain flexible devices with the capacity to adapt to practically any type of surface owing to their form factor.
- Printing flexible electronic circuits.
- Embedding and printing radio frequency identification (RFID) and near field communication (NFC) antennas.
- Identifying and evaluating opportunities for enhancing existing products by introducing printed or flexible electronics.
Smart Electronic Devices
- Innovation, design and development of new applications including embedding electronics in all kinds of smart devices.
- Developing bespoke hardware and firmware.
- Developing wearables.
- Wireless communication.
- Artificial intelligence in embedded systems.
- Signal analysis and processing.
- Developing bespoke apps.
Plastronic Pilot Plant
Plastronics is an emerging technology combining electronics and plastics to create products with high-added value, and advanced functions or features.
Eurecat’s commitment to functional printing has led it to set up a plastronics pilot plant, the only one of its kind in southern Europe, to enable companies to test proof-of-concepts incorporating printed and hybrid electronics on plastic surfaces for a range of applications.
The plant consists of two clean rooms that allow for seamless combination of two manufacturing processes: one for printing and electronics and the other for plastics processes.
Most representative sectors
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Contact
Cristina Casellas
Director of the Functional Printing & Embedded Devices Unit at Eurecat
MBA. Chemical Technical Engineer specialized in the development of materials, processes, and products from the School of Industrial Technical Engineering of Barcelona (EUETIB), affiliated with UPC. She has over 8 years of experience in the chemical industry, mainly in the formulation and deposition of inks and resins. Since 2007, she has focused on the field of printed electronics, initially at the CETEMMSA technology center, leading research and innovation projects, and since 2015 at Eurecat Technology Centre of Catalonia as a technology transfer manager, promoting the unit’s technological capabilities to meet market needs. She currently leads the Functional Printing and Integrated Devices Unit at Eurecat.
- +34 687 79 79 95
- cristina.casellas@eurecat.org
Highlighted projects
SYNergistic architectures for next gen Agrivoltaics incorporating TRAnsparent organic solar modules.
Developing optogenetic cell therapy implants using printed electronics with biocompatible materials.
Integration of low-voltage circuits in composite panels for the manufacture of lighter and more efficient railway and train body shells.
Developing new materials and manufacturing processes for high-volume production of organic and large area electronic (OLAE) devices.
Multimedia
Lighting cube
Development of a flexible keyboard, light as paper, capable of controlling different lighting sequences of methacrylate cubes.
News
Organic photovoltaic panels for energy self-sufficient greenhouses
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Eurecat brings its new developments in digital technologies to the Digital Enterprise Show in Malaga
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Eurecat and Gràfiques Manlleu devise labelling system using artificial intelligence and photonics to ensure zero-error production
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Eurecat breaks new ground in harnessing printed electronics for real-time water quality monitoring
This week at LOPEC, the preeminent event in printed electronics held in Munich, the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing [...]
Eurecat presents robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and sustainability technologies for the agricultural industry
This week at Expo AgriTech 2024 in Malaga, the Eurecat technology centre is presenting innovative technologies in robotics, artificial [...]
Robotic system for dismantling and recycling computers
The Eurecat technology centre has presented at the Advanced Manufacturing Madrid trade fair the DismantBot project which addresses robotisation [...]