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
eMobility World Congress showcases ultra-thin smart interface for interacting with the new generation of cars
The Eurecat technology centre has developed a smart plastic surface just 3 millimetres thick which has an interface that allows [...]
Eurecat investigates manufacturing advanced materials with graphene for the automotive, aerospace, hydrogen energy and water treatment industries
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European GIANCE project which is to develop and test grapheme-based innovative and recyclable [...]
Eurecat develops new type of ultra-thin smart interface for the new generation of cars
The Eurecat technology centre has developed a smart plastic surface just 3 millimetres thick which has an interface that [...]
Opening the door to high-volume production of printed electronic devices using plastronics technology
The MADRAS project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, has spurred high-volume production of printed electronic devices embedded in plastic parts [...]
Special mention for the project by Eurecat, AINIA, CTAG, CTAEX, AIN and CARTIF researchers at the Meetech Spain 2023 technology Challenge
The team made up of researchers from the Eurecat, AINIA (Valencia Region), CTAG (Galicia), CTAEX (Extremadura), AIN (Navarra) and [...]
Eurecat trials generating more sustainable smart plastics with new features
The Eurecat technology centre has tested integrating electronics and plastic materials to craft new, more sustainable products with high added value, [...]