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About Inasmet
Technological Areas
Client sectors
Services
References
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• Inasmet is a private non-profit making Foundation at the service of industry.
• Its mission is to “contribute pro-actively to economic and social development, promoting and facilitating innovation and technological development processes as a competitive strategy”.
About Inasmet
Mission statement
• 1962: the birth of “The Guipuzcoan Foundrymen’s Technical Association” (ATFG) with its Metallurgy Testing and Analysis Laboratories.
• 1974: the ATFG expands into the field of capital goods technology and technical assistance.
• 1975: the Guipuzcoan Foundrymen’s Technical Association became the Metallurgical Research Association of the Basque Country – INASMET.
• 1982: the first contract to develop a private R&D contract is signed.
• 1988: the start of the first E.E.C. – financed project.
• 1994: the National Industrial Applications of Plasma Centre is inaugurated.
• 1996: INASMET Association changes its legal status and becomes the INASMET Foundation.
• 2000: the new headquarters of INASMET in the Donostia – San Sebastián technological park.
• 2002: INASMET becomes part of TECNALIA Corporación Tecnológica.
History
About Inasmet
• Inasmet has two plants, in Donostia – San Sebastián and Irún, housing the laboratories and the pilot plants, and an office in Cádiz.
• The main offices are in the San Sebastián technological park. They were inaugurated in October 2000.
• Total surface area: · San Sebastián: 15.000 m2
· Irún: 2.000 m2
· Cádiz: 100 m2
Installations
About Inasmet
Human Resources
Doctors/Higher Degrees 135
University Graduates 27
Graduate Trainees 44
Total Qualified Technicians 206
Administration and Support 49
TOTAL STAFF 255
About Inasmet
On the 31st December 2003
• Evolution
Human Resources
About Inasmet
Permenent Staff + Graduate Trainees
Qualified Technicians
* On the 31st December 2003
255
267
223
212
201
206
216
179
173
162
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
Income Breakdown: Year 2003
Income under contract 8.100 42%
– Private Projects 5.766
– Technological Services 2.334
Public Competitive Finance 6.029 31,3%
– European Projects 3.719
– Administration Projects 2.310
Public Generic Finance 3.030 15,7%
– Agreement Basque Govermment
2.913
– Other Administrative Bodies
117
Technological Difussion 582,45 3%
Other Income 1.518,51 8%
TOTAL 19.260(thousands of Euros)
Financial facts and figuresAbout Inasmet
• Evolution of Total Income 2003
About Inasmet
Financial facts and figures
11.984
12.513
15.225
17.470
19.2602003
2002
2001
2000
1999
• All work carried out of INASMET is guaranteed by its Quality System, in accordance with UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2000
• Environmental Management System certified as per ISO 14001
• Accredited by ENAC (90 types of tests and analyses under 120 different standards and specifications) “Our test laboratory accredited as competent according to ISO 17025”:
• Metallic materials.• Steel reinforcements for concrete.• Corrosion.• Welding.• Paints and coatings.• Metal piping.• Tests for the approval of galvanised
malleable cast iron piping accesories.• Non-destructive testing (NDT).• Atmospheric emissions.• Hight Security Locks (HSL).
AccreditationsAbout Inasmet
• Authorisations:• From The Ministry of Health and
Consumer Affairs to carry out testing on Health Products.
• From The Ministry of the Environment as a Collaborating Company with Entities from Cuenca.
• From The Basque Government (Dept. of Industry) as a Controlling Body (CB).
Accreditations
About Inasmet
• Inasmet is one of the founder and member of TECNALIA Corporación Tecnológica.
• Inasmet is a member of the following organisations:– CITMA (Environmental Technological Innovation
Centre)– EITE (Basque Technological Research Centres
Group)– EMARC (European Materials Research
Consortium)– FEDIT (Spanish Federation of Innovation and
Technology Bodies)– PROESPACIO (Spanish Association of Space
Sector Industries)
• And it has formed an alliance with CTIF (Foundry Industries Technical Centre) in France.
Associations and alliances
About Inasmet
• Characterisation
• Behaviour and reliability
• Product Certification
Technological Areas
Characterisation
• Metallic Materials and Metallic Matrix Composites.
• Plastics and Organic Matrix Composite Materials
• Ceramics and Powder Metallurgy
• Joining Technologies and Surface Engineering
Materials and processes
Technological Areas
• Waste minimisation, recycling / recovery and treatment
• Effuent minimisation and treatment
• Waste-to-Energy
• Characterisation-analysis of wastes and liquid and gaseous effluents
• Biomaterials: evaluation of biocompatibility
Chemical technology and the environment
Technological Areas
• Management of Technology
• Product and Process Engineering
Product engineering and Technological management
Technological Areas
Inasmet’s technological focus means that its services and developments have multiple applications in most industrial sectors:
– End Product Manufacturers• Transport
AeronauticalAutomotiveSpaceRailwayNaval
• Building• Capital Goods• Machine Tool• Consumer
Food industryPacking and PackagingHousehold AppliancesElectronics and TelecommunicationsBiomedicine
Client sectorsMain Client Sectors
– Raw Materials Transformers:• Cement• Iron and Steel• Foundry• Forging and Forming• Powder Metallurgy• Plastic
– Industrial Services:• Energy• The Environment
Client sectorsMain Client Sectors
Inasmet’s innovation and technological development projects are focused on satisfying needs of industrial products and processes. These are some of the activities carried out by Inasmet in collaboration with its clients:
• Products and Components:– Functional design of components and products– Selection and Substitution of materials– Prototype manufacture and pre-series– Collaboration in manufacture and
industrialisation– Life-cycle analysis
Services
Innovation and technological development projects
• Processes:– Process simulation– Process optimisation: raw materials cost
reduction, energy saving, timesavings, improvement of quality and reliability of components, etc.
– Manufacturing process control– New process development
• The Environment:– Design of materials and processes using clean
technologies – Recycling of industrial waste– Recovery of metals from industrial waste and
effluents– Re-use of sub-products– Valorisation of waste for energy– Waste Inertisation
Services
Innovation and technological development projects
Services
Private Projects (Private companies with projects: 132)
183
Public Competitive Projects 65
Project agreements (Generic with public institutions)
30
European Union 54
Total Projects 332
R + TD Projects 2003
Innovation and technological development projects
Services
European Projects 2003
Innovation and technological development projects
Craft 20
Growth 12
Ceca - ECSC 5
Thematic Network 6
EESD 3
Marie Curie 1
Investigación Colectiva 1
IP 1
EURATOM 1
ETI 1
Total 54
• Testing services– Mechanical– Chemical– Metallographic– Corrosion, paint and coatings– Electron and Diffraction Microscopy– NDT (Non-Destructive Tests)– Sand laboratory– Numerical simulation– Others
Technological Services Centre
Services
• Certifications and approvals– Biomedical products– Malleable cast iron tubes and accessories– Approval of Welders– Certification of joining technology operators
and engineers– Certification of non-destructive testing staff– Building and public works products– Strongboxes and lockers– Mechanical and electronic security locks– Automotive component materials– Pressure vessels
Services
Technological Services Centre
• Advanced technological services
– Experimental support for product/process development
– Study of processes
– Failure and In-Service behaviour analysis
– Chemical and Environmental technology
– Biotechnology
Services
Technological Services Centre
• Technological services – 2003
Services
Reports and Studies 1187
Certifications 1799
Industrial Clients 645
Technological Services Centre
• Seminars• Courses• Diffusion conferences• Organisation of Congresses• Publications• Demonstrations
Training and technological difussion
Services
Courses given 2002 137
• Nº attending 835
• Companies represented 92
Congresses and conferences 2002
3
• Nº attending 410
Services
Training and technological difussion
• Technological Strategy
• Management of Technology
• Prospecting and Future Trends Studies
• Technological and Competitive Vigilance
• Innovation Diagnostics
Management of technological innovation
Services
• AIMS:– To develop surface treatments that reduce the
wear of the polyethylene component of hip and knee implants.
• TASKS:– Application of surface treatments and ceramic
coatings to Co-Cr-Mo femoral heads and knee condiles.
– Application of surface treatments to polyethylene (UHMWPE)
– Wear testing with a biomechanical simulator.– Biocompatibility testing, “in vitro” and “in vivo”
complying with ISO 10993 standards and FDA requirements (P. Ej.: cytotoxicity, mutagenecity, haemolysis, intracutaneous reactivity, sensibilisation, systemic and subchronic toxicity, implantation and coarcinogenesis.
• ACHIEVEMENTS:– Ion implantation and the DLC (carbon diamond)
coating hardly cause any wear in the knee after 5 million cycles in similar wear conditions to that of the knee.
– Results comparable and even better than those obtained with a ceramic femoral head in identical conditions, with less risk of breakage and a more competitive price.
Compatible biomedical implants and reduced polyethylne wear
References
• AIMS:– Design, manufacture and validation of an
instrument for the in-orbit evaluation of lubricants for space mechanisms.
• TASKS:– Design and manufacture of systems and materials
for the thermal control of the Tribolab instrument.– Development and in-orbit evaluation of solid
lubrication layers based on SMo2 for space mechanisms.
– Installation of the vacuum tribometer at CNPlasma.– Improvement of in-service life under friction and
wear conditions of space mechanisms.– Coordination of the Tribolab solid and liquid
lubrication experiments.
Tribotester is programmed to be launched in February 2005
Lubricants for space mechanisms: Tribolab.
Experimental instrument on the ISS
References
• AIMS:– To develop a process to allow the recycling of
“steel dust”, generated during the manufacture of steel in the electric arc furnace.
• TASKS:– To mix the dust with reducing agents and
ligands, to turn it into reducer briquettes.– To build a pilot plant to produce 300 Tons of
briquettes.– To carry out in-foundry industrial testing.
• ACHIEVEMENTS:– The zinc enrichment of the new steel dust
generated, making its later recovery more financially attractive.
– To exploit the ferrous fraction contained by the EAF dusts to be incorporated into the funace load.
– To minimise by up to 50% the dust generated annually by the sector.
– To avoid depositing waste in landfills.
Solutions for the environmental treatment of eaf steel dust
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