LEITAT Technological Center
LEITAT Technological Center

Spain: Catalonia

Overview

LEITAT is a non-profit organization, specialised in material, device and production technologies. LEITAT develops R&D activities in the areas of material sciences, environment, surface treatments, biotechnologies and low carbon energies with deep knowledge and experience in technologic transfers to several industrial sectors (chemistry & material, transport, health, packaging, energy, textile, detergency, environment, cosmetic, pharmacy, building, food, sport, maritime and security). LEITAT is recognized by the Spanish government as a CIT (Centre of Technological Innovation) and is one of the 5 Technology centres which are accredited by the Regional Government of Catalonia.

Main activities can be summarized by the following key knowledge divisions: 

Industrial Biotechnology
Bioinvitro
Biomed
Nanohealth & Safety
Analytical Chemistry
Fast moving consumer goods
Nanomaterials
Advanced Polymers
Surface treatments
Textile technologies
Smart systems
New production processes
… The equipment available at LEITAT covers broad range of applications and techniques, as broad as the ‘Key Enabling Technologies’ described by the European Commission. LEITAT owns suitable facilities with small, medium and pilot plant equipments that allow to interact with any technology along the TRL scale from 3 to 9.

Infrastructures and equipement related to technology area under focus, including (non exhaustive list):  microbiology lab with pilot scale fat crystallizer and pilot scale homogenizer, in vitro technologies, Facilities and equipments for in vitro and in vivo toxicological studies of nanomaterials and nanocomposites, analytical chemistry equipments, consumer goog testing facilities (including humidity, temperature, UV aging, stability testing, hard surface testing), nanomaterials characterisation, advanced polymer equipments (extruer, mould injection, compounder, polymerization reactor and related characterisation equipments), surface treatment technologies, textile technologies & equipments…. LEITAT can provide a full range of services the different industrial sectors going from material design, testing and processing, to the development of prototypes. In particular, the several testing departments at LEITAT offer services for the determination of more than 800 physical and chemical parameters (including ISO Certification and Normalization).

- Scientific & technological
- Study / initial design / Simulation
- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up/ Characterisation
- Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Pilot line / demonstration line / preseries
- Product validation / certification
 
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Sectors
Aeronautics & space - Automotive - Chemicals - Construction & building sector - Consumer goods/products - Energy - Environment - Agro-food - Electronics - Healthcare - Machinery - Textiles
Technology
Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 - Robotics / Human machine interaction - Process industry (processing of novel materials, structures, etc.) - Monitoring and control - Additive manufacturing - High-performance production (flexibility, productivity, precision and zero defect) - Intelligent/ sensor-based equipment - Electronic and optical functional materials - Environmental materials (e.g. recycling, recourse efficiency, less impact, CO2 capture/ utilisation) - Industrial materials (incl. catalysts, membranes, adhesives, filters) - High performance materials (strong, light weight, resistant) - Materials for energy storage and generation - Smart and multifunctional materials (incl. phase change, shape memory, self-healing, self-manufacturing) - Surface engineering and coatings - Polymers, bioplastics - Enzymes - Biobased chemicals - Biofuels - Outsides system connectivity (communication, data transfer, wifi) - Power electronics - Printed/flexible electronics - Heterogeneous components & more than Moore (MEMS, NEMS, sensors, transducers) - Heterogeneous integration/embedded systems - Nanomedicine - Nanomembranes - Nanostructured coatings - Nanoparticles Nanowires and tubes - Nanoemulsions and pigments - Photodetectors (solar cells, photo-diodes, photo-transistors) - Lighting (LED, OLED) - Optical components & systems
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