Activity

Our value contribution focuses on the following activities:

Automotive Industry

Plastics and Composites

• Nanocomposites
• Thermoplastics
• Thermosets
• NVH

Metal Materials

• High-performance materials
• New manufacturing Processes
• Rapid Manufacturing

Bonding

• Adhesives for disassembly
• Conductive adhesives
• Advanced high resistance steel welding

Forming

• Incremental rotary forming
• High speed forming
• High temperature forming 

Electronic products

• On-board ambient intelligence
• Preventive safety

Intelligent manufacturing systems

• Advanced robotics
• Laser forming
• Laser metal polishing
• Computerized vision

Recycling, LCA and LCC

• Specific analysis
• Product and process guidelines
• Cost cutting with recycled material

Aerospace

Propulsion

• Ceramic materials for acceleration chambers in electric thrusters (HET)
• Ionic impact erosion testing
• Ni- and AlTi-intermetal-based materials for solid propulsion compressors
• MEMs micro-thrusters (cold-gas)

Launchers

• Light intermetals and thermal protection systems (TPS)
• Thermal barriers (coatings) and high temperature sensors
• Structural health monitoring in large composite components
• Noise absorption, emission and radiation

Mechanisms - Tribology

• Solid lubricants
• Tribological testing / wear (vacuum)
• Piezo actuators and test benches for mechanisms

Orbital infrastructure – Microgravity instruments

• Design of life support instruments
• Biological sensors and thermal chambers

Satellite systems –advanced structures

• Manufacture of high dimensional stability structures
• Multifunctional composite-based casings for electronic equipment
• Nano-reinforced composites
• Gossamer structures
• Antenna reflectors: new manufacturing processes
• Magnesium-based filters

Encapsulations

• Thermal encapsulations and active and passive substrates for high power HPA and SSPA electronics
• Thermal management subsystems for components, racks and casings
• Heat pipe condensers and high thermal conductivity materials
• Metal foams for thermal management in electronic casings
• Epoxy/CNF-based high thermal conductivity adhesives

Technology Transfer

• ESA TTN Coordination
• Space technology marketing and brokerage
• Feasibility studies for transfer and assessment, market and diversification

Aeronautics

Motor

• Manufacturing materials and engineering
• Special processes
• Design, fault and strain analysis
• Collaboration in concurrent engineering, virtual engineering, e-learning
• Test benches: fatigue, tribological and conventional testing of prototypes
• Inverse engineering, etc.

Aerostructures

• Materials and manufacturing for metal and composite structures
• CAD/ CAE, DMU, CFD, RTM analysis and simulation, assembly
• Non-destructive testing
• Test benches and conventional types

On-board systems

• Design and development of electronic products, EMC
• Energy systems and converters

Aircraft maintenance

• Virtual reality, fault simulation
• Conventional testing
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)