Database providing access to the High Technology Network's industrial research offering: research competences, type of analyses and tests available at the Laboratories. Companies can consult the Catalogue to find Laboratories and researchers that match their needs.
Competence
Additive manufacturing processes (3D printing, SLA rapid prototyping, etc.)
Analysis of standards and regulations: laws and guidelines for protected, biological raw material, and processing
Biomarker identification to assess the effects of bioactive components in humans
Cladding
Conventional welding processes (arc, TIG, MIG / MAG, resistance, etc.)
Design of new molecular markers for traceability of specific varietal components
Effects of industrial processes on the nutritional qualities of foods
Evaluation of dietary habits of the population in order to identify risk behaviours and prevention strategies
Evaluation of molecular transformations during food processing
Evaluation of the interactions between food matrix and bioactive components
Evaluation of the organoleptic characteristics of food bioactive components and related food
Evaluation of the physical, chemical, and microbial characteristics of products
Extraction of bioactive components from food waste (polyphenols, omega3 and omega6 fatty acids)
Food traceability by evaluation of functional components
Food traceability by genetic analysis
Food traceability by spectroscopic techniques, NMR, proteomic and peptidomic methods for the identification of ingredients or contaminants
Functional compounds characterization from raw materials, ingredients, food and food industry left-overs
Generation and optimization of the part program
Genetic methods for varietal identification
Heat treatments of conventional and not conventional metal alloys
Human studies for the validation of nutritional/health claims (including analysis of biological samples and statistical analysis of the results)
Machining processes for metal removal (turning, milling, drilling, reaming, broaching, grinding, etc.)
Market survey and consumer trends towards functional foods
Massive deformation processes (forging, pressing, rolling mill, extrusion, drawing, etc.)
Mathematical modelling for product/process optimization
Melting processes (in sand, in shell, die casting, investment casting, etc.)
Methods for the specific and varietal identification based on single components within blends
Microprocessing (micro-milling, -drilling, -laser, -waterjet, etc.)
Molecular characterization of DNA, protein, peptides and metabolites
Non-conventional machining processes (laser, plasma, waterjet, chemical and electrochemical , ultrasonic, electrical discharge, etc.)
Optimization of energy consumption
Optimization of raw material selection for food processing/products
Packaging, designing and testing: choice of the proper materials for the desired product
Packaging, designing and testing: shelf-life evaluation of food products and bioactive components
Preparation of the nutritional/health claims application
Processes of ceramic materials production / machining (massive, dense / porous, thick films, etc.)
Processes of powder sintering
Processes of production / machining of products in glass
Processes of production / machining of products in polymer materials
Processes of production / machining of products of composite materials