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endika · March 26, 2019 · Leave a Comment

On 25 March, a Colombian delegation visited Cidetec as part of the reciprocal trade mission of businesses and institutional representatives organised by the Provincial Council in partnership with the Gipuzkoa Chamber of Commerce.

The visit, in which 15 people participated representing the Colombian world of business, commerce, education and institutions, included a presentation of Cidetec by its general manager and a tour of the Cidetec Surface Engineering premises.

The visitors showed considerable interest in the nature of the centre, its philosophy and research activity, asking numerous questions and expressing interest in the possibility of establishing ways to work collaboratively with Colombian industry.

endika · March 26, 2019 · Leave a Comment

El día 25 de marzo tuvo lugar la visita a Cidetec por parte de una delegación colombiana en el marco de la misión inversa de empresarios y representantes institucionales organizada por la Diputación Foral con la colaboración de la Cámara de Gipuzkoa.

La visita, en la que participaron 15 personas en representación del mundo empresarial, comercial, educativo e institucional colombiano, incluyó una presentación de Cidetec por parte de su director general y un recorrido por las instalaciones de Cidetec Surface Engineering.

Los visitantes mostraron gran interés por la naturaleza del centro, su filosofía y actividad investigadora, realizando numerosas preguntas e interesándose por la posibilidad de establecer fórmulas de colaboración con la industria colombiana.

endika · March 20, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The monitoring meeting of the ECO-PROTECT project “Development of environmentally sustainable treatments for the protection of aluminium parts in the aerospace industry” took place at the RESCOLL premises on 7 March.

The ECO-PROTECT project, approved in the Eurostars-2 tender, aims to develop and characterise Cr(VI)-free treatments for the protection of aluminium alloys used in the aerospace industry. These alternative treatments include pre-treatment, which will play a fundamental role in the use of these alternatives.

Since there is no single solution for coating different shapes and applications, the development and verification of two coatings is proposed: firstly, a thin organic coating to protect complex shapes and, secondly, an organic chrome-free primer, applied by spray, to coat large parts. Both options must meet aerospace requirements, primarily for external applications.

The project is led by the company, FINITEC ELECTRÓLISIS (Madrid), and includes the participation of the companies CHEMPLATE MATERIALS (Barcelona), RESCOLL (France) and STILZ-CHIMIE (France), as well as subcontracting by CTME (Miranda de Ebro) and CIDETEC (San Sebastián). The project, financed by CDTI in Spain (International Inter-companies programme) and BPI in France, has a budget of €1,506,880 and a project duration of 30 months.

For more information visit: https://www.eurostars-eureka.eu/project/id/11890

endika · March 13, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The CRM Day dedicated to “Transitioning to a low carbon and energy efficient economy: Battery Raw Materials vs CRMs behind the scene” is quickly approaching.

This event is organized by the Critical Raw Materials Alliance (CRM Alliance). The agenda of the event is now available here.

The Conference will take place on 20 March 2019 in Brussels at the Renaissance Brussels Hotel, and features two panels respectively dedicated to Battery Raw Materials and CRMs behind the scene.

Dr Oscar Miguel Crespo, Director of CIDETEC Energy Storage will take part in this outstanding event representing EGVIA, the European Green Vehicles Industrial Association. He will give an invited talk dealing with current battery challenges and technologies for electromobility batteries, highlighting the perspective on CRMs. This is a particularly hot topic nowadays in view of the various initiatives going on at the European level regarding the establishment of local battery manufacturing capabilities, particularly under the point of view of sustainability.

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The Critical Raw Materials Alliance (CRM Alliance) has been created by industry to advocate the importance of CRMs for the European economy and to promote a strong European CRM policy. It is the representative body of primary producers, traders and associations of CRMs. Through its membership, the CRM Alliance represents almost all of the 27 listed critical raw materials and we are steadily growing.

The European Green Vehicles Initiative Association (EGVIA) is an international non-profit making association. Created in 2013, EGVIA currently regroups 84 members from the automotive, smart systems and smart grid industries as well as research centres and universities.

endika · March 11, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The Mat4Rail project, part of the Horizon 2020 programme and funded under the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking, held its first Standardisation Advisory Board meeting in February.The meeting was held at the Madrid headquarters of the Spanish Railway Foundation (Fundación de Ferrocarriles Españoles) and was co-organised by Talgo and CIDETEC.Also as part of the S2R initiative, the Committee included members of the PIVOT project, together with external counsellors from the European Standardisation Committee (ESC)’s different working groups.

In addition to a presentation of the results of both projects so far with regard to new materials and joints for the rail sector, the event also enabled to two major commitments to be achieved.

Firstly, both Mat4Rail and PIVOT committed to active involvement in forming a new standardisation group as part of the CEN TC256 Committee for implementation and approval of New Materials for the rail sector.This working group’s first meeting was held in late February in Brussels and attended by representatives of both projects.

Secondly, the ESC’s representatives undertook to share a new development standard with Mat4Rail and PIVOT, within working group 52 for adhesive bonding for the rail sector, EN WI 000256799 “Adhesive bonding of rail vehicles and parts”.

In short, the meeting was a total success, made patent by both the active collaboration on complementary Shift2Rail projects and the Mat4Rail and PIVOT partners’ effort to ensure that the results of their projects will enable the creation of new standards contemplating the use of new materials – more specifically, composites – and dissimilar adhesive bonds for rail car body structures.

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