Consortium

The Consortium is composed by 12 partners across 7 European countries. A strong, experienced, and interdisciplinary cluster of research institutes and organisations, SMEs and process industry companies that will contribute to the approach and achieve the objectives of the project.

Project Coordinator

Cristina Vega Martínez
criveg@cartif.es

FUNDACION CARTIF

CARTIF is a horizontal, private and non-profit technology center. Its mission is to offer innovative solutions to companies to improve their processes, systems and products, improving their competitiveness and creating new business opportunities.

CARTIF develops R&D projects, directly funded by companies or public funds raised through competitive calls for national and international level. CARTIF also advises public authorities (municipalities and regional governments) in the planning and development of innovative projects with high economic returns. CARTIF manage CAPRI project acting as the coordinator.

http://www.cartif.es

ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA

With more than 12,000 professionals in 65 locations, the Engineering Group designs, develops and manages innovative solutions for the business areas where digitalization is having the biggest impact, such as Digital Finance, Augmented City and Digital Industry, contributing to modernizing the world in which we live and work.

With significant investments in R&D, Engineering plays a leading role in research, by coordinating national and international projects thanks to its team of researchers and data scientists and a solid network of academic partners and universities throughout Europe.

https://www.eng.it/

RCPE

The Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering is a global leader in pharmaceutical engineering sciences. We help our partners to create and manufacture advanced medicines for patients around the world, through optimising products and processes. RCPE’s services encompass the entire value chain of pharmaceutical product development: continuous API synthesis, advanced formulations, next-generation manufacturing, and also device design and optimization. As a non-profit, private company owned by Graz University of Technology, University of Graz and JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, we link outstanding science, application and industry in a business-oriented approach. RCPE is a K1 Competence Centre within the COMET programme, operated by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).

https://www.rcpe.at/en/en_home/

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

The Politecnico di Milano is one of the best scientific-technological universities in the world according to the prestigious QS World University Rankings, classified 1st in Italy and 156th worldwide (Ranking 2018-2019). Moreover, it is ranked among the top 20 universities (according to the QS World University Rankings – by Subject 2018) in all the three areas of specialization: 17th in Engineering, 9th in Architecture and 5th in Design. Founded in 1863 it is the oldest of Milan’s universities. Since 1863, Politecnico di Milano has been active in several scientific and technical fields and will join through the Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering (DIG). In particular, the research group of Manufacturing will be involved in this project with its specific competences in the fields of Manufacturing Strategy, ICT for Manufacturing, Social and Environmental Sustainability in Manufacturing, Product and Service Development, Manufacturing Systems Design, Production and Maintenance Management, Education in Manufacturing in which the group can be considered the leader among the Italian Universities and Research Centers.

https://www.som.polimi.it/en/

VDEH-BETRIEBSFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT GMBH (BFI)

For more than 50 years the BFI has been known as a research partner for the process industry with a special focus on steel production. As a non-profit research institute, the BFI deals with newly emerging issues of great relevance in areas such as energy efficiency, process optimization, measurement and instrumentation technology and Industry 4.0. As a private research institute, the BFI is internationally networked and very familiar with the relevant national and European funding programmes. The BFI provides the skills and expertise to build and lead efficient consortia and to tackle new research topics together with our partners in the process industry, whether in privately or publicly funded research programmes.

www.bfi.de/de/

EIFFAGE INFRAESTRUCTURAS SA

Eiffage Infraestructuras carries on its business activities within the public sector construction and building; concrete and aggregates production; mortars and prefabricated binders and roll-out of agglomerates and road surfaces, leading company in the sector at national level.

Eiffage Infraestructuras was born from the merger of renowned companies within the public works and construction sector: PANASFALTO, RUS, GRUPO LOS SERRANOS and TRIALSA.

Each of these companies contributes with its professionalism, experience, human team, strong industrial potential and client closeness. Alliance that increases the competitiveness and efficiency of these large companies, being able to access larger works, without forgetting their roots.

Furthermore, Eiffage Infraestructuras has stakes in other companies in the sector such as SGASA, PABASFALTO, MEBISA and MASFALT, among others, which enables the Company to expand its services.

http://www.eiffageinfraestructuras.com/

SIDENOR ACEROS ESPECIALES SL

At Sidenor, we are leaders in the production of special types of long steel and one of the leading world manufacturers of forged and cast parts, as well as a major supplier of ca¬librated products in the European market. We have production centres in the Basque Country, Cantabria and Catalonia and sales offices in Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Our highly specialized facilities that are capable of providing ideal solutions to all industrial sectors requiring steel with high service and quality requisites.

http://www.sidenor.com

MONDRAGON SISTEMAS DE INFORMACION SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA (MSI)

Mondragon Sistemas, MSI, is dedicated to projects of the electrification, automation, digitalization and optimization of production processes in several markets like metal, water treatment, glass and paper manufacturing. At MSI we convert technology in powerful tools to improve the productivity of the processes of our customers.

http://www.msigrupo.com

AIMEN TECHNOLOGY CENTER

AIMEN is a private Non-Profit association, located in the Northwest of Spain and constituted by about 90 companies, which supplies technological support to more than 400 companies dedicated to industrial activity related to metalworking, automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding and oil&gas. It is highly specialized in materials and in advanced manufacturing technologies, especially joining technologies and laser technologies applied to materials processing, robotics and automation. AIMEN has a long experience in R&D collaborative projects managing several National and European projects dealing with Key Enabling Technologies such as smart manufacturing, additive manufacturing, collaborative robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital twins, advanced systems of manufacturing processes monitoring, photonics, nanotechnology, advanced materials and nano and micro electronics. With more than 230 employees its main mission is to improve competitiveness and technology know-how of European Manufacturing Industry.