About Inasmet

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3. About Inasmet Mission statement • Inasmet is a private non-profit making Foundation at the service of industry. • Its mission is to “contribute pro-actively to economic and social development, promoting and facilitating innovation and technological development processes as a competitive strategy”.

4. About Inasmet History • 1962: the birth of “The Guipuzcoan Foundrymen’s Technical Association” (ATFG) with its Metallurgy Testing and Analysis Laboratories. • 1974: the ATFG expands into the field of capital goods technology and technical assistance. • 1975: the Guipuzcoan Foundrymen’s Technical Association became the Metallurgical Research Association of the Basque Country – INASMET. • 1982: the first contract to develop a private R&D contract is signed. • 1988: the start of the first E.E.C. – financed project. • 1994: the National Industrial Applications of Plasma Centre is inaugurated. • 1996: INASMET Association changes its legal status and becomes the INASMET Foundation. • 2000: the new headquarters of INASMET in the Donostia – San Sebastián technological park. • 2002: INASMET becomes part of TECNALIA Corporación Tecnológica.

5. About Inasmet Installations • Inasmet has two plants, in Donostia – San Sebastián and Irún, housing the laboratories and the pilot plants, and an office in Cádiz. • The main offices are in the San Sebastián technological park. They were inaugurated in October 2000. • Total surface area: · San Sebastián: 15.000 m2 · Irún: 2.000 m2 · Cádiz: 100 m2

6. About Inasmet Human Resources On the 31st December 2003

7. Permenent Staff + Graduate Trainees Qualified Technicians About Inasmet Human Resources • Evolution * On the 31st December 2003

8. About Inasmet Financial facts and figures Income Breakdown: Year 2003 (thousands of Euros)

9. About Inasmet Financial facts and figures • Evolution of Total Income 2003

10. About Inasmet Accreditations • All work carried out of INASMET is guaranteed by its Quality System, in accordance with UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2000 • Environmental Management System certified as per ISO 14001 • Accredited by ENAC (90 types of tests and analyses under 120 different standards and specifications) “Our test laboratory accredited as competent according to ISO 17025”: • Metallic materials. • Steel reinforcements for concrete. • Corrosion. • Welding. • Paints and coatings. • Metal piping. • Tests for the approval of galvanised malleable cast iron piping accesories. • Non-destructive testing (NDT). • Atmospheric emissions. • Hight Security Locks (HSL).

11. About Inasmet Accreditations • Authorisations: • From The Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs to carry out testing on Health Products. • From The Ministry of the Environment as a Collaborating Company with Entities from Cuenca. • From The Basque Government (Dept. of Industry) as a Controlling Body (CB).

12. About Inasmet Associations and alliances • Inasmet is one of the founder and member of TECNALIA Corporación Tecnológica. • Inasmet is a member of the following organisations: • CITMA (Environmental Technological Innovation Centre) • EITE (Basque Technological Research Centres Group) • EMARC (European Materials Research Consortium) • FEDIT (Spanish Federation of Innovation and Technology Bodies) • PROESPACIO (Spanish Association of Space Sector Industries) • And it has formed an alliance with CTIF (Foundry Industries Technical Centre) in France.

13. Technological Areas Characterisation • Characterisation • Behaviour and reliability • Product Certification

14. Technological Areas Materials and processes • Metallic Materials and Metallic Matrix Composites. • Plastics and Organic Matrix Composite Materials • Ceramics and Powder Metallurgy • Joining Technologies and Surface Engineering

15. Technological Areas Chemical technology and the environment • Waste minimisation, recycling / recovery and treatment • Effuent minimisation and treatment • Waste-to-Energy • Characterisation-analysis of wastes and liquid and gaseous effluents • Biomaterials: evaluation of biocompatibility

16. Technological Areas Product engineering and Technological management • Management of Technology • Product and Process Engineering

17. Client sectors Main Client Sectors Inasmet’s technological focus means that its services and developments have multiple applications in most industrial sectors: • End Product Manufacturers • Transport Aeronautical Automotive Space Railway Naval • Building • Capital Goods • Machine Tool • Consumer Food industry Packing and Packaging Household Appliances Electronics and Telecommunications Biomedicine

18. Client sectors Main Client Sectors • Raw Materials Transformers: • Cement • Iron and Steel • Foundry • Forging and Forming • Powder Metallurgy • Plastic • Industrial Services: • Energy • The Environment

19. Services Innovation and technological development projects Inasmet’s innovation and technological development projects are focused on satisfying needs of industrial products and processes. These are some of the activities carried out by Inasmet in collaboration with its clients: • Products and Components: • Functional design of components and products • Selection and Substitution of materials • Prototype manufacture and pre-series • Collaboration in manufacture and industrialisation • Life-cycle analysis

20. Services Innovation and technological development projects • Processes: • Process simulation • Process optimisation: raw materials cost reduction, energy saving, timesavings, improvement of quality and reliability of components, etc. • Manufacturing process control • New process development • The Environment: • Design of materials and processes using clean technologies • Recycling of industrial waste • Recovery of metals from industrial waste and effluents • Re-use of sub-products • Valorisation of waste for energy • Waste Inertisation

21. Services Innovation and technological development projects R + TD Projects 2003

22. Services Innovation and technological development projects European Projects 2003

23. Services Technological Services Centre • Testing services • Mechanical • Chemical • Metallographic • Corrosion, paint and coatings • Electron and Diffraction Microscopy • NDT (Non-Destructive Tests) • Sand laboratory • Numerical simulation • Others

24. Services Technological Services Centre • Certifications and approvals • Biomedical products • Malleable cast iron tubes and accessories • Approval of Welders • Certification of joining technology operators and engineers • Certification of non-destructive testing staff • Building and public works products • Strongboxes and lockers • Mechanical and electronic security locks • Automotive component materials • Pressure vessels

25. Services Technological Services Centre • Advanced technological services • Experimental support for product/process development • Study of processes • Failure and In-Service behaviour analysis • Chemical and Environmental technology • Biotechnology

26. Services Technological Services Centre • Technological services – 2003

27. Services Training and technological difussion • Seminars • Courses • Diffusion conferences • Organisation of Congresses • Publications • Demonstrations

28. Services Training and technological difussion

29. Services Management of technological innovation • Technological Strategy • Management of Technology • Prospecting and Future Trends Studies • Technological and Competitive Vigilance • Innovation Diagnostics

30. References Compatible biomedical implants and reduced polyethylne wear • AIMS: • To develop surface treatments that reduce the wear of the polyethylene component of hip and knee implants. • TASKS: • Application of surface treatments and ceramic coatings to Co-Cr-Mo femoral heads and knee condiles. • Application of surface treatments to polyethylene (UHMWPE) • Wear testing with a biomechanical simulator. • Biocompatibility testing, “in vitro” and “in vivo” complying with ISO 10993 standards and FDA requirements (P. Ej.: cytotoxicity, mutagenecity, haemolysis, intracutaneous reactivity, sensibilisation, systemic and subchronic toxicity, implantation and coarcinogenesis. • ACHIEVEMENTS: • Ion implantation and the DLC (carbon diamond) coating hardly cause any wear in the knee after 5 million cycles in similar wear conditions to that of the knee. • Results comparable and even better than those obtained with a ceramic femoral head in identical conditions, with less risk of breakage and a more competitive price.

31. References Lubricants for space mechanisms: Tribolab. Experimental instrument on the ISS • AIMS: • Design, manufacture and validation of an instrument for the in-orbit evaluation of lubricants for space mechanisms. • TASKS: • Design and manufacture of systems and materials for the thermal control of the Tribolab instrument. • Development and in-orbit evaluation of solid lubrication layers based on SMo2 for space mechanisms. • Installation of the vacuum tribometer at CNPlasma. • Improvement of in-service life under friction and wear conditions of space mechanisms. • Coordination of the Tribolab solid and liquid lubrication experiments. Tribotester is programmed to be launched in February 2005

32. References Solutions for the environmental treatment of eaf steel dust • AIMS: • To develop a process to allow the recycling of “steel dust”, generated during the manufacture of steel in the electric arc furnace. • TASKS: • To mix the dust with reducing agents and ligands, to turn it into reducer briquettes. • To build a pilot plant to produce 300 Tons of briquettes. • To carry out in-foundry industrial testing. • ACHIEVEMENTS: • The zinc enrichment of the new steel dust generated, making its later recovery more financially attractive. • To exploit the ferrous fraction contained by the EAF dusts to be incorporated into the funace load. • To minimise by up to 50% the dust generated annually by the sector. • To avoid depositing waste in landfills.