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On 27 November, Mater will open its doors to serve all those companies and professionals seeking to realize new projects

The Fad opens ' Mater. Materials Center ', a new tool of innovation for enterprises

Drafting PU04/11/2008

On Thursday, November 27 opens its doors at the headquarters of the Fad in Barcelona ' Mater. Materials Center ' to put at the disposal of professionals and companies more innovative materials and the most up-to-date information on them.

After the informative exhibition ' Mater in progress. New materials, new industry ', that it could be seen in the Fad (promotion of the arts and design) from February 14 to 26 April and that it was visited by more than 20,000 people, the Fad is launching the Mater materials Centera new tool in the service of business innovation. On Thursday, November 27 Mater will open its doors to all those companies and professionals seeking to realize new projects, with innovation in materials as the common denominator. In addition to a 'materialoteca' in which you can see and touch 800 new materials, the Center offers consultancy to companies and professionals, as well as courses and conferences.

Mater is the first multisectoral materials Center of Spain

' Mater. Materials Center ' born with a vocation to become a space of dissemination, documentation, and activism around materials and their associated technologies. The opening of the Center is the culmination of a long journey of investigation, which has contacted some 4,000 Spanish companies, as well as universities and technological centres, with the involvement of experts from CDTI, CSIC, the Directorate General of Industrial development of the Ministry of industryTourism and trade and the Cotec Foundation. Mater is the first multisectoral materials Center of Spain. Companies, guaranteed a place to display key, as he concentrates on materials of the various industrial sectors, which can facilitate the transfer of technology between sectors and a large influx of professionals. Mater is part of an international network of centres of materials, with headquarters in Paris, Antwerp and Prague, offering news in materials at European level. Mater has contributed in this network bringing the best materials made by Spanish companies, and to access to innovative materials made in the rest of Europe.

Mater is a project of the promotion of Arts and design (Fad) to the Ministry of industry, tourism and trade that is born of the growing importance that charge the materials in the development of society. Begins with the exhibition ' Mater in progress. "New materials, new industry" that I can see in the Hall of exhibitions Fad between February 8 and on April 28 this year, and that it is intended to display and disseminate innovation and technological development through materials.

The project culminates with the Constitution of Mater as a library of materials and permanent centre of discussion, Exchange, consultation and information that will benefit from the knowledge generated by the agents who work daily in this area and where the materials are designed as an engine of progress at the service of everyone.

Associated with the exhibition, has published a book of more than 1,400 pages formed of three volumes.

' Mater. Materials Center ' is located on the third floor of the headquarters of the SDF, in the Centre of Barcelona (Pl. dels Àngels, 5-6). And it has an area of 200 square meters, where users can view both the physical materials and the joint database of the network of European centres to which it belongs.