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IK4 incorporates to the Biscayan technological centre Azterlan like his ninth partner
22/12/2011
22 December 2011
The technological alliance IK4 has oficializado the incorporation of the ninth partner to his project. It treats of Azterlan, centre of investigation with more than 30 years of experience, with headquarters in Durango (Biscay) and specialised in metallurgy. The incorporation of Azterlan to IK4 did official the past day 20 December with the signature of an agreement subscribed by the presidents of Azterlan, Alberto Oribe, and IK4, Jesús María Iriondo, completing a process that initiated the past 31 January.
Azterlan Converts like this in the ninth partner of IK4 and will add his capacities to the ones of the eight centres that already form part of the alliance (Ceit, Cidetec, Gaiker, Ideko, Ikerlan, Lortek, Tekniker and Vicomtech). This incorporation allows to IK4 enrich his technological offer, based in the specialisation and the excellence researcher, with a clear vocation to transform it in value for the companies.
Azterlan Is a technological centre specialised in metallurgy, oriented to the development of the investigation applied, the innovation and the technological services. With a human team closely of 100 professionals, Azterlan centres his activity in the specialisation in metallurgy, his command of the technologies of transformation and his internationalisation, what allows him occupy positions of avant-garde in the entramado industrial European, where keeps a narrow collaboration with universities and other centres of investigation.
