Ascamm Registers a growth of 23,7% during 2011
8 May 2012
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Ascamm Allocated a total of 8 million euros in destined investments to new facilities and equipment.
Treats , as it has informed from Ascamm, of a year of full expansion, in which it has proceeded to the inauguration of the new destined building to investigation and to companies of technological base (EBTs), with laboratories of robotics, mecatrónica, composites, navigation and positioning and also Rapid Manufacturing.
This expansionary politics has allowed to Ascamm inaugurate his offices in the Parc Científic of Gironinginga, the new installations of learning in Sabadell and carry out the absorption of the Centre Tecnològic of L'Aeronàutica i of l'Espai (CTAE). During this same exercise initiate the absorption of the Centre Tecnològic of the Construction (IMAT), that has completed in the first months of this year. Likewise, it has proceeded to the constitution of the Unitat Conjoint of Recerca with NTE-SENER.
As it gives off of the economic memory and of corresponding activities to the 2011, along the year have developed 86 new projects of R&D (innovative solutions with own technology), with more than 200 companies participants, and has proceeded to the creation of a new company of technological base, Torrot Electric Europe, devoted to the manufacture of electrical motorbikes.
This new company adds to which have created previously, Neos Surgery, Plastia, Hexascreen and Ultrasion.
Beside the considerable increase of his capacity in investigation and technological development, Ascamm has reinforced his formative activity to give answer to the needs of the companies and of the labour market. In this sense, has created a new postgrado of composites and have given a total of 3.748 formative hours.
Regarding the activity related directly with business services, along the 2011 have created new services of essay and new capacities of technical assistance and has improved the activity of technical support in different international processes of industrialisation. In total have loaned 1.331 business services.
The total of own patents developed directly from the Technological Centre of Ascamm rise to 25, that are related with 9 families of products/distinct technologies.
The president of the Foundation Ascamm, Antoni Peñarroya, signals in this regard that “the expansion carried out during the past year, that completes the work and the growth that has come developing in previous exercises, consolidates us definitively like the main technological centre of Catalonia and a clear concerning international level”.
