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Opened new facilities in Murcia of the Metal technological Center
29/12/2010
December 29, 2010
Ramón Luis Valcárcel, President of the region of Murcia, opened on Monday December 27 new facilities at the technological centre of the Metal after its expansion, which includes a building with a laboratory of materials and other fire extinguishing equipment, with a total area of 1,200 square meters. The 'Beatrice-Alumine of Vas monastery' building houses the new laboratory of materials, which is equipped with advanced technology instruments for all kinds of trials, in order to improve the quality of them and experiment with new ones.
The technological centre of Metal is the only Spanish representative in the European Committee for Standardization CEN TC70, where rules of portable extinguishers are produced. These standards serve to make portable extinguishers are more effective and possible insurance for its use. Also noteworthy among its facilities the 'ship of fire', a unique Spain and specially designed facility for testing in their 800 square metres of fires controlled to substantiate the effectiveness of fire-fighting equipment.
During the visit to the new Center, the President was accompanied by the Councillor of universities, business and research, Salvador Marín, and the President of the Center, Matías Garrigós, who noted the importance of these laboratories to the murcian companies.
Currently, the technological centre of the Metal of the region develops five research projects for generating knowledge and other 16 projects involving several SMEs. It also has two international projects in progress, one on transfer of technology for the integrated manufacturing of agricultural machinery and the other which deals with the development of different devices for the Elimination of physical barriers to people with disabilities, which is carried out in collaboration with various national and international agencies.
The Centre also has more than 30 workers and 225 member companies. The range of advanced technological services which has allowed that last year will conduct more than 10,000 technological reports for 852 enterprises.
