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Inasmet-Tecnalia and NASA will be carried out joint projects in the field of environment
03/03/2006
on March 3, 2006
The Inasmet technology centre will carry out environmental improvement programmes and will work on other projects with NASA, as a result of the visit by some of its representatives and a delegation from the Centre of programmes for the prevention of pollution (C3P) at its headquarters in San Sebastian. Olga Domínguez, James Leatherwood and David Amidei were members of the representation of NASA, while the C3P was represented by Carlos M. Caldas, Pelaio Gastelo Branco, Margarita Pinto and Oliveira Santos.
In April 2005 Inasmet-Tecnalia signed a protocol of cooperation and exchange of technology in projects on improvement of the environment with C3P (Centre for programmes for the prevention of pollution). The Protocol included specific programmes to develop and implement materials in products and industrial processes. The purpose, preserving environmental quality and ensuring the competitiveness of industrial sectors.
The C3P is a consortium of centres to promote programmes for the prevention of pollution. In this sense, the C3P Consortium signed an agreement in 2002 with the Environment Directorate of NASA for the development of programmes of environmental cooperation for the prevention of pollution.
The Protocol signed by Inasmet-Tecnalia in April 2005 set out two initial cooperation lines: one is the Elimination of lead in the alloy of tin/lead traditionally used in the electronics industry. The second line is oriented to the technologies of coatings or layers used in the materials, parts or components, in order to avoid the use of polluting or dangerous to the health materials.
According to Inasmet, such technologies are alive today, as it is known that Japan has begun to employ a majority as lead-free in the electronic sector alloys. In the European Union on July 1 this year becomes effective the Directive 2002/95/EC (restriction on the use of prohibited substances) RuSP and affecting addition to lead, hexavalent chromium, mercury, cadmium and flame retarders additives. NASA is currently involved in a way active in the development of international projects aimed at the Elimination of use of substances prohibited in the directive.
Technical solutions for these specific requirements are applicable also to aerospace and diversity of industrial applications, the importance of the programmes of the C3P consortium which highlights. On the other hand, technical advances achieved by NASA and its associated companies may apply also to related sectors through cooperation and transfer in the programmes of the C3P Consortium.
Visit by representatives of NASA.
