R&D for the Future
Projects
Our compromise with R&D has led us to participate in several publicly funded projects devoted to the generation of innovative know-how. Some of the projects where CellMat Technologies is currently involved are:
BIODESIGN4INSULATION: BIODESIGN OF POLYURETHANE FOR THERMAL, ACOUSTIC ANDDAMPING INSULATION APPLICATIONS
Call & Funding Entities: Eurostars 3 – Call 5. Funded by Centre for the Development of Technology and Innovation (CDTI)
Deadline for completion: 1 June 2024 – 31 May 2027
BIODESIGN4INSULATION aims at innovating and integrating polyurethane materials produced using high contents of bio-based materials into various applications such as refrigerators, insulated pipes and dishwashers for enhanced thermal insulation, acoustic insulation, and vibration damping.
TERRIFIC: NEXT GENERATION CIRCULAR BIOBASED FLAGSHIP PACKAGING: A CATALYST FOR THE GREEN TRANSITION
Call & Funding Entities: HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023
Deadline for completion: 1 June 2024 – 31 May 2028
TERRIFIC is one of the four flagship projects funded in 2024 by the CBE-JU, the public-private partnership between the European Union and the Bio-Based Industries Consortium (BIC). The ambition of this project is to demonstrate biobased, circular flagship solutions for packaging applications, achieving TRL 8. These solutions aim to fulfil high performance requirements, including improved mechanical and barriers properties, enhanced food safety and longer shelf life, across the entire supply value chain, while improving circularity and resource efficiency.
“SME INVESTMENT PROJECT”
Call & Funding Entities: Project financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and the Junta de Castilla y León, through the Instituto para la Competitividad Empresarial de Castilla y León (ICE), with the aim of achieving a more competitive and intelligent Europe.
File No: 02/18/VA/0182
Deadline for completion: The 27/05/2021 – 31/12/2023
The company CelMat Techonologies S.L has carried out an investment project that has been cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund with the aim of becoming a more competitive business.
The main objective of the project was to increase the capacity of the company’s laboratories by acquiring capital goods consisting of process machinery and measuring and control equipment. Specifically, three new foaming lines have been installed (foaming by bead foaming, foaming for polyurethanes and foaming for crosslinked polyolefins and rubber), and new equipment has been purchased for the control of these lines and/or the physicochemical characterization of the materials obtained with them.
“0 DELEBS PIPE: DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND-INSULATED PIPING BASED ON SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS”.
Call & Funding Entities: Public-Private Collaboration Projects within the Framework of the State Program to Promote Scientific-Technical Research and its Transfer (2021-2023). Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Agencia Estatal de Investigacion, and European Union NextGeneration.
Consortium: CELLMAT TECHNOLOGIES, S.L., UNIVERITY OF VALLADOLID and ABN PIPE SYSTEMS S.L.U.
“DIGICEL 4.0: CONTROL TOOL FOR THE CELLULAR STRUCTURE OF POLYMERIC FOAMS INTEGRATED INTO THE PRODUCTION LINE AND IN A DIGITALIZED ENVIRONMENT”.
Call & Funding Entities: Program to Support Innovative Business Groups (AEI), Ministry of Industry, Trace and Tourism.
Consortium: CENTRO ESPAÑOL DE PLASTICOS, CONSORCIO NACIONAL DE INDUSTRIALES DEL CAUCHO, CELLMAT TECHNOLOGIES, S.L., STANDARD PROFIL SPAIN, S.A. and ANALISIS Y SIMULACION S.L.
“ARDUA: SUSTAINABLE AIR DUCTS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY”.
Call & Funding Entities: Public-Private Collaboration Projects within the Framework of the State Program to Promote Scientific-Technical Research and its Transfer (2021-2023). Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Agencia Estatal de Investigacion, and European Union NextGeneration.
Consortium: CELLMAT TECHNOLOGIES, S.L., UNIVERITY OF VALLADOLID and INDUSTRIAS TECNICAS DE LA ESPUMA S.L.U.
“CENTAURO: RESEARCH IN THE FORMULATION AND PRODUCTION OF ECO-SUSTAINABLE ALVEOLAR POLYMERS FOR THE ELECTRIC CAR”.
Call & Funding Entities: Perte VEC Project, Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.
Consortium: GRUPO COPO, CENTRO TECNOLÓGICO DEL GRUPO COPO, COPO GALICIA, COPO ZARAGOZA, CELLMAT TECHNOLOGIES, S.L., UNIMATE ROBOTICA and TECDESOFT AUTOMATION.
“DESALTHERITAGE: DEVELOPMENT, CHARACTERIZATION, AND EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF NEW MATERIALS FOR THE DESALINATION OF ELEMENTS OF CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL HERITAGE”.
Call & Funding Entities: Projects in strategic lines, in public-private collaboration, State R&D Program Oriented to the Challenges of Society, within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020. European Union (NextGenerationEU) and Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Consortium: UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID, TÉCNICAS PARA LA RESTAURACIÓN Y CONSERVACIÓN, S.A., CELLMAT TECHNOLOGIES, S.L.
“ECLIPSE: RESEARCH INTO NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE RECYCLING AND RECOVERING OF COMPLEX PLASTIC WASTE”
Call & Funding Entities: MISIONES 2021 call, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and the State Program to Catalyze Innovation and Business Leadership of the State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research 2021-2023. ECLIPSE project is funded by the “Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI)” and supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. It is also co-founded by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, in the 2021 call of the Science and Innovation Missions Program, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and the State Program to Catalyze Innovation and Business Leadership of the State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research 2021-2023.
Consortium: The consortium of ECLIPSE is integrated by 8 different companies: TÉCNICAS REUNIDAS, S.A., ACTECO PRODUCTOS Y SERVICIOS, S.L., CELLMAT TECHNOLOGIES, S.L., CENTRO TECNOLÓGICO DE GRUPO COPO, S.L., PICVISA MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS, S.L., REPSOL, S.A., SEAT, S.A., SYNTHESIA TECHNOLOGY EUROPE, S.L.
Summary: This project focuses on the research of novel technological routes for the recycling and revalorization of complex polymeric wastes, which represent a disruptive advance compared to the current state of the art, in terms of separation, recycling, purification and chemical synthesis of building blocks to obtain new high quality recycled polymers, providing an alternative to mechanical recycling. This objective will be reached through research in processes of separation and identification of complex polymeric wastes, mixed technologies of thermal, chemical and biotechnological recycling, processes of isolation and purification of chemical units of high industrial interest, synthesis of chemical specialties, polymeric formulations and eco-design of products. In addition, this technological transversality provided by ECLIPSE in the different recycling processes to be addressed will allow a significant improvement in the sustainable development and in the circular economy of plastics sector through the minimization of the waste generated, the reduction of energy the costs and the reduction of the CO2 emissions.
“BIONANOPOLYS: OPEN INNOVATION TEST BED FOR DEVELOPING SAFE NANO-ENABLED BIO-BASED MATERIALS AND POLYMER BIONANOCOMPOSITES FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL AND NEW ADVANCED APPLICATIONS”
Call & Funding Entities: HORIZON 2020 PROJECT funded by the European Union within the framework of the H2020-EU.2.1.3 programs. and H2020-EU.2.1.2.
“LOW DENSITY NANOCELLULAR POLYMERS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN BUILDINGS. BASIC HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISMS AND LCA”
Call & Funding Entities: R&D PROJECTS IN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE M-ERA.NET NETWORK (CALL 2020). Project financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and the Junta de Castilla y León, through the Institute for Business Competitiveness of Castilla y León (ICE).
Consortium: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan) and Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brasil). CellMat Technologies leads the project
«INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO DE PANELES AISLANTES VIP (“VACUUM INSULATION PANNEL”) DE BAJO COSTE BASADOS EN PERLITAS NANOCELULARES EXPANDIDAS»
Call & Funding Entities: R&D PROJECTS IN SMEs. Project financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and the Junta de Castilla y León, through the Institute for Business Competitiveness of Castilla y León (ICE).
MODAIS – “Development of heat and moisture transference models for constructive elements included integrated insulating elements”
Call & Funding Entities: The MODAIS project was developed in the frame of CLEANTECHBLOCK – “Sustainable Multi-Functional Building Block Basics”
Consortium: Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia), the Centre for Industrial Ecology of University of Coimbra (Portugal) and CellMat Technologies SL (Spain). CLEANTECHBLOCK project received funds from M-ERA.NET 2016 program and it was co-funded by the ADE (Agency for Enterprise Innovation, Funding and Internationalization) and by the Research and Innovation Program Horizon 2020 of the European Union.
“MATPSAP: ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR THE TREATMENT AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF HIGH-PURITY WATER” – MIG-20241145
Call & Funding Entities: MISIONES 2024 CDTI
Deadline for completion: 31 December 2025
The MATPSAP project, part of Mission 4. “Ecosystem Decontamination,” has as its main objective the development of advanced materials based on cellular polymers that can be integrated into systems for the efficient and sustainable production of water, minimizing the progressive depletion of this natural resource and the generation of waste in treatment processes, with the consequent degradation of ecosystems. The consortium is made up of CellMat Technologies (leader), Water2kW, Graphenea, and includes the University of Valladolid and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
“VITAL LH2: RESEARCH INTO CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE EFFICIENT STORAGE OF LH2 IN POLYMER CONTAINERS FOR AIR TRANSPORT” – MIG-20241172
Call & Funding Entities: MISIONES 2024 CDTI
Deadline for completion: 31 December 2025
The VITAL-LH2 project is part of Mission 7: Sustainability and efficiency of air transport. Its main objective is to research technologies, cellular polymer-based materials, modeling, and key processes for the efficient storage of liquid hydrogen (LH2) in tanks for use in air transport, seeking to optimize safety, efficiency, and costs, facilitating the adoption of hydrogen as a fuel in aviation. The consortium is made up of Aciturri (leader), Amtec, Hiperbaric, CellMat, and includes the participation of the University of Valladolid, CTME, AITIIP, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and the University of Girona.
“ECOMAT: DEVELOPMENT OF CELLULAR POLYMERS WITH IMPROVED PROPERTIES FROM SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS AND ADDITIVES.”
Call & Funding Entities: Project co-financed by the Institute for Business Competitiveness of Castilla y León (ICE) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Thematic Objective 1, which seeks to promote technological development, innovation and quality research.
Deadline for completion: 1st October 2024 – 30th September 2027
ECOMAT’s main objective is focused on the development of sustainable lightweight cellular materials for the manufacture of products of interest for key sectors in Castilla y León, such as construction, automotive or packaging, using recycled polymers, biopolymers and innovative additives.