Private & Public Corporations - EMASST

Leonardo’s Helicopter Division performs research, design, development, production, customer support and marketing of the company’s extensive range of modern helicopters for commercial, public service, and security and defence applications.
Current production covers all the main helicopter weight categories, from the 1.8 tonne single-engine to the 16 tonne three-engine. All the helicopters are dual commercial and military use platforms except some specific military platforms (NH90, Super Lynx 300, AW159 and AW101).
The Division is able to manage the entire helicopter development and production cycle. The plants, concentrated in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland and the United States, are fully integrated and are organised around ‘centres of exellence’ that support the final assembly lines. The final assembly lines are located in Vergiate and Tessera (Italy), in Yeovil (United Kingdom), in Świdnik (Poland) and in Philadelphia (United States).
The Helicopter Division also includes the operations of Polish subsidiary PZL-Świdnik, acquired in 2010.
From 1 January 2016, the Helicopter Division has absorbed the activities of AgustaWestland

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CONTACTS:
domenico.liguori@leonardocompany.com

AIRBUS Group is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. The Group includes Airbus as the leading manufacturer of commercial and also tanker, transport and mission aircraft, Eurocopter as the world's largest helicopter supplier and EADS Astrium, the European leader in space programmes from Ariane to Galileo. Its Defence & Security Division is a provider of comprehensive systems solutions and makes EADS the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium as well as a stakeholder in the missile systems provider MBDA.
Airbus employs over 133,000 people at more than 70 production sites, above all in France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain as well as in the U.S. and Australia. A global network of more than 30 Representative Offices maintains contact with the customers. In 2011, the company generated revenues of € 49.1 billion.
Corresponding to the product range, the company is subdivided into four Divisions: Airbus, Eurocopter, Astrium, Defence & Security.

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CONTACTS:
elmar.bonaccurso@airbus.com

The Association AIMAT (Associazione Italiana d’Ingegneria dei Materiali) recognizes Materials Science and Engineering as its primary cultural area and promotes several activities, such as:

• promotion and coordination of research on the relations between composition, microstructure, properties, on applications of engineering materials and their production processes, as well as on those aspects related to environmental impact, raw materials and energy;
  

• promotion and coordination of teaching activities on materials related disciplines in the Italian Universities, and of the dissemination of materials culture at any professional level;
  

• promotion of the development of higher education in the field of materials and interdisciplinary connected aspects;
  

• promotion of a broader collaboration between scientific research, professional services and industry both at national and international level;
  

• promotion of a wider collaboration with other research areas of industrial associations on specific materials and/or engineering issues of industrial interest, both at national and international level, as well as identification of research priorities and promotion, coordination and collaboration with Ministries and Agencies involved.
  

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CONTACTS:
mariapia.pedeferri@polimi.it

AKZONOBEL AEROSPACE COATINGS is the global leader in the manufacture, development and supply of coatings for the OEM and MRO sectors of the Commercial Airline, General Aviation and the Military Air markets.
We have developed several coatings technologies used in the modern aerospace industry, such as: waterborne coatings, base coat/clear coat systems, high solids/low VOC coatings, peelable coatings, selectively removable systems and special effects coatings as well as being innovators in chrome-free technologies.

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CONTACTS:
hans.polak@akzonobel.com

BIOMATERIALS & ENGINEERING SRL
Development of nanomaterials for nano-photonics application (sensors) for biotechnological, medical, electronic &environmental applications. R&D activities on medical devices.

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CONTACTS:
francesco.veglio@univaq.it
biomaterials@legalmail.it

COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY AT MADRID, DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS PHYSICS

• Research projects concerning:
  

         1) synthesis an characterization of nanoparticles;
         2) chemical sensors based on sol-gel materials;
         3) protective coatings for metal and alloys;
         4) application of new techniques to the study of degradation processes               in culturale heritage materials.

• Teaching in the graduate programs: Materials Science Engineering and Physics.
  

• Participation in contracts with small and medium enterprises (research, development and innovation)
  

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CONTACTS:
n.carmona@fis.ucm.es

FCA, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is the seventh worldwide car maker, and it designs, builts and sells cars of brands like Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati, Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge and others, as well as industrial and agricultural vehicles. The research of the group is carried on by CRF (Centro Ricerche Fia) and it operates among the powertrain tecnologies, innovative research for cars as nano-technologies, new materials, electric and many others fields related to the vehicles manufacturing.

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CONTACTS:
alessandro.galderisi@fiat.com

Main research activities are focused on thermodynamics of polymers and polymer mixtures, mass transport properties of low molecular weight compounds in polymers, interfacial properties of polymer solutions. Technological applications of interest are durability of advanced polymer systems, separation membranes, polymer foaming, barrier properties, polymer nanocomposites.

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CONTACTS:
mensitie@unina.it

The Fraunhofer IOF conducts application-oriented research in the field of optical systems engineering on behalf of its clients in industry and within publicly-funded collaaborative projects.
The field of optical system engineering enables the step from specific optical, mechanical and electronic components to optical, opto-mechanical and opto-electronic modules and systems with complex functionalities. The objective is to control light, from its generation to its application. In this context, the sustainable energy-efficient use of light - "Green Photonics" - plays a special role for the Fraunhofer IOF, particularly with regard to the Fraunhofer innovation cluster.

Clients of Fraunhofer IOF come from the information and communications, lightining, transport, production, life sciences, food, medical technology, environmental an safety engineering markets.

The Fraunhofer IOF provides the entire process chain, starting from system design to manufacture of prototype optical, opto-mechanical and opto-electronic systems.

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CONTACTS:
Andreas.Tuennermann@iof.fraunhofer.de

Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials (IPCB) belongs to the Department of Chemical Sciences and Materials Technology of National Research Council in Italy (DSCTM-CNR). The general goals of the Institute are the development of research activities , the transfer technology and the professional training in the filed of innovative polymer based materials. The research activities are grouped into three main research fields:
1) Polymers, composites and nanocomposites with tailored functional properties: development, through the "chemical manufacturing", of innovative functionalities in molecular, macromolecular and solid systems with a different level of structural organization, characterization and methodology analysis related to the chemical modifications (bulk and surface);
2) Bio-materials and tissue engineering: development of biomaterials for tissue engineerign and study of the properties of living tissues;
3) Technologies for polymeric, composites and nanostructured materials: production processing, design and modelling with the aim to develop multi-functional sctructures for specific applications.
The main working sites are located in the Napoletan area (south Italy)
and are provided with laboratories in which new-generation scientific instruments in the filed of preparation and characterization of composites and nanocomposite materials are present.
At National and international level, IPCB works on several research activities in cooperation with Italian and foreign universities, research centres and companies. This leads the IPCB to be involved as participant and as principal investigator into European projects as well as into several national and international research projects in the field of biomedical, packaging, electronic, transport and building materials. The institute has a worldwide recognized level for papers on national and international journals, patents and spin-off companies which diffuse and transfer the technological know-out and produce and commercialize new technologies and materials. The IPCB is also involved in the research cooperation with the State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering of the Sichuan University and is the main partner of a joint Research center named Multifunctional Polymers and Biomaterials research center established between the DSCTM-CNR and the Sichuan University.

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CONTACTS:
segreteria@ictp.cnr.it

The Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics (ISTEC) belongs to the National Research Council (CNR) and it is located in Faenza (Italy). Concerning the R&D on surfaces, the activities can be grouped into the following areas of interest: Energy, Aeronautical and Chemical.
Concerning the Aeronautical field, surfaces with a controlled wettability, from superhydrophobic to oleophobic or switching from hydrophilicity to hydrophobicity, are produced as self-cleaning and anti-icing. Nanostructured thin films are obtained by a sol-gel method followed by a thermal treatment. The process provides nanostructured hybrid coatings and allows treating several kinds of materials (glass, metal, ceramic). Excellent de-wetting phenomena are ensured by coupling dynamic and static super-hydrophobicity on the same surface, reaching static contact angles as high as 179°. Activities are ongoing for the realization of antifouling, low friction surfaces for the naval field.
In the Energy sector ISTEC is involved in the production of thin and thick films for the production of energy (third generation photovoltaic cells, fuel cells) and energy harvesting (thermoelectric) via economic and easily scalable techniques (screen printing, ink jet, dip and spin coating, wet spray). Some activities are moreover devoted to the production of films able to reduce the energy consumption of mechanical parts (wear resistant and antifriction). Furthermore ceramic coatings by electrophoretic deposition (EPD) from colloidal suspensions are currently under study on steel or other surfaces, both as fundamental aspects and applications in the fields of oxidic coatings and piezoelectric film structures. Electrical transient analysis provides real-time information on both film growth and charge-to-deposited mass correlations.
About the Chemical area, multifunctional textile substrates produced by ISTEC provides solutions for clean technology sector with a wide spectrum of application, ranging from water/air filtration to self-cleaning and antibacterial fabrics, exploiting the acquired experience on colloids and nanoparticles synthesis. Particularly, the sol gel method is used to induce the direct ceramization of textile with several materials. TiO2 nanoparticles provide active photocatalytic fabrics, hybrid oxide nanosols allow the development of flame resistance and also the tuning of wettability from hydrophobic to hydrophilic behavior and finally Ag nanoparticles produce antibacteric substrates.

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CONTACTS:
magda.blosi@istec.cnr.it

SAFRAN is an international high-technology group, a leading supplier in the field of Aeronautics and space (propulsion and equipment), Defence and Security. SAFRAN's activities cover the entire life cycle of engines for aircraft and helicopters, civil and military (design, production, testing, marketing, maintenance).

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CONTACTS:
emilie.goncalves@safran.fr

My main activity concern about the use and maintenance of a dual-beam platform for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication, equipped with EDX microanalysis, Focused Ion Beam, Electron Beam Lithography and Nanomanipulators, and located at the Sapienza Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Laboratories (SNN-Lab).
Besides, we are studying the synthesis and the characterization of Titania nanotubes obtained by electrochemical anodization and their application to the Hydrogen generation by Solar Water Splitting and Lithium Battery.

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CONTACTS:
francesco.mura@uniroma1.it

SASLab is a laboratory of the University La Sapienza of Rome legally administrated by Astronautic Electric and EnergeticDepartment (DIAEE).

SASLab main activities are:

• Design & Development of Technologies and Processes for innovative Space Materials (Materials for thermal protection systems (Carbon/Carbon Laminate and Sandwich), CVD (Chemical Vapour Deposition), Technique for Nanotubes and Coatings, Photopolymerization of Composite materials in Simulated Space Environment, RTM Technology for 3D Composites and Iso/Anisogrid Structures).
  

• Design & Development of Space Structures (Inflatable Structures, Re-entry TPS Systems, Antennas, Waveguides and Impact Protection Structures, Booms and Tribological mechanisms, Moon Descending Modules, Micro-Satellites).
  

• On Ground Simulation of Spacecraft-Environment Interactions (Vacuum and Thermal Cycling Effects, Atomic Oxygen and UV Effects, Outgassing Effects)
  

• Mechanical Characterization of Advanced Materials (Tensile, Compression, Shear, Burst/Puncture, Fatigue)
  

The use of SASlab testing equipment by industry fosters an excellent know-how  exchange and technology transfer between the institute and companies working in the aerospace field.
SASLab collaborates with several aeronautical and aerospace international industries (Alenia Aermacchi, Astrium, Thales Alenia Space, Avio, AgustaWestland, AleniaAermacchi, MBDA, Selex Sistemi Integrati, NTT Group, Trelleborg, GalileoAvionica, Centro Sviluppo Materiali) and national and international scientific agencies (ASI, CIRA, ENEA, ESA, INFN, SegreDifesa).

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CONTACTS:
mario.marchetti@uniroma1.it

SURFACTIS Technologies is a leading provider of nanocoatings for surface modification.
The company develops, manufactures and commercializes innovative nanocoatings to modify a broad variety of surfaces.
Hydrophobic organic coatings to drastically reduce surface energy of materials (avoid oil creeping) and also to graft textured materials to make them superhydrophobic.
Superhydrophobic treatments applicable on many surfaces, including transparent and thermosensible materials. The coated surface is superhydrophobic with water contact angle superior to 150°C.
Surfactis Technologies offers superhydrophobic coatings to many industries (aeronautic, optic, optronic) for its anti-icing, anti dust, easy to clean and liquid repellent properties.

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CONTACTS:
david.portet@surfactis.com

TECNICHAL SERVICE s.r.l. is an industry which works on Mechanical and Aeronautical fields for more than 30 years.
It works in particular on:

• Spray deposition of polymeric coatings on metallic, polymeric and composite materials substrates.
  

• Manufacturing of plastic components and composite materials reinforced with glass, carbon or aramid fibers.
  

• Anti-reflex surface treatment for military camouflage.
  

• Repair and maintenance of civil and military vehicles.
  

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CONTACTS:
info@tecnichalservice.it
direzione@tecnichalservice.it

The sphere of WTL Ltd' s business activity is development (along with invention and research) and sales of complex chemical reagents for water treatment, such as corrosion and scale and bio inhibitors, and
chemical reagents for water purification, such as coagulants and flocculants. The Company uses different initial pure chemicals for blending and combining complex chemical reagents for different purposes in water treatment technologies. All developed reagents (chemical compounds) are product of scientific research and technological developments, as the WTL Ltd is strongly focused on scientific research and has for it the solid scientific base.
The other branch of Company's activity is full range of activities and services for implementation of these technical and chemical solutions to the particular Customer's enterprise (industry fields) with its requirements and source data (such as water quality, its quantity etc.)

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CONTACTS:
nell_romanova@mail.ru