On November 21st, ACCIONA, supported by PNO Innovation, will host the workshop titled “Sustainability and Durability Challenges in Offshore Infrastructures”. The event organised on behalf of the MAREWIND project, will feature leading international professionals from the offshore energy sector, who will share their insights and future perspectives for the industry. Additionally, experts in new materials will…

The MAREWIND consortium reviewed the work done and achievements reached until M36 (November 2023) on all the work packages. During the last months Koshkil, Lurederra and Tecnan have been working on the repair and maintenance activities. As a result, they have identified novel implementation strategies that have been successfully implemented on larger samples. For more than 8 months,  the treated sample…

Almost reaching month 40 of the NANOSTACKS project, a follow-up meeting was organised on 04-05th October in TECNAN facilities. Project partners highlighted the new results obtained, but also partners carried out a review of the previous years of the project to have a better view for the definition of the activities for the final stage…

The SAFE-N-MEDTECH project comes to an end after 4 years of work. The main objective of the project has been to build an innovative open access platform to offer companies and reference laboratories the capabilities, knowledge, networks, and services necessary for the development, evaluation, up-scaling and exploitation of the market for medical and diagnostic devices…

After the first year of execution of the European project SUSAAN, an online meeting of the 13 consortium partners took place on 25th May to update and share the progress made to date. In this sense, the partners discussed the first evaluation results of the antimicrobial effect of the developed active nanomaterials. SUSAAN, a project…

The European project MAREWIND “MAterials solutions for cost Reduction and Extended service life on WIND off-shore installations” is advancing in its execution and validation tests have already begun in real environments with the prototypes of new materials, as stated in the consortium meeting corresponding to month 30 that was hold online on 10th May. The…

The facilities of the DEMOKRITOS National Center for Scientific Research, in Athens, hosted the final consortium meeting of the ZEOCAT-3D project, last March 16th. All the entities participating in the project were present at the meeting. After 4 years of research and co-working between different European partners, the development of a hydrocarbon catalytic conversion system…

The European project NANOSTACK is evolving properly in terms of evaluation of nanomaterials for their possible use in advanced devices, as revealed in the 28-month follow-up meeting that was held on December 12th by teleconference and where the partners presented the results obtained in the last 6 months of work. More concretely, partners have discussed…

On November 16 and 17, on the occasion of the 24-month course of the project, the MAREWIND consortium held a general meeting to share the results and progress obtained in recent months. In this case, the partners were met in person, for the first time in the project, at Lurederra – Tecnan facilities in Los…

Last November, the final meeting of the European SUPER-PV project was held in Ouarzazate (Morocco) at the MASEN facilities. In the mentioned project, TECNAN and LUREDERRA have worked on proposing and developing nanotechnological-based solutions to improve performance of solar panels and reduce O&M costs through the use of coatings with antireflective and antisoiling properties. More…

At the beginning of October, the M42 meeting of the ZEOCAT-3D project took place. In it each of the project participants presented the last improvements made in their respective activities. ZEOCAT-3D is nearing the end of its development and therefore most of the work packages have been completed, especially those focused on laboratory scale work.…

On the occasion of the 18 months of course of the MAREWIND project, was held by teleconference, the corresponding follow-up meeting, on the 22nd of June, with the participation of the whole consortium; likewise, on 23rd of June, it took place the first Review Meeting of the project, in which participated both the consortium and…

The European project ZEOCAT-3D reaches its 36th month, holding its second Review Meeting on April 28. In a pleasant online meeting, in which all the members and participants of the project were present, the progress made up to date was presented, as well as the activities planned for the coming months. The purpose of the…

After the first year of the European project MAREWIND, the consortium celebrated a meeting via teleconference the days 23 and 24 of November 2021, with the objective that each partner shared their results and show the progress in their work packages. The progress was updated with respect to the previous consortium general meeting celebrated in…

NANOSTACKS project is receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement 951949. The focus of the project is printing nano-stacks of different materials so that miniaturisation of multiple applications is assessed. It involves 5 European partners from 3 different countries, where the Technological Institute of Karlsruhe (Germany) is…

  On January 13th and 14th, the kick-off meeting of the MAREWIND project was held. This ambitious project funded by the H2020 program of the European Union addresses the main aspects related to the durability and maintenance of offshore structures. Combining different key players in the current wind energy value chain, MAREWIND covers a set…

On October 8, the Month 18 meeting of the European ZEOCAT-3D project was held telematically. In it, all members of the project participated actively presenting the tasks carried out to date, as well as setting out the strategies for the next months. It is worth mentioning that the most relevant developed tasks on this stage…

Tecnan has participated in INNOVIP project, which is focused on the development of innovative VIP (Vacuum Insulation Panels) products, improving their thermal performance over the entire lifetime by at least 25 % and making VIPs adjustable, mountable and machinable. Precisely, one of the most innovative points of this project is the application of different functional…

Due to COVID-19, the M24 follow-up meeting of the SUPER-PV project had to be held by videoconference. Thus, all project partners, including TECNAN, have participated in a very active way in this meeting with the aim to boost the progress of the project. According agreements reached during the meeting and the technical activities planned for…

The ZEOCAT3D European Project has recently completed its first year of development, where TECNAN participates, together with other European companies and research entities, with the goal of developing zeolite-based nano-catalysts, using 3D technology for the direct conversion of methane into aromatic hydrocarbons. Due to the global pandemic situation related to Covid-19, the general meeting of…

Last October, the meeting corresponding to month 30 of the INNOVIP project took place in Warsaw, specifically in the offices of MOSTOSTAL WARSZAWA SA, where in addition to visiting on-site the facilities of the first demonstration of the project, the last details were addressed. In this way, and keeping in mind the completion date established…

The ZEOCAT-3D project, funded by the Horizon 2020 European programme, and under the topic “Catalytic transformation of hydrocarbons” began in April 2019 and involves fifteen European partners from six different countries, where IDENER (Spain), is the coordinator. The great experience that TECNAN owns in the manufacture and production of nanoproducts will make the company the…

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The SAFE-N-MEDTECH initiative just kicked off last week in Bilbao, in a meeting hosted by Osteba, the HTA Unit of the Health Ministry of the Basque Country (Spain) in collaboration with BIOPRAXIS-BIOKERALTY. The project is coordinated by TECNAN (an SME from Navarra, with great experience in Nano products), together with BIOPRAXIS-BIOKERALTY (the research branch of…

Osteoporosis (“porous bone”) is a very common bone disease, it is more frequent after menopause and with aging but it can occur also at younger age. It occurs when the body loses too much bone, as a result bones become weak and brittle – so brittle that a fall or even mild stresses such as…

The DIMAP project has successfully achieved the development of several types of inks, such as ceramic inks, thermal conductive, lightweight or high-strength polymers, and has also achieved the adaptation of the PolyJet technology to use these inks. TECNAN’s work has been focused on the development and manufacture of ceramic nanoparticles that have allowed the development…

The INNOVIP project will reinvent the vacuum insulation panels (VIP) by improving their thermal performance by at least 25% over their entire useful life and making them also adjustable, mountable and machinable. One of the most innovative points of this project is the union of different coating panels with different functionalities that can be adjusted…

Within the framework of the European INFINITY project, Tecnan has been the partner in charge of supplying the other partners with the different indium-free oxides produced by the flame spray pyrolysis technology in order to develop the transparent coatings suitable for plastic and vitreous substrates. In this way, several batches of zinc oxide doped with…

Tecnan participará como ponente en la 5ª edición del Curso sobre “Reparación y rehabilitación en edificación”, organizado por el Instituto de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales de la Fundación Cicop y que se impartirá durante 9 jornadas en el mes de abril en la Facultad de Ciencias de Granada. En concreto, el representante comercial…