Ecor Campus, part of the R&D Division of Ecor Research based in Castelvetro di Modena, has been accredited by ASTER, a consortium including the Emilia-Romagna Region, universities, the Italian public research agencies CNR (National Research Council), ENEA (Italian National Agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development), and INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics), as well as the regional system of Chambers of Commerce, to be the Region’s Industrial Research Center.
Thanks to this recognition, the facility where it conducts industrial research involving material testing since 2014, has joined the Region’s High Technology Network. This network brings together research laboratories and centers for innovation that operate in major priority areas of the regional production system, including high-tech mechanical engineering. It also testifies to the vocation of Ecor Campus to respond professionally to the needs of clients not belonging to the network and to support businesses and organizations that need external research and innovation support.
Fabrizio Casadei, Laboratory Director and General Manager of Ecor Research, has expressed his satisfaction for the important accolade, which adds significant value to the Research Center in terms of competencies and reliability.
“Ecor Campus aims to become a bridge between knowing how to think and knowing how to do and will bring innovation at an organizational and technological level. This initiative by Ecor Research, with its over 40 years of history, will build the know-how of the company and allow it to become even more competitive in the market”.
The professionals at Ecor Campus are now concentrating on the study of Surface Engineering, a discipline that designs physical and chemical methods that are able to modify the surface and subsurface layers of a body in order to obtain characteristics deemed optimal for a given application.
The activities concern material characterisation, that is to say the study of their behaviour through the use of specific equipment that tests samples in a wide variety of ways. Specifically, mechanical, thermal, chemical and tribological (study of wear and corrosion) tests, as well as fault analysis are carried out. The results of these tests make it possible to determine the suitability of a material for specific uses, its compatibility based on the application and its final performance.
By 2018 it is planned that Ecor Campus will be expanded and moved to a 37,000-sqm facility, it too in Castelvetro di Modena, with ample space for technical and administrative offices, conference rooms and laboratories. This new complex is expected to become an international center of reference in the field of industrial research.
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