Fatronik is a private technology centre, providing research and development services to the industry. Since 1989, Fatronik is improving existing products and devising new solutions for its customers, most of them SMEs. During the last 14 years, Fatronik has been improving existing products and devising new solutions for its shareholders (all SMEs) as well as creating new designs with innovative final results that complies with market demand. The scope of Fatronik main activities is the development of advanced mechatronic solutions addressing different industrial sectors including Capital Goods and Assitive Technology.

TEKNIKER is a private non-profit research centre, born in 1981 from a previous laboratory working in metals characterisation since the sixties. From that point onwards TEKNIKER grew adapting its offer to the changing demand coming from its industrial surroundings, mainly devoted to metalmechanical transformation and composed of small or very small companies. Over its twenty years of close collaboration with its surrounding industry, TEKNIKER has not only gained a lot of experience but has a strong influence in these sectors. The research centre has great potential for the dissemination of results to manufacturing industry in the area. TEKNIKER’s fields of actuation include: Product development and precision engineering (mechanical elements design, machines and equipment design and development, control systems, metrology and ultraprecision), Manufacturing systems (product and process design, manufacturing organisation, manufacturing systems) and Production processes (cutting technologies, forming technologies, surface technologies). A recent strategic decision has led TEKNIKER to move also towards being a centre for micro-manufacturing and precision engineering.