- Compromised with the casting industry and with its entire value chain, AZTERLAN provides basic and applied research capabilities, as well as technology transfer to foundry companies in the following areas of knowledge:
- Development of new metallic materials.
- Optimization of the manufacturing processes: Metallurgy conditioning, feeding and filling systems, process control and optimization, hybridization with other manufacturing technologies.
- Artificial Intelligence and Industry 4.0 Solutions: Smart data exploitation, digital twins, predictive control systems.
- Ensuring the quality of components.
- Environmental solutions: Waste, emissions, energy, eco-design.
- Other related areas: corrosion, surface technologies, improvement of mechanical properties.
- Development of experimental prototypes: Advanced design concepts, new materials.
- Likewise, AZTERLAN provides Advanced Technological Services oriented to the metal-mechanical industry, with a wide spectrum of capabilities:
- Defect and failure analysis and diagnosis.
- Advanced Technological Services: Advanced characterization of materials (mechanical properties testing, metallographic analysis, chemical testing, corrosion testing, non-destructive testing, cryogenic treatment of materials, etc.) and certification and approval testing.
- Software and hardware for advanced manufacturing of metallic components:
- Sentinel®: Real time monitoring of manufacturing process by means of Artificial Intelligence.
- Salomon®: Multi-variable analysis for manufacturing processes.
- PDManager®: Digitalization, correlation, traceability and storage of the relevant manufacturing process data.
- Digital passport: Registration and access to unitary parts manufacturing data.
- Software and hardware for iron foundry:
- Kasandra®: Real time simulation of contraction and shrinkage defects in iron foundry.
- Thermolan®: Thermal Analysis to control the metallurgical quality.
- Foundry Recipes Optmizer: AI assisted “metallic charge recipes” configurator.
- DymetriCS®: Portable system to control of dynamic mismatch for vertical casting.
- HawkEye: Software for the characterization and evaluation of nodular cast iron micrographs.
- SDS Smart Dosing System for the dosification of FeSiMg (for both wire and tundish cover systems).
- Ingelligent system for watering dosing for return sand conditioning.
- Software and hardware for aluminum foundry:
- Alu-Q®: Equipment to control the metallurgical quality of aluminum alloys.
- Alu-V®: Vacuum system to extract gases from injected aluminum molds.
- Other solutions:
- SmartCasting®: 360° solution to manufacture castings that require no extra finishing operations.
- Metallurgical compensative product: Late graphitization booster for ductile cast iron manufacturing to avoid shrinkage defects and microporostiy.
- AZTERLAN is a Technology Centre specialized in metallurgy. Its main mission focuses on research and knowledge transfer in the field of metallic materials and their processing technologies. Among these technologies foundry occupies a prominent place..
- With the aim of improving the competitiveness of companies in the sector and with a “zero defects” orientation, AZTERLAN collaborates with foundries in the development and integration of new technologies to improve the performance and efficiency of their processes, ensuring the quality of their products and promoting the development of higher value-added components that respond to the growing design and quality demands of its client sectors.
- AZTERLAN´s R&D capabilities are complemented by technological services for advanced testing and characterization, as well as in-service failure analysis and diagnosis services. The Center owns first-class facilities and equipment that, together with the knowledge and experience of its technical and research team, are at the service of its industrial clients.
- AZTERLAN collaborates with leading national and international organizations and belongs to the Basque Research and Technology Alliance, which brings together 17 scientific and technological agents from the Basque Country and encompasses more than 3,000 researchers.
- UNE-EN ISO 56001. Innovation Management System.
- ENAC Accreditation No. 59/LE069.
- NADCAP Accreditation (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program).
- Accredited as a Technology Center by Basque Government (RVCTI).
- Recognized as a Technological Centre by the Spanish Government..
- Accredited by French Government to perform R&D activities with companies.
- Homologations of private clients.
- Casting and steel industry
- Automotive
- Wind energy
- Oil & gas
- Air & Space
- Machine tool
- Railway
- Energy
- Maritime
- Pumps and valves
- Civil engineering