ISPA CRITT English

INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH SYNERGY

Basic research and innovation for industry

To promote continuous know-how exchange in all fields including design engineering, manufacturing processing, tests and trials,

To keep up-to-date on technological innovations : business and industrial strategies,

To organise specific research and investigative programmes.

A top level environment

A young and dynamic team listening to industrial preoccupations and latest scientist and technology research,

Partnerships with the Universities of Le Mans, Caen and Paris VI, make it the most important plastics processing scientific and technological network in France.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Our scientific wishes :

Work with manufacturers to turn their new ideas into reality,

Develop new industrial applications.

Our work context :

Creativity ; our key-word,

An important point ; our team,

Research ; our strategy based on experience.

Our skills field :

Materials and Processing,

Surface Treatments,

Interface Study,

Control and data acquisition.

INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

The CRITT-ISPA has been working with more than 250 firms and industrial groups established in France over the last ten years. It comes into play in many industrial sectors such as the automotive, packaging, electronics, household electrical appliance and pharmaceutical industries.

It supplies technical assistance and contributes to the development of the plastics processing industry.

Our preoccupation is to supply innovative technological progress and the latest scientific research to Plastics processing companies in order to :

Innovate manufacturing processes, enhance quality, improve productivity and find ways to cut costs,

Develop new products and functions,

Open new markets.

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL NETWORK

A team with multidisciplinary skills and specialists in plastics processing oriented scientific research :

Materials and Processing Engineering - Rheology and Polymer Processing,

Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry - Organic synthesis,

Macromolecular Materials and Composites,

Bio-materials.

Fields of industrial interest :

Compounding,

Environment and recycling,

Medical plastics,

Polymers with specific properties.

Extensive resources :

Test and characterisation laboratories in mechanics, rheology, chemistry and physics,

Scientific and technical information center,

Plastic processing materials and equipment.

A WIDE FIELDS OF SKILLS

A flexible structure to offer rapid solutions adapted to industrial problems :

Innovation, Diversification, Technology transfer ; materials, processes, new applications, surfaces,…

Studies, Advice, Technical and Economic Experts,

Obtaining funding,

Technological update.

Extensive resources :

Research laboratories developing cutting-edge technologies with state-of-the-art instrumentation and software,

Industrial tests and trials,

Availability of machines, materials and equipment.