RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

R&D is a CTCV lifestyle, a key of its success and a critical factor for the development of a multi-skilled working team. With knowledge management and idea generation as a fundamental basis, CTCV builds up projects from the idea level to business exploration, adding its innovation capabilities, design skills and technical expertise for successful result.

 

Research and Development in New Materials and Products

• Development and optimisation of materials, products and manufacturing processes.
• Development of shaping technologies for ceramic materials, namely injection moulding processes.
• Innovation in high performance and multifunctional ceramic materials
• Characterisation of raw materials and end materials.

 

Materiais:
Nanomaterials, ceramics, metals, cemented carbides, coating, filled polymer and composites

 

Processes:
Compounding of filled plastics, injection moulding (filled plastics and ceramic and metal powders), ceramic processing, sintering

 

Powder Injecção Moulding (PIM): PIM

 

Testing of New Materials

Chemical, mechanical, microstructural analysis, rheology, test sample production

Hydrofilicity and hydrophobicity surface analysis SELFCLEAN

 

Prototype development

Prototype development

Pre-industrial Production

High tech company starting up

CTCV has started up a company based in a technology transfer form lab to market.

TEandM – Tecnologia e Engenharia de Materiais, S.A.

 

• Process equipment

• Laboratory