The RESINSURF project has held its final event within Advanced Manufacturing Madrid, with a technical conference focused on the competitiveness, sustainability and regulatory compliance of surface treatments. The event brought together companies, sector professionals and consortium members to share the project’s main results and discuss the technological and regulatory challenges facing the sector.
Technical conference at Advanced Manufacturing Madrid
Under the title “Surfaces that comply today and compete tomorrow: competitive surface treatments in a demanding regulatory environment”, the conference was organised by AIAS – Spanish Association of Surface Finishing Industries with the support of CIDETEC Surface Engineering, with RESINSURF as its backdrop.
The session presented the advances and success stories generated during the project, as well as analysing how surface treatments are increasingly able to respond to an increasingly demanding regulatory framework without losing competitiveness. The conference featured the participation of renowned companies in the sector, including ABB Robotics, Tecnocrom and Gaches Chimie.
Voices of the project
Jaime Ochoa (CIDETEC Surface Engineering) presented the project and the Interreg Sudoe Programme, as well as the project’s objectives, cross-cutting activities and policy brief.
Raúl Paez (TITANIA), Emile Decompte (Chrome Dur Industriel) and Georgina Faura Muñoz (CIDETEC Surface Engineering) presented the main results and success stories achieved during the project. Their presentations included the results obtained in the two pilots and in the digital monitoring of formulations, highlighting the value of collaboration between technology centres, companies, academia and sector organisations in translating research into applicable industrial solutions.
The conference was opened and moderated by Dr. José Antonio Díez Silanes, President of AIAS, who also chaired the round table on the future of surface treatments. Participants included ABB, Tecnocrom, RESINSURF partners TITANIA and CIDETEC Surface Engineering, and project associates University of Cádiz and Chemplate.
Jose Antonio Díez (AIAS y Cidetec Surface Engineering), Jaime Ochoa (Cidetec Surface Engineering, Raúl Paez (Titania).
Emile Decompte (Chrome Dur Industriel), Georgina Faura (Cidetec Surface Engineering), Leandro González (Universidad de Cádiz), Andreu Ruiz (Chemplate).
Stand and networking
RESINSURF shared a space with AIAS, featuring a dedicated area with images of the pilots, demonstrators —coated parts from the Chrome Dur Industriel and TITANIA pilots—, project catalogues and the policy brief. The space also served as a meeting point to exchange information with companies and professionals interested in learning more about the project.
Mingling/networking
Final consortium meeting
In parallel with the public event, the RESINSURF consortium held its final in-person meeting, with the participation of all project partners. During the meeting, the activities carried out were reviewed, the administrative and bureaucratic aspects required for project closure were addressed, and the next steps were defined to continue improving and transferring the solutions developed.
The consortium took advantage of this meeting to assess the joint work carried out and to consolidate the foundations needed to ensure that RESINSURF’s results continue to be applied beyond the end of the project.
We are not finished yet
Two videos —a teaser and a mini-report— will soon be published to showcase the final event and the RESINSURF project as a whole. In addition, the Portuguese partners will organise a workshop in Aveiro this November, including an open-door session at Smallmatek. Before the end of the year, an open-door session is also planned at Chrome Dur Industriel.
A project with a future
RESINSURF, led by CIDETEC and funded under the Interreg Sudoe programme, has contributed to promoting more sustainable, competitive and intelligent surface treatments. The project works on developing alternatives to hexavalent chromium, particularly in the hard chrome plating process, with applications in strategic sectors such as aerospace and automotive.
The project coordinators, CIDETEC Surface Engineering, would like to thank the consortium partners for their commitment throughout the initiative and Interreg Sudoe for the trust placed in the RESINSURF project.