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19/06/2014
ALBA synchrotron welcomes the one thousandth researcher
ALBA synchrotron welcomes the one thousandth researcher
Coinciding with its first two years of operation, ALBA synchrotron recently welcomed its one thousandth researcher, Manuel Vásquez from the CSIC Material Sciences Institute in Madrid.
In late May, this researcher got access to one of the synchrotron beam lines he used with his colleagues during five days in order to investigate the magnetic properties of special nanowires that could be used for instance to improve the computers recording systems.
The reason why Manuel Vásquez could use ALBA is that his project had been previously selected by an expert panel that allocates beam line slots to the best scientific project received. To date, 267 projects have been selected and regarding the forthcoming call for the next first half of 2015, researchers from all over the world can apply until next July 7. We face a very selective process: with the last call, only one out of three applications received (250) was approved.
In the future, the access should be easier: according to director, Ms. Caterina Biscari, ALBA plants to duplicate the number of beam lines available (from 7 to 14) by 2020. Two of these new lines are already under construction.
Discover the new ALBA synchrotron web page
In late May, this researcher got access to one of the synchrotron beam lines he used with his colleagues during five days in order to investigate the magnetic properties of special nanowires that could be used for instance to improve the computers recording systems.
The reason why Manuel Vásquez could use ALBA is that his project had been previously selected by an expert panel that allocates beam line slots to the best scientific project received. To date, 267 projects have been selected and regarding the forthcoming call for the next first half of 2015, researchers from all over the world can apply until next July 7. We face a very selective process: with the last call, only one out of three applications received (250) was approved.
In the future, the access should be easier: according to director, Ms. Caterina Biscari, ALBA plants to duplicate the number of beam lines available (from 7 to 14) by 2020. Two of these new lines are already under construction.
Discover the new ALBA synchrotron web page
12/06/2014
€ 1.365 billion of foreign investment in the Catalan industry in 2013
€ 1.365 billion of foreign investment in the Catalan industry in 2013
In a study published on last May 22, the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce presented the figures of the foreign investments made last year in Catalonia in the industrial sector.
The €1.365 billion invested, which means 52% of the total investment in Spain exhibits a 12.9% increase compared to 2012 and is the largest volume since 2005.
In addition to these positive data, it can be mentioned that these investments represent 39% of the global amount of the foreign investments made, a relatively high level that confirms the importance of the industrial sector in the Catalan economy.
It is worth stressing two sectors with a two-digit interannual growing rate: pharmaceutical manufacturing (+16.9%, €721.8 million) and telecommunications (+14.1%, €379.4 million), which together represent 81% of the total investment. These two sectors belong to the five priorities sectors the Barcelona Synchrotron Park has along with the sectors of Materials and Energy, Food and Beverage and Aerospace.
On the basis of these and other encouraging results, the Chamber of Commerce improves the 2015 GDP growth forecasts from 0.4 to 1.2 percent.
Press release
The €1.365 billion invested, which means 52% of the total investment in Spain exhibits a 12.9% increase compared to 2012 and is the largest volume since 2005.
In addition to these positive data, it can be mentioned that these investments represent 39% of the global amount of the foreign investments made, a relatively high level that confirms the importance of the industrial sector in the Catalan economy.
It is worth stressing two sectors with a two-digit interannual growing rate: pharmaceutical manufacturing (+16.9%, €721.8 million) and telecommunications (+14.1%, €379.4 million), which together represent 81% of the total investment. These two sectors belong to the five priorities sectors the Barcelona Synchrotron Park has along with the sectors of Materials and Energy, Food and Beverage and Aerospace.
On the basis of these and other encouraging results, the Chamber of Commerce improves the 2015 GDP growth forecasts from 0.4 to 1.2 percent.
Press release
03/06/2014
Barcelona Synchroton Park booth at the BioKorea 2014 exhibition in Seoul
Barcelona Synchroton Park booth at the BioKorea 2014 exhibition in Seoul
Barcelona Synchrotron Park (BSP) attended the BioKorea2014 exhibition hold in Seoul, on last May 28-30. This event gathers every year the main healthcare companies from Korea and other countries from the region: pharmaceutical, medical devices, cosmetics etc.
Thanks to Pharmaphenix, the healthcare consulting company operating both in Barcelona and in the Korean capital, BSP had the opportunity to introduce its privileged location for settling in Europe to Korean companies that include more and more the Old Continent in their development strategies.
As a result of this participation, BSP and Pharmaphenix already started to work on the project of bringing a delegation of Korean companies to Barcelona, taking advantage of the BioSpain2014 exhibition organized in Santiago de Compostela on next September 24-26 by Asebio, the Spanish association of biotech companies. Thanks to the partnership between Asebio and Pharmaphenix, Korea could be the invited country.
27/05/2014
The new Barcelona Synchrotron Park bus shuttle completes its first six months
The new Barcelona Synchrotron Park bus shuttle completes its first six months
Coinciding with the arrival of multinational SENER company in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park (BSP), which inaugurated officially its new corporate headquarters in the park two weeks ago, the BSP opened a new bus line in last October in order to improve its accessibility.
More specifically, it is a bus shuttle that connects the FGC railway station of Bellaterra to the Rodalies railway station of Cerdanyola-Universitat, running through the BSP.
With a frequency adapted to companies working hours, this new connection notably improves the access to BSP.
This shuttle operates only on working days and belongs to the integrated ticket system of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area: it doesn’t represent any extra cost for someone arriving by public transportation.
Bus Estació FGC Bellaterra UAB – Parc de l’Alba (Cerdanyola del Vallès): timetable
More specifically, it is a bus shuttle that connects the FGC railway station of Bellaterra to the Rodalies railway station of Cerdanyola-Universitat, running through the BSP.
With a frequency adapted to companies working hours, this new connection notably improves the access to BSP.
This shuttle operates only on working days and belongs to the integrated ticket system of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area: it doesn’t represent any extra cost for someone arriving by public transportation.
Bus Estació FGC Bellaterra UAB – Parc de l’Alba (Cerdanyola del Vallès): timetable
21/05/2014
SENER opens in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park its new corporate headquarters in Catalonia
SENER opens in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park its new corporate headquarters in Catalonia
SENER, the international engineering and technology group, recently opened its new corporate building in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park, that is to house its headquarters in Catalonia.
SENER has a workforce of about 5,500 professionals working in subsidiaries in Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States. The operating income of the group amounts to 1,200 million Euros (2013 figures).
During its 20 years of operations, SENER in Catalonia has become a center of excellence in the fields of aeronautics, railway systems, hydraulic technologies, acoustics, port and coastal engineering, civil structures, advanced manufacturing and testing systems, instruments and electronics for science and space experimentation, high precision mechatronics for astronomy and major science facilities, and healthcare technology.
This new headquarters will therefore house the almost 300 employees, including engineers, architects, mathematicians, physicists and medical doctors, that make up its multidisciplinary team. The building has also been designed to accommodate future extensions and to have the capacity to increase its people, innovations and projects.
The new headquarters are located on a 7,500 sqm site, with 16,000 sqm of floor space and an additional 4,000 sqm space for future expansion. It has technical offices, two clean rooms, one of them a high-performance clean room (class 10,000), an electronics lab with SMD (Superficial Mounted Devices) and conventional welding capacity, two hardware integration rooms and precision mechanics workshops that can house large-scale projects. These workshops have recently been the setting of a turnkey project for the assembly of Bombardier’s C-Series plane, as well as the integration of the medical device, AUTOPLAK.
Press release
SENER has a workforce of about 5,500 professionals working in subsidiaries in Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States. The operating income of the group amounts to 1,200 million Euros (2013 figures).
During its 20 years of operations, SENER in Catalonia has become a center of excellence in the fields of aeronautics, railway systems, hydraulic technologies, acoustics, port and coastal engineering, civil structures, advanced manufacturing and testing systems, instruments and electronics for science and space experimentation, high precision mechatronics for astronomy and major science facilities, and healthcare technology.
This new headquarters will therefore house the almost 300 employees, including engineers, architects, mathematicians, physicists and medical doctors, that make up its multidisciplinary team. The building has also been designed to accommodate future extensions and to have the capacity to increase its people, innovations and projects.
The new headquarters are located on a 7,500 sqm site, with 16,000 sqm of floor space and an additional 4,000 sqm space for future expansion. It has technical offices, two clean rooms, one of them a high-performance clean room (class 10,000), an electronics lab with SMD (Superficial Mounted Devices) and conventional welding capacity, two hardware integration rooms and precision mechanics workshops that can house large-scale projects. These workshops have recently been the setting of a turnkey project for the assembly of Bombardier’s C-Series plane, as well as the integration of the medical device, AUTOPLAK.
Press release
15/05/2014
MATGAS, Air Products' leading R&D centre worldwide
MATGAS, Air Products' leading R&D centre worldwide
The multinational American company Air Products will raise the level of MATGAS, the company's research and development laboratory located on the UAB campus via its Spanish subsidiary Carburo Metálicos, to include the direction of research projects globally and turn it into a reference centre. This laboratory will be the sixth of its type that the company sets up in the world.
To boost the centre's activities, the company plans on investing an average of five million Euros per year. MATGAS will lead the global research into the application of gasses in the agro-food sector, the treatment of waters and the study of the full CO2 cycle, from capture to treatment and new uses.
MATGAS employs 35 researchers and has already contracted five new people this year. MATGAS was created in 2001 as the result of the strategic alliance between Air Products, Carburos Metálicos, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the UAB the Barcelona Synchrotron Park collaborates with.
MATGAS
To boost the centre's activities, the company plans on investing an average of five million Euros per year. MATGAS will lead the global research into the application of gasses in the agro-food sector, the treatment of waters and the study of the full CO2 cycle, from capture to treatment and new uses.
MATGAS employs 35 researchers and has already contracted five new people this year. MATGAS was created in 2001 as the result of the strategic alliance between Air Products, Carburos Metálicos, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the UAB the Barcelona Synchrotron Park collaborates with.
MATGAS
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