FEDERAIMEN facilities are unique and innovative, with cutting-edge equipment. We aim to cover our partners and clients necessities in the fields of materials and processes.
- 2 centres
- 9.000 m2 of technological and scientific infraestructure
- Cutting-edge equipment
Headquarters.
Laser Applications Centre
Located in the industrial area of Cataboi, en O Porriño, it covers an area of 4.000 m2 on a plot of 11.100 m2.
Torneiros Centre
“Armando Priegue” Building
With 5,000 m2, the building Armando Priegue is located on a plot of 7,500 m2 in Torneiros, O Porriño.
Equipment
Joining Technologies
- MIG/MAG/TIG/PAW/SAW Arc-welding equipment
- MIG/MAG Fronius Twin Arc TPS 7200
- CMT y CMT Advanced Fronius
- Resistance welding FRONIUS multi-welding systems mounted on a track of 4 metres and with capacity for setting work piece positions up to 1.500 kg.
- Friction Stir Welding & Processing
- Brazing & Soldering: Furnaces, Induction, Flame
- Mechanical Joints
- Adhesive Joints
- Plastic cutting and welding equipment
Laser Technologies
Laser Macro-processing
- ROFIN DC035 CO2 source 3,5 kW
- LASERLINE LDL 160 Direct Diode laser source: 3,3 kW
- LASERLINE Direct Diode laser source: 6kW
- TRUMPF TruDisk Disc laser system 16 kW
Laser Micro-processing
- SPECTRA PHYSICS Pulsed Nd source: YAG PRO-290-30
- TRUMPF TRUFIBER fibre source 400W of monomode (with galvanometer head, optical fixed and cutting nozzle)
- ROFIN fibre source 1,5kW of monomode (with galvanometer head and optical fixed)
- Pulses sources: Nd YVO4
- 3D MICROFAB Laser Micro machining system
- TRUMPF TruMark 6350 ultraviolete laser with processing cabine
- EOLITE HEGOA IR40/G20/UV10 – 30ps Picosecond laser
- AMPLITUDE SATSUMA HP2 (IR, GREEN and UV) fiber laser 400fs to 10 ps
- MOPA 266-50 Crylas Laser. Pulsed laser with emitting 266 nm, pulse duration shorter than 950 ps
Handling: CNC gantries, robots and servo-controlled tables
Materials
- Haake PolyLab QC System, extruding and mixing equipment with Rheomex CTW100 QC twin-screw extruder
- RTM light Ciject Zero injection machine with mould heatable
- Fontijne LabPro 1000 presses to composites (closing force 1.000 kn, Temperature max. 400ºC and mould 600x600 mm)
- Plasma treatment equipment
- ENGEL, Victory 40 injector equipment
- Clemco Pulsar III Pressure Blast Cabinet
Automation and Robotics
- FBG Sensors Interrogator: Fibersensing y Smartfiber
- Yenista OSICS T100 1550 Tunable laser over C band
- IR Camera (SWIR, MWIR):
- XENICS Gobi-640-GigE: uncooled thermal vision camera, spectral band: 8-14 µm, 640x480 px, 50Hz
- FLIR SC7600-MB: InSb infrared system. 640x512 px, pitch: 15 µm, frame rate: 1-100Hz (Full frame), window: 3400Hz (48x4), spectral band: 1,5-5,1 µm
- Raptor SWIR OWL 640 Analog: 640x512 px, 15 x15 µm, 0,4-1,7 µm
- ROBOTNIK Mobile Robot Guardian with load capacity 100 Kg and Schunk robotic hand of 6 degrees-of-freedom and load capacity 6 kg
- ABB IRB 4400 anthropomorphic robot 6-axis
Enviromental
- IR-FT JASCO 6200 Spectrometer
- SHIMADZU 5050 TOC Analyser with a module to solid samples
- WTW OXITOP 1230T-6 Meters for the determination of BOD 05
- TECATOR 2006 DIGESTOR Kjeldahl digestion system with distillation unit
- CI MEHTROHM 882 Compact Ion Chromatograph with autosampler
- 7890A AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES Gas chromatograph with FID and ECD detectors
Laboratory
Mechanical Testing
- Universal testing machines, up to 1000kN
- Resonance testing machines for fatigue testing
Microstructural Characterisation
- HITACHI S-4800 II field emission scanning electron microscope with EDS and EBSD microanalysis systems
- JEOL JSM 6400 scanning electron microscope with EDS microanalysis systems
Physico-chemical testing
- VARIAN VISTA-MPX simultaneous ICP plasma spectrometer
- BRUKER S4 Pioneer X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometer
- PROTO iXRD portable residual stress measurement equipment using X-Ray diffraction
- DEKTAK 8CSM profilometer
- saline fog and humidity equipments
Non-destructive Testing (Radiographic-Ultrasonic equipment)
- X-CUBE Compact Radioscopy Cabin from GE Inspection Technologies with 160 kV X-ray source
- Computerised Axial Tomography System (patent no. ES 2341833 B2)
- Gamma Radiography and X-Ray equipment
- PERKIN ELMER XRD 1622 A014 Digital X-Ray Flat Panel Detector
- DÜRR HD-CR 35 NDT Computer Radiography System
- ISONIC digital equipment for UT and TOFD with graphic register
- OLYMPUS OMNISCAN MX equipment for TOFD, PHASED ARRAY and UT
Metrology Dimensional
- Mitutoyo EUROC 122010 Coordinate Measuring Machine 1200 x 2000 x 1000 mm
Polymers
- TA instrument Q500 HighRes, thermogravimetry TGA (- 30 to 1000ºC)
- TA instrument Q20 MDSC, Calorimetry DSC (-90 to 500ºC)
- TA instrument Q800, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis DMA (-150 to 600ºC)
