CARTIF

CARTIF It is a horizontal, private and non-profit Technology Center. Its mission is to offer innovative solutions to companies to improve their processes, systems and products, improving their competitiveness and creating new business opportunities.

CARTIF develops R&D&I projects financed directly by companies or through public funds obtained in competitive calls at a national and international level. CARTIF also advises public administrations (municipalities and regional governments) in the planning and development of innovative projects with high economic return.

CARTIF is a multidisciplinary center that develops its activity in multiple areas of knowledge focused on almost all economic sectors: energy, food, industry, construction and infrastructure, health and environment, with technological lines that respond to the main challenges in each of them. them, such as smart networks, smart cities, energy efficiency, heritage, quality of life, circular economy, natural resources and biotechnology.

In the area of BiotechnologyIn CARTIF, various areas of knowledge and tools based on biotechnology and green chemistry are integrated for the improvement and sustainability of industrial processes, the environment and quality of life. It is committed to the research and implementation of solutions applied to the industrial sector (agri-food, chemistry, materials), from the point of view of the development of more efficient, sustainable products and processes integrated into the useful life cycle.

• ACTIVITY: investigation.
• LOCATION: Boecillo (Valladolid).
• CONSTITUTION DATE: 1994. 
• CATEGORY: technology Center.
• CONTACT: cartif@cartif.es

• NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 180.
• INCOME: 10.435.565 €.
• GENERAL DESCRIPTION: CARTIF is a horizontal, private and non-profit Technology Center, whose mission is to offer innovative solutions to companies to improve their processes, systems and products, improving their competitiveness and creating new business opportunities.
• BUSINESS LINES:
  • R&D projects in public calls
  • R&D projects for companies
  • Technological services to companies
  • Laboratories
• INFRASTRUCTURE: CARTIF is established in 3 divisions:
  • Agri-Food and Processes Division
  • Industrial and Digital Systems Division
  • Energy Division
• DATA OF INTEREST: 

TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPLY/DEMAND:

• Experimental studies of advanced fermentation bioprocesses for the transformation of biomass.
• Development of new processes for obtaining biodiesel.
• Feasibility studies of catalytic reactions and their kinetics.
• Design and scaling of chemical processes.
• Use of plastics and waste recovery through bioprocesses.

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

• REHAP. European Commission H2020
• BIOMASS C+. LIFE European Commission
• REPLACE. ADE – CyL Business Innovation and Financing Agency
• AQUAMUNDAM. European Union – POCTEP
• BIOSPHERE. European Commission H2020

COMPLETED PROJECTS

• VALUE-PLUS. European Commission – KBBE
• BIOSEVILLE. LIFE European Commission
• FT BIOREFINERY. Ministry of Science and Innovation