Imast S.c.a.r.l.
Piazzale Enrico Fermi, 1
Loc. Granatello
80055 Portici (Neapel)
(Campania)
- Telephone:
- 0039 081 7769241
- Fax:
- 0039 081 7760741
- URL:
- www.imast.it
- President:
- Domenico Martorana
- Director:
- Evelina Milella
- Contact:
- Evelina Milella
- Email:
- segreteria@imast.it
Main points
ICT:
Software (use of programs for the collection and analysis of data); Microelectronics (organic materials for the realisation of memories and displays); Mechanical Engineering (integrated planning and realisation of structures made from innovative composite materials for various branches of industry); Aerospace (development of materials and technologies for the realisation of innovative space sub-systems);
Life Sciences and Materials:
Biotechnology (tissue polymer); Diagnostics (study and realisation of composite structures for the positioning of patients in magnet resonance diagnosis systems); Nanotechnologies (new materials with nanoparticles and commensurate technologies for their application in transport); Materials (multi-functional composite materials for the following industrial sectors: aerospace, vehicle technology, biomedicine, shipbuilding, civilian buildings, polymer electronics, rail technology); Fire (development of digital and experimental methods for the realisation of special facilities for testing and qualifying materials and the effects of fire); Adhesives (development of structural adhesives as an alternative bonding technique to the traditional bonding methods [welding, riveting, nailing and screwing]).
Brief description
The polymers and composite materials segment is relatively broad and its growth rate is considerable. For the world market with a current trading volume of over 61 billion dollars, a growth rate is estimated for the period 2004 to 2009 of 3.2 to 5 percent. Compared to other new materials, this market offers enormous potential for technological advances. What has emerged from a feasibility study conducted by McKinsey is that the public and private research activities in the Italian Region of Campania in the polymers and composite materials field with polymer matrix at national and international levels have an outstanding leading position: in Campania, 580 scientists are active, of whom 440 work in public institutions and 140 in private companies; 25 percent of the Italian scientific publications originate from scientists in Campania. These contributions on these topics are published in the best-known specialist journals. The scientific production of Campania in the polymers and composite materials segment is recognised worldwide. A wide-ranging network exists with the most important international scientific facilities.
The above named aspects formed the basis for the foundation of the Campania Technology District. On 17. July 2003, the Minister of Education, the Universities and Research, Letizia Moratti, and the President of the Region of Campania, Antonio Bassolino, signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the realisation of a Technology District in the Engineering of Polymers and Composite Materials and Structures field; on 11. February 2004, the administrative company for the District for the Engineering of Polymers and Composite Materials and Structures – IMAST S.c.a.r.l. was founded; on 09. March 2005, the Framework Programme between the Italian government and the Region of Campania was signed, by which the initiative for the Technology District was implemented.
The task of IMAST is to draw research, training and technological innovation together in a system, where the knowledge and expertise are used primarily for the industrial products and processes of the member companies.
- Companies:
- 11
- R&D facilities:
- 3
