Nowadays the words globalisation, knowledge economy, sustainable development or change management haw become commonplace. The current and future success of companies is founded upon an effective management of innovation, which brings added strategic value to the sectors and economic activities to which they belong, making this the key factor of competitiveness and economic growth.

GRUPO INTERLAB works with the aim of becoming a strategic technological partner of its clients. This effort is translated not only in delivering tailor-made highly technological products, but in a constant quest of new ways to give an even more effective and agile service, that is best adapted to the ever changing needs of the market.

Because of this, we invest in the development of all our business areas, with actions ranging from opening new lines of work in the field of the environment ? such as new tools for investigating the aquatic environment according to the demands of the Water Framework Directive -, to setting-up sampling and analytical methods for substances of increasing environmental or hygienic interest, or developing proprietary ultrasounds-based inspection equipment of application in industry and transport.

PROJECTS

GRUPO INTERLAB has adopted, as an essential element of its company development strategy, the decision to promote the involvement of all of its business areas in research, development and innovation projects.

We favour and promote these actions, but are permanently open to receiving invitations to participate in projects leaded by others, which we will study with interest, as a function of their rigour and coherence with our company policies.

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Grupo Interlab has developed or is currently engaged in the following outstanding projects:

• Project ENV4-CT96-0343 entitled “Ecological Monitoring of Industrially Polluted Soils and Assessment of the Respective Remediation Techniques” (ECOMOSART) within the IV Research and Technological Development Programme of the European Commission (Environment and Climate).


• Project C26400 “River Pollution Status Monitoring in Europe” (RIPOSTE) funded by the TEN-TELECOM programme of the European Commission, involving the set-up and demonstration of novel networked automatic water quality monitoring systems.


• Train wheel inspection system. RENFE – ALSTOM. Ultrasounds-based inspection system, constructed using ULTRASEN technology developed by INTERLAB Electronic Engineering. Currently this is the only train wheel inspection system approved by RENFE (Spanish National Railways). To date there are seven of these units installed in RENFE maintenance workshops nationwide.


• Optical sensor development - several projects with the Complutense University of Madrid. INTERLAB has developed the OPTOSEN optical sensor technology for continuous measurement of chemical parameters, with numerous applications in environmental and the industrial fields. Among the sensors developed are those for the measure of dissolved oxygen, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), relative humidity, pH, ammonia and hydrocarbons.

Additionally, Grupo Interlab carries out internal development projects, with the aim of delivering improved services and products:

• CaiMAM Software – environmental project management tool used internally by the Environment department.


• LIMSoft – proprietary laboratory information management system. This tool is fruit of an internal development designed specifically for information management of Interlab’s chemistry, toxicology and microbiology laboratories.