Edertek Technology Centre
Innovation is our main way of handling challenges within the sector. Fagor Ederlan’s Edertek Technology centre is where ideas are transformed into new products, materials and advanced processes.
Foresight, the key to our innovation model
At Edertek, innovation can be sensed and touched. We turn ideas into innovative solutions, based on our experience and knowledge of how the product functions.
We foresee technology, accompanying our customers through key aspects of the components. Our research team works on key product and technology issues, making the sector’s challenges our challenges. As lead actors, we have developed a groundbreaking innovation programme that focuses on advancing our technologies, reducing weight, electrification and Industry 4.0.
High transfer capability: no gap between R+D and production plants
Our installations, dedicated exclusively to our innovation programme, faithfully recreate an environment similar to mass production, so developments can be transferred directly to our production plants.
- Advanced Innovation Unit with state-of-the-art HPDC, LPDC, Gravity fed, Machining and Casting facilities
- Validation and trials
- Material science laboratory
Innovation: our way of doing things
Open, collaborative innovation
Our commitment to knowledge and a collaborative innovation model provide the basis for our research work. We work very closely with our customers’ engineers, sharing challenges and endeavours made to technologically transform the automotive industry. Alliances with technology centres, universities and partners allow us to develop innovative solutions and advance collective intelligence towards mobility of the future.
IKERLAN
Ally for scientific-technological excellence.
TECNALIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Ally for applied innovation.
MONDRAGON UNIBERTSITATEA
Academic and research-related ally.
Training technology futures
As a cooperative, we trust in the human facet of our organisation. We believe that people, and talent that they provide, is the basis for building both our future and that of the industry. We work actively with educational centres and universities to promote the transfer of knowledge towards the industry.
Doctoral students
DUAL training
