MINAM is born
28 January 2008
Austria
Brussels, January: More than 150 high ranking representatives of the European Commission, from industry and research institutes all over Europe, including Russia and Turkey, met in Brussels to celebrate their launch as a platform. “We need platforms like MINAM to help implementing the results from research to economic success,” said Dr. von Bose, DG Research, EU Commission, in his welcome address. The strong links between Information and Communication Technology and the MINAM community was one of the main points of the welcome address of Dr. Rosalie Zobel, DG Information Society and Media, EU Commission.
“MINAM is to become the worldwide network of leading European manufacturers and equipment-suppliers” said Prof. Matteazzi, MBM Nanomaterialia SpA and Chairman of the Industrial Management Board. “We are the European association in the field of micro and nano manufacturing.” The MINAM platform represents about 500 companies, research institutes and institutions from more then 30 countries, concerning the businesses of micro and nano production and concentrating all interested Europeans of both sides: The technology arc spans from nanomaterials, micro- and nanosurfaces, precision-/ microcomponents and microsystems, all the way to test and metrology systems and from manufacturing to equipment and equipment components.
The MINAM platform has been created to support the European manufacturers and equipment-suppliers in the field of manufacturing of micro- and nanotechnology products. It covers direct access to latest research and information about market trends. The driving forces, business needs and requirements behind the establishment of MINAM are defined by the necessity to broaden the range of the Microsystems-based products and at the same time to multiply their capabilities by the introduction of new materials and processes.
Because MINAM deals with manufacturing it naturally supports the European technology platform ManuFuture. ManuFuture, bringing together representatives of the core businesses of European industries, welcomes the MINAM community as a further enabler and building block for the bright picuture of European production industries.
And as the MINAM launch event shows, MINAM further has many complementary relationships to other European technology platforms as confirmed by speakers from EPoSS, Nanomedicine and SusChem, as well as from the newly formed Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI) “Clean Sky”.
During the information and brokerage session about 40 posters were shown by industry and research institutes to find partner for future EC funded research projects, which are continued by the online available matchmaking. Further information you will find under www.microandnanomanufacturing.eu or by the following addresses:
MINAM Industrial Management Board:
Andrea E. Reinhardt, microTEC Gesellschaft für Mikrotechnologie mbH, E-Mail: reinhardt@microtec-d.com
MINAM IMG Secretariats: Klaus Zimmer, Dr. Eric Maiser, VDMA
E-Mail: klaus.zimmer@vdma.org; eric.maiser@vdma.org
Dr. Theresa Burke, euspen
E-Mail: theresa.burke@euspen.com
MINAM OSG Secretariat: Dr. Wolfgang Schaefer
E-mail: wolfgang.schaefer@ipa.fraunhofer.de
“MINAM is to become the worldwide network of leading European manufacturers and equipment-suppliers” said Prof. Matteazzi, MBM Nanomaterialia SpA and Chairman of the Industrial Management Board. “We are the European association in the field of micro and nano manufacturing.” The MINAM platform represents about 500 companies, research institutes and institutions from more then 30 countries, concerning the businesses of micro and nano production and concentrating all interested Europeans of both sides: The technology arc spans from nanomaterials, micro- and nanosurfaces, precision-/ microcomponents and microsystems, all the way to test and metrology systems and from manufacturing to equipment and equipment components.
The MINAM platform has been created to support the European manufacturers and equipment-suppliers in the field of manufacturing of micro- and nanotechnology products. It covers direct access to latest research and information about market trends. The driving forces, business needs and requirements behind the establishment of MINAM are defined by the necessity to broaden the range of the Microsystems-based products and at the same time to multiply their capabilities by the introduction of new materials and processes.
Because MINAM deals with manufacturing it naturally supports the European technology platform ManuFuture. ManuFuture, bringing together representatives of the core businesses of European industries, welcomes the MINAM community as a further enabler and building block for the bright picuture of European production industries.
And as the MINAM launch event shows, MINAM further has many complementary relationships to other European technology platforms as confirmed by speakers from EPoSS, Nanomedicine and SusChem, as well as from the newly formed Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI) “Clean Sky”.
During the information and brokerage session about 40 posters were shown by industry and research institutes to find partner for future EC funded research projects, which are continued by the online available matchmaking. Further information you will find under www.microandnanomanufacturing.eu or by the following addresses:
MINAM Industrial Management Board:
Andrea E. Reinhardt, microTEC Gesellschaft für Mikrotechnologie mbH, E-Mail: reinhardt@microtec-d.com
MINAM IMG Secretariats: Klaus Zimmer, Dr. Eric Maiser, VDMA
E-Mail: klaus.zimmer@vdma.org; eric.maiser@vdma.org
Dr. Theresa Burke, euspen
E-Mail: theresa.burke@euspen.com
MINAM OSG Secretariat: Dr. Wolfgang Schaefer
E-mail: wolfgang.schaefer@ipa.fraunhofer.de