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Gonzalo Garcia Fuentes, PhD

Head of Surfaces and Technologies

Asociación de la Industria Navarra (AIN)

PAMPLONA, NAVARRA, Spain

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Sustainable, waste-free materials and coatings with application in the water treatment and green-H2 production based on chemical and electrochemical methods.

My organisation

AIN is non-profit association recognized as technological centre, gathered 165 companies mainly manufacturers (agri-food, automotive, machine producers. Etc) and we are a contact point for the Enterprise Europe Network EEN. Our expertise from technological areas are: Digital Technologies Sensors and communications division: focused in the field of sensors, signal processing, control, electronic design and communications, also reliability and Predictive Maintenance, monitoring and control. A specific team is specialized in AI related to GenAI, digital twin, data governance, AI robotics. Environmental and engineering division: Energy efficiency (H2 – Biogas), energy audits and measurement implementation, lean production, waste and heat efficiency (district heating), water recovery, predictive maintenance monitoring, life cycle assessment, New facilities for new uses of renewable energy and application of new energy efficiency technologies, Advanced Materials Division: Agrotechnology, organic waste valorisation, new fertilizer and phytosanitary development through active compounds encapsulations. Also, expertise on surface technologies and tribology, assessment and environmental projects, advanced surface technologies and materials such as functional coatings, thermochemical treatments, as well as synthesis and complex chemical formulations for different application sectors, such as functional coatings, thermochemical treatments, as well as synthesis and complex chemical formulations for different application sectors. We also have expertise in managing programmes: Digital transformation planes (I4.0), strategic planning, organisational agile transformation (to adopt digitization), technical training. AIN is a member of the EDIH IRIS https://www.irisnavarra.com/ and we are managing a Digital Accelerator Office for SME https://oapiris.ain.es/ AIN is active in few EU platforms: \-The Vanguard Initiative ESM pilot (Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing), AI & HMI \- S3Industrial Modernization: Smart Sensors 4 Agri-food SS4AF, AI & HMI Process4Plante (former SPIRE), Raw Materials Alliance EU, European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform, EPT-nanomedicine, European Technology Platform in Additive Manufacturing, European Clean Hydrogen Alliance and S3IM Hydrogen Valleys platform. mapping in Spain: https://mapa.estrategiaia.es and we are promoter member of IRIS DIH Navarra. AIN brings knowledge and experience to the consortium completing capacities \-The Vanguard Initiative ESM pilot (Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing), AI & HMI \- S3Industrial Modernization: Smart Sensors 4 Agri-food SS4AF, AI & HMI Process4Plante (former SPIRE), Raw Materials Alliance EU, European Clean Hydrogen Alliance and S3IM Hydrogen Valleys platform.
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About me

Head of Surface & Advanced Materials at Asociación de la industria navarra. PhD in Physics, more than 25 years experience in PVD and thin film analysis. Associate lecturer at the Public University of Navarra. Associate editor of Manufacturing Review journal. Coordinator of the EU project M2DESCO (grant nr 101138397).

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Skills

  • magnetron sputtering
  • Oblique angle deposition
  • HEA nitride coating
  • PGM-free catalytic coatings

Interests

  • Seek collaborations with RES Academia and SMEs
  • Advanced tool coatings
  • Catalysis, green-H2, bi-polar plates
  • Water treatment by electro-chemical oxidation
  • Electrochemistry-based water treatment

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Areas of activity

Water managementSteel and metals

Region

ES-NAVARRA

THEMATIC GROUPS INTEREST

TG-Circular water in the industryTG-Circular metals and mineralsTG-Design out of waste