Startups

Idea Lignum develops high technological content solutions for the timber, furniture, and sustainable building industries. Its activities include the design and marketing of software and hardware for intelligent machines, artificial intelligence based solutions, augmented reality and IoT, applied in wood processing.

Proxima Robotics is a company specialized in the development of highly modular and flexible software for mobile robots, in particular AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) and AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robots). Born out of the passion of a team of artificial intelligence and automation experts, the company concentrates on the realization of leading edge software systems, capable of simplifying the management of autonomous vehicles in diverse manufacturing and logistical contexts.

BB EVO is an innovative start-up company that supports new projects in the mechanical and hydraulic areas.

Mark One is a unique industry. We develop and design our own 3D printers from the ground up, with the highest quality and the finest precision, using noble and industrial automation grade materials. Our printers can be tailored to customer needs, specific requirements ranging from the machine cosmetics to the HW-SW configuration.

MAPO (Most Advanced Process Optimisation) engineers and markets highly innovative and highly technological software products and related services, associated to the dematerialisation of paper documents. MAPO has its roots in national and European R&D projects in the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The company is therefore very willing to collaborate fully on industrial innovation projects that require the rapid development of prototypes or the engineering of existing prototypes, related to their skills.

Nanolever produces customizing force transducers for automatic machines and packaging, applications for the wind tunnel, scientific equipments and integrated devices for induction cookers for intelligent domotics.

ASTRACEC SRL is a mechanical engineering firm designing, manufacturing, and marketing industrial quality control machines for the pharmaceuticals sector.ASTRACEC SRL produce automatic machines for testing the airtightness of medical bags (also called leak testing) for intravenous infusion fluids.We apply an innovative patented technology that offers considerable advantages compared to other technologies available on the market:

Provides design services and electronic systems analysis for mission-critical applications, such as electromedical equipment, transport systems, automatic vehicles, industrial vehicles and energy systems.

SHE TOWER is an innovative startup in the agritech sphere and in particular for aeroponic soil-less cultivation.We intend to be pioneers in this new form of agriculture, an ecosystem that unites technology, sustainability, and integrated production.Our challenge is to spread a soil-less cultivation philosophy that is:

Overmatic develop innovative solutions for automation in the sheet metal processing sector. The current project involves the introduction of a patented system for automatic tool change over for bending presses, designed to improve efficiency and speed, especially in automated set-ups with robots.

FAST10 is a spinoff accredited by the ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, specialized in screw fastening systems. FAST10 was born out of more than 15 years of experience by the founding partners in research and industrial consultancy regarding mechanical fastening systems.Screw fasteners are used in all industrial products, greatly conditioning cost and reliability. FAST10 provides an integrated service including:

The corporate purpose is the development, production, and marketing, also by e-commerce, of innovative products and services. More specifically this means the development, production, and marketing of a web platform designed to facilitate commercial/production interactions between operators in the mechanical products market, aiming to improve the interface between sellers and potential customers, with special attention to the bearing and pneumatics sectors.

AlmaPlasma is a company that aims to design, manufacture and market advanced technological solutions in the field of atmospheric pressure thermal and non-thermal plasmas, developed by the Industrial Applications of Plasma (IAP) group at the University of Bologna.

Futur-e Foiling design and construct electrical water craft with hydrofoil systems that are capable of rising up from the water surface to reduce resistance and increase efficiency, stability, and autonomy.The top model is about 5.2 m long and combines a design inspired by supercars with electro-hydraulic kinematic systems derived from advanced motor vehicle technology.

K3RX is a deep-tech spin-off from CNR, founded in 2021 in Imola and setting out to develop and market light compound carbon ceramic materials with extremely high resistance to heat and wear. Applications range through the aerospace, car racing, and energy sectors.