CTC
Centro Tecnológico Nacional de la Conserva y Alimentación (CTC)
Visite su web: http://www.ctnc.es/
The National Technological Center of the Canning and Food (CTC) has its origin in the Research Association of the Industriy of Vegetable Preserves (AICV), founded in 1962. Currently, it functions as a technology centre that serves as a basic infrastructure for assistance and the technological development of enterprises of the agro-food sector. It offers technology pilot plant services, development of new products and technologies applied to the sector, management of quality, research and development assistance, collaborates in the implementation of business projects, environmental management of businesses, environmental projects applied to agro-business development, technology transfer, organization of congresses and national and international symposium and training, among others, for morre than 100 associates and 500 collaborators.
CTS is a non profit organization, which is recognized by the Spanish Government as an Innovation and Technological Centre (CIT-51), an office of transfer of research results (OTRI), and it is declared of public use (INT 445/2004 Order dated January 15th).
CTC has experience in European projects: EUROMANAGEMENT; MED BIO Distri - INTERREG III B MEDOCC; FOOD SAFE - LEONARDO DA VINCI; Sustainable Technology for Economic Processing (STEP) - Interreg IIIB MEDOCC; Strategic Intelligence and Innovative Clusters (Stratinc) - INTERREG IIIC. In National and Regional R&D projects, CTC carries out several activities like development of molecular methods (PCR and DNA Arrays) for identifying and/or quantifying transgenic DNA in food products. For all these activities, CTC has six labs (physic-chemical and sensorial lab, microbiology, containers, instrumental, food safety and water and environment) and a technology area with a pilot plant with the mayority of agrofood processes.
