The European Commission, through the ‘Fast Track to Innovation’ (FTI) programme, has allocated €1.59M for the commercialisation of the Neoballast R&D project. Led by the technical and R&D area of COMSA and with the participation of Spanish, Belgian and Italian companies, the project aims to improve the properties of railway ballast to reduce the...
World creativity & innovation day (April 21) Innovation as a lever for the development of new technologies that improve the quality of infrastructure. This has been one of the strategic pillars of COMSA Corporación throughout its 125 year history. In 1982, it was the first company to commission the Rapid Track Renewal Train in...
COMSA’s technical department has developed an intelligent system that calculates the fastest and optimal route for vacating buildings and facilities in emergency situations due to fire. The program allows the location of the area where the fire originated and, through a combination of sound and optical signals, discernible regardless of the thickness of the...
COMSA, through its technical area, is participating in the European R&D project Anagennisi, whose objective is the reuse of end-of-life tyres to improve the strength of concrete in the construction of tunnels, buildings and other structures in civil works. Through extensive experimental work, the project has successfully demonstrated that certain tyre components such as...
World stroke day (October 29) The FISIOROB R&D project for clinical rehabilitation, led by the Innovation Department of COMSA EMTE group, has created a prototype for the recovery of mobility of the upper extremities for patients who have suffered a stroke. The project consortium has developed a robotic arm that allows people with neuromotor...
The director of COMSA’s Technical Area, Valentí Fontserè, was one of the speakers invited to the 9th edition of the High Speed World Congress, which was held from 7 to 10 July in Tokyo (Japan), presenting the preliminary results of an R&D project to improve the properties of rail ballast. The objective of the...
The R&D&i project EALS (Automatic Sanding Station for large Surfaces), led by the EMTE engineering company, has developed a robotic station allowing the sanding of large structures, such as the surfaces of trains, aircraft and ships, after a three-dimensional analysis of detected imperfections. It is an innovative project because, until now, there was no...
Adasa, a company specialising in hydraulic and environmental technological solutions and part of the COMSA EMTE group, took part in a conference on technological innovation in the treatment and management of water organised by the Círculo Tecnológico de Cataluña (CTecno) in Girona on 13 February. The director of products and solutions at Adasa, Jordi...
The VIII International Conference on Engineering for High Speed, an annual event organised by the Fundación Caminos de Hierro, took place in Cordoba between 25 and 27 June. In this year’s edition, the conference focussed on the 50 years of evolution (1964-2014) of the high-speed networks, from the Shinkansen (Japanese high-speed railway) to today’s...
The Ministry of Industry has granted the company IPT recognition for being a pioneer in the registration of “.es” Internet domains. The telecommunications company of COMSA EMTE’s Engineering line of business won the award along with around a hundred companies, universities and public institutions across all the autonomous regions for being amongst the first...
