Leartiker surpasses 2025 targets with record-breaking turnover

With a 15% growth in turnover compared to the previous year and a 23% increase (€3.8 million) in research and development income, this technology centre in Markina-Xemein (Bizkaia) is proud of its achievements. As a member of the BRTA alliance and part of the Mondragon group, these figures confirm Leartiker’s outstanding research and knowledge transfer, facilitated by close relationships with local companies and producers.

Bioengineering Breakthroughs: Hydrogels and Microgels Revolutionising Personalised Medicine

Leartiker Polymer Technology’s Health division is spearheading research to develop polymeric systems that encapsulate cellular components. These systems mimic the extracellular matrix, replicating the cells’ natural environment within the body.

Lactic acid to improve the hygiene quality of beef and develop preservative-free meat preparations

Leartiker's Food Design especialization has launched an initiative aimed at improving the hygiene quality of beef after slaughtering and quartering. An improvement that would allow the development of meat preparations without using preservative additives, while guaranteeing quality and safety.

Testing methods and neural networks for faster and more accurate predictions

Our team in the Sustainable Transport area of Polymers Technology is dedicated to unravelling the complexities of materials such as reinforced thermoplastics and thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) by analysing their mechanical behaviour through advanced testing systems and combining deep neural networks or Deep Learning. Two distinct methodologies with a common purpose: to predict the mechanical behaviour of thermoplastic materials more quickly and accurately and to provide practical and durable solutions for the transport industry, ensuring optimal performance and prolonging the service life of polymeric materials.

Molecular Methods to understand milk and cheese associated microbiota

Yogurts and cheeses produced in the dairy industry largely rely on microorganisms that generate characteristic flavors, textures, and properties. Advances in molecular biology techniques have made the identification and characterization of these microorganisms more precise. In various projects at Esneki Zentroa, we utilize the following molecular biology-based analyses and techniques to obtain exhaustive information about the microbiome of both milk and cheese.

Experts analyse the evolution of cholangiocarcinoma and search for treatments at Leartiker

2024-06-05

Jesús Bañales and Pedro Rodrigues (Ikerbasque, IIS Biogipuzkoa), Ana Lleo (Humanitas University, Milan), Patricia Aspichueta (UPV/EHU, IIS Biobizkaia), Iván Rivilla (Ikerbasque, DIPC) and Izar Gorroñogoitia (Leartiker) attended this specialist conference to discuss research into treatments, experimental models, chemotherapeutic agents, organ-on-a-chip microfluidic devices and the future prospects for this disease. In addition, Núria Campmany, Collaboration and Ecosystem Lead at EIT Health Spain, also gave a talk on EIT Health's public-private foundation.

Enhancing the value of laying hens through the development of new products

2024-05-16

MUSKA collaboration project was created: to maximise the value of spent laying hens for making broth and to create new pickled products using apple cider vinegar produced in the Basque Country. Delikatetxe Koop. Elk. Txikia and Sagar Zirkle S.L. are the leading Basque companies in this project, with Leartiker participating as a technological advisor.

Solutions to eliminate prototypes from the development phase of new electric vehicle suspension products

2024-05-09

Two years have passed since Leartiker joined the Future: Fast Forward (F3) cluster, or the Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE) for Electric and Connected Vehicles (VEC). Two years since we, alongside the company Kautenik (Berriatua, Bizkaia), started working on one of the 86 projects that have been carried out in this cluster, which aims to decarbonise the mobility sector and become a global leader in the automotive industry.

Knowledge transferability as the epicentre of work at the Leartiker Dairy Centre

2024-04-24

The motto of the Leartiker Dairy Centre is a mantra for the team: “Our milk, our producers, our health“. It is short, but with a wide range of research options and therefore a broad involvement of the R&D&i projects we have been working on for more than 15 years.