ITENE

ITENE has been offering custom solutions for all companies that integrate the value chain in the 4 main areas they work in for 30 years:  materials and technologies for the circular economy, safety, design and functionality of packaging and containers, safety and technologies for environmental monitoring and transportation, mobility, and digital transformation.

Specifically, ITENE has the experience and appropriate facilities to develop biotechnological solutions aimed at the valorization of organic by-products and packaging waste. The high added value products obtained have applications in various industrial sectors, including: packaging, cosmetics, detergents, agriculture, nutraceuticals, and food. 

Additionally, they define and develop biotechnological processes for obtaining high added value products using the most sustainable and technically economically viable biotechnologies possible. These processes are developed on a laboratory scale, being scalable in their facilities to pilot plant volumes, allowing them to have a closer vision of the industrialization of the process through technical-economic analyses of the same. 

  • ACTIVITY: R&D+i technology center offering testing, consulting, and training services.
  • LOCATION: Paterna (Valencia).
  • DATE OF ESTABLISHMENT: 30/05/1994.
  • CATEGORY: National non-profit private association.
  • CONTACT: info@itene.com
  • WEB: Web ITENE
  • NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 203.
  • REVENUE: 13.28 M€ (data from 2023).
  • DESCRIPTION: ITENE provides companies with cutting-edge knowledge and technology to build a safer and more sustainable future in four major areas: sustainable materials and technologies for the circular economy; design, safety, and functionality in packaging; environmental monitoring security and technologies, and transportation, mobility, and digital transformation.
  • BUSINESS LINES:
    • R&D projects: either from public calls or alongside companies, as technological partners, in the development and execution of R&D projects.
    • Testing services.
    • Technological consulting.
    • Specialized training services or in-company.
  • INFRASTRUCTURE: 12,000 m2 spread across 2 owned buildings. Of these, 5,000 m2 are laboratories and pilot plants equipped with cutting-edge technology.
  • INTERESTING DATA:
    • +85% of the activity is R&D +i.
    • 2,390 clients (2018-2024).
    • R&D projects: +460 (2020-2023).
    • +500 types of tests.
    • EU cooperative research in R&D (2007-2024).
      • 117 European projects.
      • 41.25M€ in returns from the EU for research.

TECHNOLOGICAL OFFER/DEMAND:

ITENE offers technologies framed within the 4 described blocks, and in particular, in the field of biotechnologies, sustainable technologies, and circular economy, ITENE offers the following advanced technological services:  

  • Obtaining second-generation macronutrients (sugars, amino acids, and fatty acids) (TRL6).
  • Obtaining microorganisms and extracts with biostimulant activity (TRL6).
  • Obtaining microorganisms with probiotic activity and postbiotic extracts (TRL5).
  • Adaptive evolution of microbial strains to make biotechnological processes more sustainable and technically and economically more viable (TRL4).
  • Obtaining precursors of biopolymers/cosmetic ingredients.
  • Bacterial cellulose (TRL 5).
  • Organic acids (lactic and succinic) (TRL6) and hyaluronic acid (TRL4).
  • PHAs (TRL5).
  • Oligoqueratins (TRL6).
  • Obtaining active compounds from raw materials and organic by-products: antioxidants (TRL5), antimicrobials (TRL4) or prebiotics (TRL4).
  • Development and heterologous expression of industrially relevant enzymes (TRL5).
  • Development of enzymatic hydrolysis processes of PET and multilayer materials containing PET (recovery of polyolefin fractions) (TRL6).
  • Acceleration of composting processes (TRL4).
  • PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT:
    • ESSENTIAL 2024 / Valencian Department of Innovation
    • TRIBIOME / HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-09
    • FLEXIZYME / HORIZON-JU-CBE-R-03
    • EXPLORE / HORIZON-CL6-2024-CIRCBIO-01-10
    • NIAGARA / HORIZON-CL6-2022-ZEROPOLLUTION-01
    • FUELGAE / HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-03-07
    • MOEBIOS / HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023
    • BIO4HUMAN / HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01
    • BIOCEL / R&D projects in strategic lines in public-private collaboration 2021
  • COMPLETED PROJECTS:
    • ESSENTIAL 2023 / Valencian Department of Innovation
    • AGROMATTER / Cervera Network Centers 2021
    • RECYPET / FEDER IVACE 2022
    • ENZYCLE / H2020
    • VALOCEL / FEDER IVACE 2022