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Fundación TEKNIKER is a private non profit Research Centre for the metalworking, automotive and aeronautic industry financed by contractual research and development activities. TEKNIKER has approximately 190 employees and 20 granted students. The final aim of every activity of TEKNIKER is to increase competitiveness of metalworking, automotive and aeronautic industry by improving its technological level.

The micro- and nano-technologies department at TEKNIKER covers the development of manufacturing processes to enable to generate structures in different materials on a scale from 10 nm to 100 µm. The ultimate aim is to obtain replication methods efficient enough to allow competitive mass production. The processes worked on are many and varied: nanoimprint lithography, soft lithography, UV lithography, fine deposition, plasma etching or micro-milling, micro-WEDM and laser ablation with pulses in the femtosecond range.