AIMME

AIMME, Instituto Tecnológico Metalmecánico (Technological Institute for Metal and Mechanics) is a non-profit organisation created in 1987 devoted to support and promote the technological development in the companies of the metal mechanic sector. Currently near 600 companies are AIMME affiliates.

The main activities of AIMME are related to: products and materials testing, surface technologies, automatisation, engineering and design, information and training, quality systems implantation, and environmental technologies. In this last field AIMME is participating in clean technologies projects within the LIFE programme, and has a wide experience in environmental diagnosis in companies. In the Enviredox proposal AIMME is the co-ordinator of the consortium.

AIMME actions in industrial environment are focused in five groups of activities:

1. Environmental managment and audit.
2. Decontamination projects and plants design.
3. Research & Development projects and tecnology transfer.
4. Training.
5. Other singular actions.
   

All this activities means more than 200 actions in the period 1996-1999 with enterprises or groups of enterprises in the fields referred before, mainly related with environmental management and projects.

Within the R&D projects two action lines are pointed out:

• Demonstration projects, as actions carried out inside LIFE program, where they are working with zero discharing tecnology for the surface treatment industry. This project involves 30 enterprises of the metal finishing sector.
• The Tecnology Transfer projects where singular actions have been implemented with near 100 enterprises of the sector.

AIMME approaches moreover training programs related with:

• Continuous training and profesional recycling.
• Generic training in water ingeniering as the Master in Management and Treatment of Industrial Residual Waters.
• Point out within the singular actions:
• The design of pilot plants of water treatment for the Water Management Service Center of the Environment Council.
• The environmental diagnosis of the Metalmecanic sector, where, ,in addition to approach the residues inventory generated by more than 17.000 industrial, comercial and service enterprises wich belong to the sector, a sectorial plan of residues is proposed. This plan designs the most urgent actions that the sector requires for its conformation with environmental regulation.