The Spanish subsidiary of James Hardie Industries, a world leader in fibre-cement and fibre-gypsum building materials. It operates from Cantabria and manages the Fermacell brand and high-performance building board solutions in Spain.
The "Crash materials and structures" platform is dedicated to identifying high strain rate mechanical properties at the material scale and verifying crash performance at the structure scale.
The platform is dedicated to the study of high-temperature rheology of metal alloys and the characterisation of material-process couplings.
It is a set of equipment dedicated to the characterisation of materials and structures under extreme conditions of temperature, loading and deformation speed, and for various materials.
Materia Nova, R&D center located in Mons, is recognized as a technological accelerator of sustainable innovations in the field of new materials and processes.
OUR SERVICES
Materia Nova's approach is based on open and collaborative innovation articulated around five services :
• Materials and Processes conception and innovation • Equipment Design and Process Upscaling • Analysis and Characterization
• Life Cycle Thinking
• Project Development and Management
OUR TECHNOLOGIES AND SOLUTIONS