national and European research projects in the areas of process automation, robotics, electromedical equipment, nanotechnologies, energy efficiency and eHealth. In 2000 the firm severed its ties with the C.A.T. PROGETTI group, of which it had been the research laboratory, to become an independent small and medium-sized enterprise in its own right. In 2008, together with two other small and medium-sized firms, the company was one of the founding partners of "INNOVANET" , a network of innovators affiliated to the Bologna branch of the Italian National Confederation of Artisans - CNA.