Noise is one of the main environmental risk factors to health. It is estimated that in Western Europe, 1.6 million years of healthy life are lost annually due to road traffic noise. DBWAVE, an ISQ Group company, has developed an innovative solution, incorporating artificial intelligence, to address this problem, helping various sectors of industry and…
The LightMe Project aims to establish a self-sustaining open innovation ecosystem for upscaling industrial processes concerning light metal alloys (aluminum, magnesium and titanium) composed of TRL 4, or from 5 to TRL 7.The properties of nanomaterials (NMs) differ from their micro and macro (bulk) counterparts. These differences are due to the specific physical and chemical…
ISQ, through its Metrology Laboratory Labmetro, is the 1st entity in Portugal to be accredited by IPAC – Portuguese Institute for Accreditation – for the calibration of optical particle counters, reducing the time spent on equipment calibration, since the equipment is sent to Accredited Laboratories outside Portugal.The calibration of optical particle counters (COP’s) according to…
Do you know if the water that flows from your tap meets the standards and is safe? And the food you buy at the supermarket, for example fresh produce, has been subjected to quality control? Are we consuming products with levels of pesticides that harm our health? And what is the quality of the air…
The topic of clean energy and sustainable development is at the heart of ISQ’s concerns, both for the market, through the provision of services to industry with innovative solutions developed by the R&D teams, and in the participation in major national and international projects. “We have just invested more than half a million Euros in…
ISQ has won another contract to train “green” energy experts in the scope of the ITER project, the world’s largest experimental project for nuclear fusion as a clean energy source. Under this contract with the European Fusion Energy Development Agency (F4E), ISQ will train technicians who are based in Spain, France, Germany, and Japan. “This…
With over 35 years of experience in the environment and sustainability area, ISQ continues to invest in knowledge and implementation of innovative services in the green sector. This time, it follows global market trends by investing in audits that promote the transparency of the use of proceeds statement in the acquisition of debt instruments to…
The largest technological interface center in Portugal will help to develop, in partnership with Eptune Engineering, a more sustainable solution in the framework of maintenance operations of wind turbine blades, by testing materials. At stake is the design of innovative components that integrate a new mobile platform solution for access to wind towers, allowing their…
ISQ was selected as R&D partner under the Green Deal to be part of the 100 MW green hydrogen production project in Sines. In consortium with 13 other entities – including EDP and GALP and partners from the academic and research world such as INESC-TEC and CEA – the project has a funding of 30…
Cybersecurity risks in industry and manufacturing are increasingly complex and with a tendency to grow, making it urgent to equip PMEs with the right tools for the dynamic environment of Industry 4.0. Cyberattacks are among the top five global risks, becoming the new standard in sectors such as energy, healthcare, and transportation. 60% of PMEs…