Metec Innovation Consulting is a privately owned Italian SME high tech company actively involved in Service Engineering, Research, Development and Design activities in the field of Material Sciences and Computing, with headquarter in Turin, Italy.

The core business is now constituted from:

• Presentation and administrative management of Regional, National and European Research projects
• Design of special industrial equipment
• Definition, analysis and optimisation of metals machinability
• Definition, analysis and optimisation of metallic and non metallic materials pressing processes (hot-pressing, forging, forming, moulding, injection moulding, die-casting)
• Evaluation of the performance of cutting tools and cutting fluids
• Evaluation of the performance of punch and dies in different pressing processes
• Study, Research and Development of innovative materials (ceramics, cermets, reinforced materials ,composites)
• Research and development of innovative heat treatment processes
• Research and development off innovative surface treatment processes (plasma nitriding, ion implantation)
• Study, Research and development of thin films and thick films coating processes (PVD, CVD, CVI, Plasma Spray)
• Development of mathematical models and algorithms finalised to the correlation between mechanical properties and micro and nanostructures
• LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) of industrial advanced products and processes.
• Study and development of new applications of innovative coating processes in different fields (mechanical, chemical, decorative, biomedical)
• Standardisation and certification of special products and processes (e.g. cutting tools certification)