Partners

The OPTIMALT consortium is composed by 3 technical centers or universities (so called RTD-performers), as well as 11 industrial partners:
6 Industrial Associations from the malting barley chain, a small brewery, a grower of malting barley, 3 equipment and component manufacturers.
6 countries are represented in the project which is coordinated by IRIS.

The Industrial Partners

Asociación Empresarial de las Cinco Villas AECV
Asociación Empresarial de las Cinco Villas is a multisectoral non-profit association that represents, manages and defends the interests of local enterprises in order to boost and promote the business of the area.
Among their members, they have an agricultural cooperative dedicated to the cultivation of cereals, including malting barley.
www.civinegocio.com

ASSOBIRRA
ASSOBIRRA is the foremost Association in Italy for the Brewing and Malting industries.
They represent the interests of the malting and brewing members and are committed to raising quality standards and boosting the competitiveness and profitability of their members.
www.assobirra.it

Cerveses La Gardenia
Cerveses La Gardenia commenced operation in 2007 brewing Rosita® a new local beer from Tarragona with rose flavor meeting tremendous success, as well as other beer products.
www.rosita.cat

Food Industries Federation of Austria FIAA
FIAA is a Federation that lobbies in the interests of the food industry of Austria and also carries out a comprehensive series of services directed at its member companies.
They have a competence center and work as analyst and advisor in all areas of the food industry.
www.dielebensmittel.at

GASERA
GASERA is a university spinoff company developing portable, accurate, highly sensitive and selective measuring equipment that enables analysis of gases, liquids, and solid materials.
These industry driven technologies are based on PAS (Photo Acoustic Spectroscopy) and FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) principles to make.
www.gasera.fi

ELINTARVIKETEOLLISUUSLIITTO RY
Finnish Food and Drink Industries´ Federation
The Finnish Maltsters’ Association promotes the interests of the malting industry in Finland, presenting its members’ views in tax, food safety, research, and raw material issues.
www.etl.fi

LNL
LNL is a Turkish SME founded in October 2007 and based on 20 years experience in the field of intelligent systems for production, agriculture and energy industries.
They offer expertise in the development of embedded systems, software and other related area.
www.lnl.com.tr

OPTOMESURES
OPTO is an innovative French start up founded in late 2005 that designs and manufactures measuring equipment and systems mainly for the food industry.
Most of their developments are based on spectroscopy, for instance they recently launched a novel microlab for wine analysis.
www.optomesures.fr

Petita i Mijana Empresa de Catalunya (PIMEC)
PIMEC is an association of small and medium sized enterprises from the Catalonian region.
PIMEC’s mission is defending and representing the interests of SMEs spread over different sectors, a large concentration of which in food and drink processing industries and more especially in the malting barley chain.
They offer services to help SMEs become more competitive and raise their innovation and technological profiles.
www.pimec.cat

Perä Jussi
Perä Jussi is Finnish malting barley farmer, with over 20 years experience in the cultivation of barley for malting purposes, supplying Raisio Oyi Group with 250-400 tonnes per year.

PROAGRIA
PROAGRIA is an agricultural association from Finland and a leading agricultural expert organisation, serving members as well as other rural entrepreneurs.
www.proagria.fi

The Research Partners

CERB, University of Perugia
The Italian Brewing Research Centre (CERB) is the first research institute on beer in Italy.
It is the result of a bilateral agreement between University of Perugia and ASSOBIRRA to reach common aims to support and promote excellence in the beer sector.
CERB’s activities include research, experimentation, analysis and training for the beer and raw materials.
www.agr.unipg.it

VTT Optical Instrumentation Center
VTT is a Finish multidisciplinary technical center.
Its objective is to develop new technologies, create new innovations and value added thus increasing customer’s competitiveness.
Among many others areas of technological focus, VTT has a very strong tradition in optical sensor and instrumentation technology.
www.vtt.fi

IRIS, Innovació i Recerca Industrial i Sostenible.
Innovació i Recerca Industrial i Sostenible (IRIS) was established in 2007 and is a private research performing company based in Catalunya (Spain) providing R&D and engineering solutions for process optimization, process monitoring and process control in the fields of agro-food, materials, environmental solutions, among others.
IRIS is based in a fully equipped science park outside Barcelona from where it serves local industry, and, via its involvement in transnational R&D projects, IRIS has also been very active in providing applied research solutions to wider communities of European industry.
www.iris.cat