Basque-based aerospace technology and testing foundation CTA, backed by Gamesa, ITP and Sener, has acquired 8,300 square metres at the Miñano technology park where it is to build a 6 million-euro HALT (highly accelerated life test) lab, the first of its kind in Spain.
Covering 1,500 square metres of the recently acquired land, the new centre will house testing methods that substantially reduce the normal time it takes to make traditional resistance and fatigue tests for aerospace components.
With two fire and structural testing labs at Miñano and Zamudio in Bizkaia, CTA has been running tests on Airbus's A380 Super Jumbo. The research and testing foundation has also signed an agreement with Boeing and is set to work on Airbus's A-400M military transport aircraft.
Today, the Miñano technology park provides a home to 86 high-tech businesses with a 2,600-strong total workforce and 485 million euros in turnover altogether last year.
Basque Country's Mining Museum is the centre dedicated to the study and dissemination of the culture and history knowledge of the mining in the Basque Country as a whole and the mining area of Bizkaia in particular. It is located in the town of Gallarta, birthplace of Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria"), its famous syndicalist daughter and fervent advocate of miners' rights, in "Las Encartaciones" of Bizkaia, Basque Country, next to the great mass of open cast iron-working. Here in Gallarta too is the deepest open cast mine excavation, in the whole of the Basque Country, extending to 20 metres below sea level.
The Mining Museum Cultural Association, a non-profit making organization created in 1986 and manned by volunteers, has been taken charge of compiling and collating all the material and documentation relating to the old mines of Bizkaia. It has also been the entity that has pricked the conscience of institutions with its vision of the Basque Country's own Mining Museum, which is nowadays a reality.
Over a period of fifteen years, the Mining Museum Association has amassed a great number of pieces, tools, machinery and documents from the old iron workings, all of which will be on display in the Museum itself. One of the highlights is the largest collection in the Basque Country of light trucks and wagons used the iron ore.
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