Certifications and Awards

CERTIFICATIONS:

ISO 9001: 2008, ISO 14001: 2004 and OHSAS 18001: 2007

CTC has its management system certified according to the "Quality Management System" UNE EN ISO 9001:2008 Standard, the "Environmental Management System" UNE EN-ISO 14001:2004 Standard and the "Occupational Health and Safety Management System" OHSAS 18001:2007 Standard.

This methodology allows CTC to maintain a culture of work based on efficiency and effectiveness as a basis for permanent improvement, always taking into account the maintenance of a sustainable environmental performance.

Moreover, it lays down a system to evaluate the capacity of the CTC to comply with the requirements of enterprises, the Cantabrian society and regulations that concern it.

POLICY OF QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENT

Components Technology Center is responsible for managing the transfer of technology to its customers generating value that enables them to maintain competitiveness levels consistent to their expectations.

The strengthening of CTC must be based on a continuous adaptation to its customers, looking for their satisfaction through their requirements in the field of technology and innovation development and complying with environmental protection legislation and other environmentally related requirements that CTC subscribes such as:

• Foster communication with its clients to adapt to their needs and environmental requirements.
• Make a sustainable use of natural resources, promoting the efficient use of energy and practices of reuse and recycling of waste generated by their activities.
• Use the skill, creativity, and energy of its employees to solve problems and make continuous improvements.
• Involve staff in the integral management system, transmitting this policy through training and enabling them to assume their responsibilities and improve day by day.
• Promote responsible environmental policies on the part of subcontractors requiring an improvement in their practices, to suit the CTC on environmental matters.
• Allocate the resources necessary for achieving an integrated system of environment management and quality.

This policy agrees with the clear commitment by all CTC members to meet the regulatory requirements and continually improve the effectiveness of the integrated system of quality and environment management by establishing and regularly reviewing its objectives and targets.

AWARDS:

TECHNOLOGICAL CENTRE

The CTC was recognized in 2004, by the Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT) as a "Centre of Innovation and Technology", Registration No. 79. In November 2012 CTC renewed this registration, now as "Technological Centre", allowing it to develop projects of any level of complexity with maximum guarantees.

Nowadays the research and experimental development activities are conceived as actions devoted to be integrated into new productive processes or services through the transfer of the technology resulting from the research activity.

One of the most effective ways to transfer the technology is to promote the activity of the centres of innovation and technology. In order to meet the requirements the companies, to execute research and development projects, to provide technological services, to contribute to the transfer of research results, to promote inter-firm cooperative research and, in general, to raise their technological level and competitiveness. Thus these centres constitute an effective instrument binding the research sector and the industry.

RESEARCH RESULTS TRANSFER OFFICE (OTRI)

The CTC was recognized in 2004, by the Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT), as "Research Results Transfer Office" (OTRI), Registration No.193.

The OTRI were born at the end of 1988 as a structure to encourage and facilitate R & D cooperation between researchers and companies, in both national and European activities. Years later, they were granted official status with the creation of an official register of OTRI in the Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT).

The OTRI is an interface unit in the science-technology-industry system, whose primary mission is to boost relations between system entities.  To do so, the OTRI strives to identify the technological needs of socio-economic sectors and to encourage the transfer of technology between the public and the private sectors, thereby contributing to the implementation and marketing of the results of the R & D generated in universities and public research centres. The OTRI network currently has more than 170 offices.