ITMA Materials Technology is a Spanish private and non-profit technological organisation, which aims at promoting companies' innovation through applied research and technological development in the field of materials science. ITMA manages two centres with nearly 7.000 m2, 4.600 m2 of which are dedicated to laboratories and has a total staff of 104 employees, 62% of which are highly qualified university degrees in engineering, chemistry and physics. Research performed in ITMA is fully multidisciplinary and targets at six strategic sectors: Health, Energy, Security & Defence, Steel & Metallurgy, Optics & Electronics and Refractory..