"Early 2005 Flanders Materials Centre (Flamac) was founded by three leading companies with important research and development activities in Flanders (Agfa, Arcelor and Umicore) together with Agoria Vlaanderen.

Flamac's objective is to become a competence centre in ""High Throughput

Methodologies"" to support research for the materials industry. This way, innovative research for new materials and formulations, their properties and applications will be accelerated and broadened.

Flamac will develop and apply combinatorial experimentation methods and pragmatic modelling techniques to that purpose. It wants to offer a service in collaborative, multi-disciplinary research between industry, universities and research centres.

Flamac's competence in ""High Throughput Methodologies"" should enable both large corporations and small & medium sized companies to stimulate new product and process development and to shorten their time-to-market for new materials.

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