Thanks to its ample spaces in the Palazzone, CREA has the opportunity to rent offices and laboratories to local businesses and companies. In addition to the premises provided, the hosted companies can utilize all common areas, including the lunch and coffee break room, the council room, the oval room for business meetings, and the conference hall. Placing your company within a Research Center promotes the development of positive synergies in the name of scientific-technological innovation, thanks to the opportunity to have high-performance laboratories and equipment “in-house.” For more information, please visit the following section of the website: https://www.crea.unisi.it/struttura/affitto-stanze/.
Currently, the companies and firms hosted at CREA Scarl are:
Ohmega Progettazioni was founded in 2009 with the goal of pursuing an ideal of efficient, comfortable, safe, and flexible installations over time. It is a professional studio that deals with innovative technologies, home automation, and technology transfer, aiming to offer services and products that lead to greater and better use of new technologies among professionals, businesses, and human environments. Specifically, the services they offer are:
- Smart Home: Utilizing the best technologies to create a custom home for their clients;
- Building Solution: Through the design of the BACS (Building Automation and Control System) according to the UNI EN 15232 standard;
- Training: Providing certified KNX courses and technical courses on installations and technological innovation.
ITS Energia e Ambiente is a center of excellence in Tuscany for advanced post-diploma training, preparing specialized technicians in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy.
The areas of interest are:
- Optimization of energy consumption
- Generation from renewable sources
The ITS Energia e Ambiente courses are aimed at young people with a secondary school diploma and involve two years of training, alternating classroom lessons, practical laboratory activities with highly technological tools and equipment, approximately 6-month company internships in Italy and abroad, seminars, educational visits, and meetings with representatives from the entrepreneurial world and the energy sector at regional and national levels.
One of the main objectives of ITS is to offer students direct experience with the working world during their studies and to guide them towards a path that considers both their peculiarities and aspirations and the trends and needs of the labor market.
ITS also offers professional training courses in the energy sector for operators and employees of SMEs in the Tuscan and national territories.
LMS ENERGIA is a consulting company operating in the energy services sector and is established as an ESCO (Energy Service Company). Its team of professionals offers innovative and integrated efficiency services, leveraging their multidisciplinary expertise in the energy and environmental sectors. They identify solutions capable of optimizing energy costs and exploring new opportunities introduced by the Energy Efficiency Certificate (TEE) incentive mechanism.
AIDILAB is a private company founded in 2010, intending to design and develop applications and services based on the needs of clients and end users. Whether it involves the development of mobile applications, devices, websites, or CRM and corporate sales processes, AIDILAB is a leader in design focused on behavioral analysis and exploring the ways people and objects interact. AIDILAB is a co-founder of UDOO, along with SECO Srl of which it is a part.
AIDILAB consists of a team of selected experts with years of experience in design, web marketing, and the development of innovative solutions for mobile systems, web, and embedded technologies (UDOO, Arduino, SBC, QSeven). They stay constantly updated through a close relationship with the research field and market feedback gathered from partners and collaborators. The company is capable of offering consulting and development services for web services, interfaces, and software development for embedded systems, delivering high-quality results and solutions.
The Jules Amonì brand was founded in 2019 from a project to recover the “botanicals” used in gin, developed right within CREA. To produce the famous spirit, not only juniper berries but also other aromatic substances such as herbs, flowers, and roots are used, which are quickly passed through by alcohol in vapor form. Once the process is complete, these botanicals can no longer be used. Aiming to recover and transform this “noble waste” from gin distillation into high-quality cosmetic ingredients, our laboratories produced the first product of the line, a solid scrub where the exfoliating part consists of these dried and crushed “botanicals.”
From this, in 2023, the Jules Amonì line was born, realizing a dream for Mari, the formulator, who holds a degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Cosmetic Sciences. Jules Amonì emerged from the intersection of sustainability and beauty, with the idea of creating eco-sustainable cosmetics, with minimal environmental impact and attentive to consumer needs.
First Health Pharmaceuticals holds a leadership position in the field of advanced RNA biochemistry. Their goal is to bring revolutionary drugs to market that will offer new hope to patients suffering from some of the most challenging diseases of our time.
Their laboratory at CREA hosts four main development units: Biology, Oncology, Pharmacology, and Chemical Synthesis & Analysis.
The laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments provided by CREA, such as the latest spectrometers, advanced automated plate readers, and cell counting equipment.
GE Distillery was established in 2019 within the laboratories of CREA with the goal of creating an innovative craft distillery that is deeply inspired by tradition and capable of producing high-quality new spirits, particularly London Dry Gin.
The design was developed in collaboration with Green Engineering (http://www.greeneng.it/), an international leader in the design and construction of distillation plants, and revolves around the English Bennet still. The creation of each Gin follows a precise process starting with the definition of the recipe and the selection of raw materials, carefully chosen one by one, beginning with the juniper.
In CREA’s laboratories, tests are conducted for recipe development, as well as specific instrumental and organoleptic analyses on each distillation batch, allowing for the control and tracking of product quality. Every phase of the process, including production, bottling, and packaging, takes place within the Distillery.
The creative team at GE Distillery also supports clients in developing labels, selecting bottles and caps, and defining packaging, to ensure a fully integrated process and guarantee a product of the highest quality in every single detail.
