Value proposition

Innovation in Research and Engineering Solutions.
We Deliver the LeaDeRS Approach.

IRES is an independent consulting company, providing specialized services in the fields of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS), Nanotechnology and Digitization of Materials Characterization, incorporating Data driven methodologies (Machine Learning).

The Departments by design...

A. Sustainability & Circularity Group
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▪️LCSA=LCA+LCC+sLCA
▪️Comparative LCA reports for products
▪️Carbon footprints of your products or processes
▪️LCI data development regarding NMs
▪️Preparation of EPDs / Eco-labels
▪️Custom simplified LCA tool development
▪️Circular economy

B. Risk & (nano)Safety Group
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▪️Nanosafety consulting
▪️Nanomaterial Process Risk evaluation
▪️On-site Airborne (nano)particle exposure assessment
▪️Screening measurements for process VOC emissions
▪️Nanomechanical property testing on nano-enabled composites
▪️Additive manufacturing process exposure assessment
▪️Guidance towards Safer-by-Design processes

C. Data science, Materials Science Digitization Group
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▪️Machine Learning for Material Science
▪️Computer Vision
▪️Domain Ontologies
▪️Data Management

🏁We act as translators: bridging the gap between... Academia 🧩 Industry.
The goal is to make both sides understand each other's reading of the situation.

Funded by European Commission, we are also proud to have participated in 38 EU funded projects.

We participate in...

🔗European Materials Characterization Council (EMCC)
🔗European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC)
🔗The European Pilot Production Network (EPPN)
🔗Carbon Fibres & Advanced High Performance Composite Cluster
(CFPC)
🔗NanoSafety Cluster (NSC)
🔗Formnext 2021 in Frankfurt, Germany
🔗JEC World 2022 in Paris, France
🥇🥈🥉Three times winner in Manufacturing Excellence Awards 2021 and 2024
2021: Gold Award in the category Research and development (R&D) &
2021:Silver Award in the category Employee health & safety.

Life cycle assessment, Life cycle cost, Risk, Risk analyst, Safety, Safe by design, Nanosafety, Materials engineering, Materials science, Raw materials, Data management, Databases, Metadata, Design, Desicion making, Regulations, Reliability, Sustainability, Performance, Engineering, Characterisation, Environment, Environmental, Nanotechnology, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Collection, End-to-End pipeline, Safe innovation, Circular economy, and Sustainable