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E-beam lithography on our JEOL SEM

Tetyana Shalomayeva, Field Service Engineer at Raith, has been installing a Raith e-beam setup on our JEOL SEM.

Aluminium Global Exhibition 2026

This week, from 6 to 8 October, the world’s largest international trade fair for the aluminium industry, Aluminium Global Exhibition 2026, took place. The fair is held every other year in Düsseldorf, Germany. There was a fair amount of Icelandic ingenuity on show this year. Dagur Ingi from Tæknisetur travelled to Düsseldorf on behalf of the Icelandic Aluminium Cluster (Álklasinn) to see the exhibition and follow the Icelandic companies presenting their solutions there. Icelandic innovation companies were not the only ones present. Icelanders working for Rio Tinto and Alcoa staffed large stands, and Norðurál sent a number of visitors.

Research Collaboration Across Borders

The REVEAL-Storage research project, run by Tæknisetur, Arctus Aluminium and other partners, is now in its final stretch. To mark the occasion, Daníel Þór Gunnarsson recorded an explainer video that gives insight into the project’s circular process, which you can watch below.

Forvitin Rauð at Hönnunarmars

Arctus Aluminium Receives Grant to Develop Carbon-Free Aluminium Production

Poster Prize for the REVEAL-STORAGE Project at ISEC 2026

Engineering Students Visit – Insight into Innovation and Research

The student association Vélin, visited IceTec and students gained insight into the latest technologies and research conducted by startup companies operating at IceTec.

Icelandic–Canadian Networking Event

Icelandic–Canadian Networking Event at Tæknisetur, Tuesday 17 February at 14:00

Álvit Wins Two Gold Medals

Last Wednesday Coffee of the Year at Tæknisetur – 3 December

IceTec 3D prints robotic arms from plastic for Santé

IceTec assisted Santé in increasing the load capacity of its robots that are used for processing orders and inventory handling. By switching from aluminium to a rigid and durable plastic, the weight of the robotic arms was reduced significantly, resulting in their increased load capacity.

University of Iceland Engineering Students Visit Taeknisetur

Second-year engineering students from the University of Iceland visited Taeknisetur on 03.11.2025 as part of their academic program to gain insight into advanced industrial and research practices. During the visit, the students were introduced to the Reveal Project and explored the center’s state-of-the-art research and development facilities.

Canada–Iceland Aluminium Collaboration Moves Forward with 2026 Visit

Following the successful Icelandic aluminium delegation visit to Québec in September 2025, we are pleased to confirm that a Canadian delegation will visit Iceland in spring 2026 to continue and strengthen the collaboration between our aluminium clusters.

BigRep VIIO 250 at Tæknisetur

Tæknisetur has put into operation a BigRep VIIO 250 3D printer at its facilities. This is a large-scale FDM plastic 3D printer with a build volume of 1 × 0.5 × 0.5 m. The printer is jointly owned by Tæknisetur, the University of Iceland, Reykjavík University, and the health technology company Ignas

The Presidential Couple Visit Tæknisetur

It was a festive occasion at Tæknisetur on March 24, when the presidential couple visited the facility and learned about its operations. They toured the specialized facilities and equipment operated by Tæknisetur and met representatives from many of the 32 companies currently based there.

Ignas and Tæknisetur Collaborate on Recycling 3D Printing Plastics

The health technology company Ignas and Tæknisetur are now collaborating in the field of recycling. Ignas is a startup developing hardware and software solutions to combat hospital-acquired infections. As part of their development work, large quantities of prototypes are 3D printed using white PLA (polylactic acid) plastic.

Netaprent at the European Young Entrepreneurs Competition

We are pleased to share that the startup Netaprent won the company workshop at the Vörumessan 2024 and therefore went on to compete in the European Young Entrepreneurs Competition this summer.

Recycled Fishing Nets at the 2024 Product Fair

Tæknisetur recently took part in an exciting project with four students from the Verzlunarskóli Íslands. The students came up with the idea of producing food clips from recycled fishing nets using 3D printing, under the name Netaprent.

Bambulab X1 Carbon at IceTec

We at IceTec are really excited about our new Bambulab X1 Carbon 3D printer from 3Dverk. The printer is one of the newest and best in its quality class and adds nicely to the 3D printing capabilities at IceTec

Angel Andrés Castro Ruiz at Tæknisetur received an incentive award from the University of Iceland

Metal 3D printer at IceTec

Last week, colleagues from the Greek company Anima arrived at Icetec. The purpose of the visit was installation and training on the iSLM160 metal 3D printer that IceTec along with the University of Iceland and the University of Reykjavík purchased with the help of Innviðasjóður.

We welcome Marea to IceTec

We are very happy to welcome the company Marea to our startup family at IceTec.

International workshop on tissue engineering

An international workshop on tissue engineering of bone and soft tissues took place at IceTec August 21.-25. 2022.

REVEAL meeting at IceTec

REVEAL meeting at IceTec. REVEAL is a new four year European R&D project to develop a long-term energy storage solution using aluminum. IceTec (Tæknisetur) will be coordinating the project involving Icelandic startup Arctus Aluminum and experts from Switzerland, Slovenia, Norway, Czech Rebuplic, Germany and the Netherlands. The European Comission (EC) and the Swiss authorities will be funding the project with about 3,7 million euros.

Registration: International Workshop on Bone and Soft Tissues Engineering

Registration: International Workshop on Bone and Soft Tissues Engineering

Rauan Meirbekova joins Tæknisetur

Rauan Meirbekova joins Tæknisetur

Visit from the Federation of Icelandic Industries

IceTec was proud to receive a visit from the Federation of Icelandic Industries this week.

Updates to our electron microscope

We're in the middle of updating our electron microscope

Visit from Iceland's Minister of Science, Industry and Innovation

IceTec was honored with a visit from Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, the Minister of Science, Industry and Innovation on Friday, 25 March 2022.

ANiMA's visit to IceTec

IceTec was honored to receive our Greek colleagues and 3D printer manufacturers ANiMA on 23 March 2022.

Askur 2022's grant recipients

Tech startups and their partners at Reykjavík University celebrated the fruit of their efforts at this year's Askur Grant Awards ceremony.

SÍP at IceTec

IceTec had the honor of hosting our colleagues from the Association of Icelandic Testing Laboratories.

profiBONE – visit from Czechia

Three Ph.D.-students from Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology and Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia, recently completed a short term research stay at IceTec.

MEET at IceTec

Following the World Geothermal Congress 2021, held at Harpa in Reykjavík, IceTec hosted the MEET project team for a three-day project meeting, from October 28th to 30th, 2021.

A welcome addition to the startup community at the Technology Center

Efnasmiðjan has recently joined the group of startups at the Technical Center. The owners of Efnasmiðjan are product designers Inga Kristín Guðlaugsdóttir and Elín Sigríður Harðardóttir, who have recently worked on and managed a project entitled