Electronics at Cern
- Superspecialistic niches
- ll megaprogetto Iter
- The Mitica project
The Italy of high research and scientific and technological innovation – unknown to the general public because it does not produce food or fashion items but space devices, supercomputing infrastructures, medical patents – has been at the center of the project launched by the Ministry of Affairs since yesterday “The Italian innovation” to communicate to the world and enhance another face of Made in Italy through the network of embassies and consulates.
Electronics at Cern
Among the little-big protagonists of this lesser-known version of Italian excellence there is also the Bolognese Aretè & Cocchi Technologies, which with its solutions for power electronics is used to winning international competitions for the most important research laboratories. (such as CERN in Geneva) and was recently awarded the supply of modules to contribute to the world‘s largest clean energy project from nuclear fusion, Iter. The initiative launched yesterday by Maeci with all the Italian research institutes (Enea, Cnr, Infn, Asi, Inaf, Ocs) to push scientific diplomacy, was the occasion for Gino Cocchi to tell the latest successes of the young holding hi -tech he founded in 2010, who retired after 40 years of career in the symbolic industry of Italian gelato machines, Carpigiani.
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Superspecialistic niches
With one goal: to aggregate small global leading companies in super-specialized niches, employing young talents and challenging the frontiers of research (Cocchi is investing 12% of its revenues in R&D every year). ” automation of lighting systems for aeronautics up to supercapacitors) will invoice approximately 150 million euros in 2021, 90% of which are linked to international contracts, and is hiring over 130 people to reach 500 employees, a goal that had been set for 2020 but postponed due to Covid. 75% of the employees are technicians and engineers and half are under the age of 35.
The Megaproject Iter
“Thanks to our two jewels, the Bolognese subsidiary Ocem Power Electronics and the Swiss-German company Ampegon acquired two years ago and specialized in high-power radio transmission systems, we are playing a key role in the megaproject Iter, to bring to 150 million degrees the temperature of the plasma and thus allow the reaction of nuclear fusion, being able to use elements that are widespread in nature such as hydrogen and deuterium, without emissions and with zero impact on the environment – explains Cocchi -. We have just delivered to the Cadarache laboratories in France two power systems for the gyrotrons (a 14 million euro order) and we have six more to supply. It is not only a question of bringing very high-power energy into the reactor, but of controlling its modulation in thousandths of a second, so in addition to the power supplies we supply radio frequency amplifiers to create magnetic fields ».
The Mitica project
Also in France, Ocem has another 15 million euro supply for nuclear fusion, another 12 million from a contract for the “Mitica” project in the Padua laboratories, also under the Iter umbrella. And now the attention is turned to the 500 million euros of direct investments planned for the DTT (Divertor Tokomak Test), the superconducting reactor that is under construction in Frascati: Aretè & Cocchi Techonologie is in the front row to contribute with the power supplies for magnets superconductors and with plasma heating systems.