Measuring external noise emissions and assessment of results. The CTCR offers a service of external noise emissions and assessment, to specialized companies in the footwear sector and those related to it.
The goal when measuring noise emissions is to determine whether the levels of noise are adjusted to the limits recommended by the relevant legislations; by the local authorities (reflected in the rules against noise pollution), the regional or national regulations regarding acoustic protection and the international standard UNE-EN ISO.
The regulation related to the environmental quality ( ISO 140001, EMAS...) forces companies to periodically perform noise measurements in specific sensitive points. This is required in order to obtain or renew environmental accreditations.
Apart from this regulation, we should also take into consideration:
At a European level:
- Directive 2002/49/CE by the European Parliament and the European Council, from 25th of June, 2002 regarding the evaluation and management of environmental noise (The Directive regarding the environmental noise)
At a national level:
- Law 37/2003,from 27th November regarding noise
- Royal Decree 1367/2007, 19th October, through which the Law 37/2003 about noise was developed 17th November and refers to acoustic areas, quality goals and noise emissions.
At a local level:
- Municipal ordinance for protection of the environment against noise emissions and vibrations in the town of Logroño
- Municipal ordinance for the protection of the environment against noise emissions and vibrations in Arnedo.
- Municipal ordinance for the protection of the environment against noise emissions and vibrations in Calahorra.
- Municipal ordinance for the protection of the environment against noise emissions and vibrations in Quel.
- Etc...
The CTCR produces reports on external noise further to noise measurements and provides a service to companies for which some corrective actions are required to prevent productivity from affecting the environment.
City planning and the development of infrastructure in the area are taken into account while performing noise measurements for a company. This is due to the fact that the environmental impact could be higher in the surroundings than in the company itself, provoking a breach of the regulation due to causes not related to the premises.
It is important to perform noise measurements to check the exhaustive fulfillment of the regulations, as more and more importance is being given by local councils to the protection of the environment. Inspections can be performed to check noise emissions, with the imposition of a fine up to €300.000 and a temporary or permanent closure of the premises.
The CTCR checks noise emissions; controlling that they are not over legal limits and also ensures:
- The good health of the population, as it is an aspect of public interest awarded by the State
- Everybody's right to a healthy and balanced environment
- Everybody's duties to contribute to the promotion and maintenance of the natural and artificial environment, allowing the fulfillment of the vital needs, and the good health, of the population
The CTCR has a team of experts with the necessary technical resources to perform the acoustic measurements and ensure companies' compliance with then legal limits.
Should you desire to obtain more detailed information, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Responsible for the Department of Environment and Prevention of Labor Risks.
Thanks to the initiatives by the CTCR in collaboration with the regional government of La Rioja and the Center of Global Design of La Rioja (CEDIR), footwear companies and those related to the sector will be able to access in real time the latest trends in the fashion sector.
The CTCR provides the department of Fashion with an innovative tool of unique productivity and creativity; editing teams with more than 150 experts around the world that cover trend analysis, offer resources to the fashion industry and reports about selling points in the main fashion capitals such as Paris, Milan, New York, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, Sao Paolo, etc...
The multidisciplinary team also assists various other departments with relevant information: design, procurement, marketing, retail and executives:
- 2 years in advance: macro trends, innovations, consumer behavior
- 1 year in advance: trend analysis, product projection, graphics, shows, different targets: children, youth and adults
- 3 to 6 months: the following season, confirmations and updates
- Real time: procurement, fashion trends in the main cities, travels, art exhibitions, retail, visual merchandising, worldwide catwalks with zoom tool and downloadable photos in high resolution, etc...
- 10 year archiving: documentaries and photos in high resolution
Furthermore, the CTCR enables companies from the sector to formulate long term strategies and react rapidly to changes in the market, to identify opportunities to grow, to follow up news and innovations in the industry, to increase productivity and avoid costly errors.
Any company interested in applying for information on this service, can contact with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The CTCR is firmly committed to principles of corporate social responsibility. As such, the CTCR is dedicated to the interests of society in general and in particular its various stakeholders. This fact invokes consideration of the impact of the CTCR's actions on clients, employees, companies...regarding social, environmental and economic aspects. One of the contributions by the CTCR in this field is the elaboration of a Sustainability Report. This challenge forms part of the strategic guidelines of CTCR whose development of such documents has been awarded on an international level by the most relevant international institution: the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
The CTCR Sustainability Report 2010 has been recognized for the compliance with the requirements in the level of application B. This commitment entails a responsibility to create a totally renewed report every two years. The distinction received for the first Sustainability Report in 2010 makes the CTCR the first Technological Center in Spain with these characteristics to obtain the above international reference further to validation by the GRI.
In the following link you can download the Sustainability Report 2010 by the CTCR:
The main goal for this new line of development is to test new materials from a nanotechnology point of view and apply them in the components used in the footwear industry. We can then easily obtain new or better properties, which could increase competitiveness for the regional footwear industry through a clear technological differentiation of their products.
The main goals from this action are:
- Identification of the possible applications of nanotechnology in the footwear industry.
- Analysis of plan feasibility
- Development of internal industrial research projects
- Punctual projects to respond to the specific needs of a company through nanotechnology procedures and development.
Throughout 2009, the CTCR launched a new line of investigation on nanotechnology; incorporated a product line manager, a technician of analysis and control and, in 2010, an expert in chemistry. In order to give them a suitable environment, the CTCR restructured its laboratories.
Nanotechnology is the action field of applied sciences, dedicated to the control and manipulation of matter on a scale between 1 and 100 nanometers, that is, at atomic and molecular levels.
The progress in this field in the last years is due to the interest provoked by the unusual properties found in these materials, far different from other types of known materials. These properties depend on the size and shape of the specific nano-particles: the smaller their size, the wider their surface area and their reactivity. Consequently, the smaller quantity of material, the better the results obtained. Furthermore, mass at a small scale is dominated by the so called 'quantum effect', which provokes the apparition of new properties, unknown until now, in the materials we normally use. As a result, nanotechnology allows us to create products with new properties with a commercial interest.
At present, the CTCR is working on various investigation projects to develop new materials, and manufacture footwear with new properties; especially in safety footwear.
Also, it is working individually with various companies on the development of specific solutions adapted to their particular needs.
Should you be interested in how nanotechnology can optimize the functionality of your products, you can request a meeting with the manager at the department, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The CTCR releases this new service about the calculation of the carbon footprint and provides companies with the necessary tools proposed in the UNE-EN ISO 14040:2006 (Environmental management. Life cycle Analysis. Principles and scope of reference)
The objective of calculating the carbon footprint is to obtain the global quantity of the GEI emission throughout the life cycle of a product. The ecologic footprint is an indicator of sustainability measuring the impact generated by a population (expressed in hectares of ecosystem or nature) and employed by the companies and organizations. It is called corporate ecologic footprint.
It is necessary to reduce global GEI emissions to attain a slowing down of global warming. This is the main goal expressed in the Kyoto Protocol; a worldwide agreement from 1997. Having come into force in 2005, the protocol establishes a reduction of global GEI emissions for year 2012 of 8% in comparison with figures in 1990. The main entities that regulate and/or fight against global warming are:
- The Kyoto Protocol
- Emissions trade: European Directive 2003/87/CE and Law 1/2005
- National Plan of Assignation of Emissions (R.D. 1866/2004 and R.D. 60/2005)
- Strategy of energy saving and efficiency
- Plan of Public Works about renewable energies
- Mechanisms of clean development and joint intervention
The CTCR has been working for the last 2 years on environmental improvements and deeply believes that, should companies integrate the eco-efficiency concept into their organization, they would automatically improve their global profits and consolidate their results with investments in new markets and new capital. If we want to take action, we need to firstly calculate our rate of sustainability and make it progressively better until we become totally sustainable.
The CTCR launches the carbon footprint service to make all companies aware of their impact on the environment and commit them to taking action and to using this indicator to become totally sustainable.
The CTCR counts on a professional tool, the software Simapro 7.3 that allows it to perform a life cycle analysis (LCA) and evaluate the environmental impacts of products, processes and services through the usage of databases from an internal stock list (created by the user) and bibliographic lists (BUWAL, IDEMAT, ETH, IVAM, etc). Simparo allows the life cycle analysis of a product or a service in a systematic and transparent way, through the analysis and graphic representation of the complex cycles according to the recommendations of ISO 14040. Anticipating the compliance with new regulations allows companies to move forward with product competitiveness, a more solid efficiency and more attractive products in the market. The CTCR uses various professional and technical means to successfully develop the carbon footprint and promptly get a sustainable development for our planet.
HOW TO KNOW THE CARBON FOOTPRINT
Why not anticipate regulations and take action as soon as possible? Why wait for it to be too late? Thanks to this service, companies can know their carbon footprint and create the necessary international standards, establish an entrepreneurial strategy of sustainability, and discover the opportunities and the risks related to the carbon footprint of products and services of the company.
Due to the fact that CTCR has happened to turn into tools of key work into any process of business and into any professional or managerial activity, the Technological Center of the Footwear of La Rioja, it relies on TIC's's specific department that it covers the needs raised by the company, in general, and for the sector, especially. The development and constant change that takes place in this area, supposes speaking about an area that has turned in indispensably for the work that is realized in this Technological Center.
As result of his constant activity, it is born PhotoShot360º, a technology key to increase the competitiveness of the companies, to add value and differentiation and to incorporate the development and the technological innovation in the product. PhotoShot360 º is the new technological, only solution in the world and developed by the Technological Center of the Footwear of La Rioja, which allows to recreate three-dimensional virtual simulations of physical royal objects, from the automated capture of photographies and his accused by computer. This technology, sole right of the CTCR, processes the images and assembles them coherent generating a sight in 3D of the initial product.
As result of his constant activity, it is born PhotoShot360 º, a technology key to increase the competitiveness of the companies, to add value and differentiation and to incorporate the development and the technological innovation in the product. PhotoShot360 º is the new technological, only solution in the world and developed by the Technological Center of the Footwear of La Rioja, which allows to recreate three-dimensional virtual simulations of physical royal objects, from the automated capture of photographies and his accused by computer. This technology, sole right of the CTCR, processes the images and assembles them coherent generating a sight in 3D of the initial product.
Between others, the principal advantages that it offers are:
- I access to virtual environments with designed products artesanalmente.
- Decrease of the time of shaped in 3D.
- Cost saving in the processes of electronic commerce E-commerce.
- Increase of the added value of the product and of the brand.
- Improvement of the position of brand in the virtual environments.
- Automation of the process of capture of images.
- Improvement of the visual perception of the product.
The innovative technological formula, PhotoShot360 º, acquires special importance when the resultant photographies that it generates are applied to View360. Both, they contribute a new dimension to the process of interaction between the user and the generated images.
View360 is the application that complements the last link of PhotoShot360 º and that it allows to visualize the three-dimensional models generated by this innovative photographic equipment. This application that contributes specific functionalities in web environments and also in mobile devices, tries to go beyond the material thing.
--- It is allowed that the already visualized models could return to meet again across a record.
--- He has a reader of codes integrated QR who allows to accede directly to a model or catalogue from, for example, an advertising support in paper.
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Debido a que han pasado a convertirse en herramientas de trabajo clave en todo proceso de negocio y en cualquier actividad profesional o empresarial, el Centro Tecnológico del Calzado de La Rioja, CTCR, cuenta con un departamento específico de TIC´s que cubre las necesidades planteadas por la sociedad, en general, y por el sector, en particular. El desarrollo y cambio constante que se produce en este ámbito, supone hablar de un área que se ha convertido en indispensable para el trabajo que se realiza en este Centro Tecnológico.
PHOTOSHOT360º Ver vídeo
Como resultado de su constante actividad, nace PhotoShot360º, una tecnología clave para incrementar la competitividad de las empresas, añadir valor y diferenciación e incorporar el desarrollo y la innovación tecnológica en el producto.
PhotoShot360º es una novedosa solución tecnológica, única en el mundo y desarrollada por el Centro Tecnológico del Calzado de La Rioja, que permite recrear simulaciones tridimensionales virtuales de objetos físicos reales, a partir de la toma automatizada de fotografías y su procesado por ordenador. Esta tecnología, exclusiva del CTCR, procesa las imágenes y las ensambla coherentemente generando una vista en 3D del producto inicial.
Entre otras, las principales ventajas que ofrece son:
A continuación, se muestran los tipos de visualizaciones de producto que se pueden generar:
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-Básica: permite obtener una vista del producto desde un único nivel, girando alrededor de su propio eje. | ![]() |
-180º: genera la visualización de la mitad superior del producto. |
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-360º: ofrece una representación completa del producto desde todos sus ángulos y en cualquier dirección. |
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En la siguiente imagen se muestra un ejemplo del visualizado en 360° de un producto cualquiera, como puede ser un zapato, donde se observa la toma automatizada de fotografías realizada por el software específico de PhotoShot360°.
VIEW360
La innovadora fórmula tecnológica, PhotoShot360º, adquiere especial importancia cuando las fotografías resultantes que genera son aplicadas a View360. Ambas, aportan una nueva dimensión al proceso de interacción entre el usuario y las imágenes generadas.
View360 es la aplicación que complementa el último eslabón de PhotoShot360º y que permite visualizar los modelos tridimensionales generados por este innovador equipo fotográfico. Esta aplicación que aporta funcionalidades específicas en entornos web y también en dispositivos móviles, pretende ir más allá de lo material.
View360 permite ser configurada en todos sus aspectos: el tamaño y la imagen de la ventana de visualización, la apariencia estática o animada del modelo, el zoom inicial mínimo y máximo, la ficha técnica del modelo o incluso cualquier otro tipo de información que se necesite mostrar. Gracias a la utilización de tecnología Java, se puede visualizar en la casi totalidad de navegadores web, consiguiendo ser más accesible por los usuarios.
View360 para móviles se diferencia fundamentalmente por dos rasgos que le otorgan distinción respecto a su uso en entornos web:
- Permite que los modelos ya visualizados se puedan volver a ver de nuevo a través de un historial.
- Dispone de un lector de códigos QR integrado que permite acceder directamente a un modelo o catálogo desde, por ejemplo, un soporte publicitario en papel.
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En resumen, esta nueva forma de visualizar modelos tridimensionales basados en fotografías de objetos reales, supone hablar de realidad aumentada. El impacto que puede ofrecer un catálogo o un anuncio de una empresa en un soporte papel puede ser mucho mayor si se acompaña de un modelo virtual por realidad aumentada. Todas las soluciones actuales de realidad aumentada pasan por que el modelo virtual exista en 3 dimensiones y ofrezca la calidad de imagen y fidelidad al producto adecuada para su venta online.
Actualmente, la implantación de herramientas 3D de diseño es muy escasa, lo que dificulta a las empresas entrar en los sistemas existentes de realidad aumentada. En sectores tecnológicos, con un departamento de ingeniería para el diseño, estos dibujos CAD 3D se utilizan para desarrollar el producto y son necesarios de por sí. Pero otros casos, donde el desarrollo de nuevos productos se hace de forma artesanal, los dibujos en CAD 3D no son necesarios, con lo que habría que realizarlos sólo para su publicación, lo que no justifica el coste de realizarlo. Es por todo lo anterior, por lo que el CTCR ofrece esta solución alternativa a las empresas para tener modelos tridimensionales virtuales sin la necesidad de dibujos en CAD 3D que resultan costosos en tiempo y dinero.
La tecnología necesaria para crear modelos tridimensionales basados en fotografías está siendo desarrollada en el CTCR dentro del proyecto "Sistema de creación de catálogos virtuales en 3D".
El Centro Tecnológico del Calzado de La Rioja apuesta firmemente por la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, comprometiéndose con la sociedad en general y con todos los grupos de interés en particular. Ello implica la consideración por parte del CTCR del impacto social, ambiental y económico que sus actividades generan sobre sus:
La elaboración de la Memoria de Sostenibilidad 2010 es un claro ejemplo de su contribución en este ámbito. Un reto que forma parte de la línea estratégica del CTCR en materia de RSC y que le ha merecido el reconocimiento por parte de la iniciativa más extendida a nivel internacional para la elaboración de este tipo de documentos, el Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), que ha considerado el cumplimiento de los requisitos exigidos en el nivel de aplicación B. Este impulso supone, además, la responsabilidad de elaborar de manera bienal una memoria cien por cien renovada.
La distinción concedida a su primera Memoria de Sostenibilidad convierte al CTCR en el primer Centro Tecnológico español de estas características en obtener el citado reconocimiento tras el chequeo de la misma por el GRI. Así, el CTCR mantiene su compromismo de ser un ejemplo a seguir para el sector empresarial con el objetivo de asesor, ofrecer pautas y recomendaciones sobre cómo aplicar la RSC en cualquier entidad.
En el siguiente documento puede descargarse la Memoria de Sostenibilidad 2010 del CTCR.
La aplicación de la nanotecnología en el sector del calzado permitirá renovar la industria del calzado tal y como se conoce a día de hoy, innovando no sólo en el diseño y ergonomía, sino empleando estos nuevos materiales de mejores prestaciones para atender a las crecientes necesidades del consumidor.
La nanotecnología permite obtener grandes ventajas en la industria del calzado, con el desarrollo de productos con propiedades novedosas, de alto valor añadido. Las aplicaciones en la industria del calzado son muy diversas y van, desde la mejora de las propiedades de los materiales que conforman el calzado, hasta el diseño de "calzado a la carta".
Algunos ejemplos de aplicaciones que se pueden conseguir en el sector del calzado son:
El CTCR está trabajando actualmente en varios proyectos de investigación para desarrollar materiales que permitan fabricar calzado con nuevas propiedades, principalmente en el campo del calzado de seguridad. Además, se está trabajando a nivel individual con varias empresas en el desarrollo de soluciones particulares adaptadas a sus necesidades.
Si quiere saber como puede ayudarle la nanotecnología a dotar sus productos de funcionalidades nuevas o mejoradas, puede concertar una reunión con el responsable de área, Jorge García, a través de la dirección This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. o el teléfono 941 385 870.
El CTCR pone de manifiesto su compromiso con el medio ambiente a través del servicio de Cálculo de Huella de Carbono, con el que ofrece a las empresas las herramientas necesarias para la correcta aplicación de la norma UNE-EN ISO 14040:2006. Gestión Ambiental. Análisis del ciclo de vida. Principios y marco de referencia.
Consciente de que las empresas pueden ganar más a través de la ecoeficiencia así como mejorar sus cuentas de resultados invirtiendo en los nuevos mercados y nuevos capitales, el CTCR lleva dos años trabajando con este servicio en pro de la mejora ambiental. Y es que, si queremos actuar, lo primero que hay que hacer es calcular cuánta sostenibilidad tenemos e ir mejorándola progresivamente hasta alcanzar la sostenibilidad total.
Esta entidad ha conseguido a lo largo de estos años que las empresas se conciencien con el medio ambiente y sean capaces de conseguir a través de este indicador, la sostenibilidad total. Para ello, cuenta con la herramienta profesional de Software Simapro 7.3, que permite realizar Análisis de Ciclo de Vida (ACV) y evaluar los impactos ambientales de productos, procesos y servicios mediante el uso de bases de datos de inventario propias (creadas por el usuario) y bibliográficas (BUWAL, IDEMAT, ETH, IVAM, etc.). Simapro permite modelar y analizar el ciclo de vida de un producto o servicio de una manera sistemática y transparente mediante el análisis y la representación gráfica de ciclos complejos siguiendo las recomendaciones de la norma ISO 14040.
El anticiparse a nuevas regulaciones permite avanzar en la competitividad de los productos, mejorar su eficiencia y tener productos más atractivos para el mercado. Para ello, CTCR cuenta con todos los medios, tanto técnicos como profesionales, para desarrollar con éxito la huella de carbono y poder conseguir cuanto antes un desarrollo sostenible total de nuestro planeta.
Beneficios de implantar la Huella de Carbono en las empresas:
¿Por qué no adelantarse a la legislación y actuar cuanto antes? ¿por qué esperar a que sea demasiado tarde? Con este nuevo servicio todas las empresas pueden conocer su huella de carbono y así crear los estándares internacionales necesarios, establecer una estrategia empresarial de sostenibilidad en relación a la huella de carbono y conocer las oportunidades y riesgos relacionados con la huella de productos y servicios en la empresa.
Los interesados en recibir un servicio de estas características pueden contactar con la Directora de Calidad, Medio Ambiente y PRL, Marta Calvo, en el teléfono 941 385 870 o a través del correo electrónico This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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