Infrastructures

Located in the Agrifood City of Tudela, the Agro Innovation Seedbed is a space for the development of innovative projects (*) in the agrifood sector during their first years of life.

The Agrifood City, an initiative of the Government of Navarra to promote the agrifood sector, is a pioneering business park located in a strategic area of Navarra that shares infrastructures and technologies in a sustainable manner. With the objective of achieving energy efficiency of over 70% and major cost savings for companies, it puts the following at the disposal of the seedbed: its infrastructures, the trigeneration system (steam, cooling and electricity) and the distribution of energy services through an overhead rack.
 

Part of the Innovation Seedbed of CEIN,  it is managed by the European Centre of Companies and Innovation of Navarra (CEIN), an entity with over 20 years’ experience working for the Government of Navarra that assigns its resources to the development of SMEs and entrepreneurial projects in Navarra.

The CEIN Innovation Seedbeds are not only areas with affordable and fully equipped premises, each company involved is also assigned a ‘business tutor’ who offers advice on achieving growth in its project.

THE AGRO INNOVATION SEEDBEDS ARE DISTRIBUTED AS FOLLOWS:

• 7 industrial units of between 151 and 876 m2 (including offices and toilets) for industrial agrifood companies.
• 6 offices of between 16 and 21 m2 for innovative service companies that are specialised in the sector.
• Pilot plant, including:
  - Fully-equipped kitchen and materials
  - Equipped laboratory with general instruments
•   Meeting rooms
•   Training classrooms
•  Shared canteen
•   CEIN offices

Included: access control, fire-fighting and video surveillance systems, individual electricity and air conditioning systems (cool and heat).

All the units and offices are prepared for the immediate start-up of activities, except for the specific requirements arising from the nature of each business project.

Technical installations

Industrial units

• Electrical switchboard and lighting
• Hook up to the Infrastructure Operations Centre Services rack of the CAT (CO2, steam, glycol water and cold water)
• Sanitation of units with stainless steel piping and waste water collection tank, with a 10,000-litre settling tank
• Concrete walls
• Floors coated with epoxy resin
• Insulated ceilings with sandwich panels but without smoke vents (to be installed separately by each company depending on its needs)
• Air conditioning
• Changing rooms and toilets
   
  (Office space inside the units)

• Air conditioning: cool and heat
• Lighting
• Power points
• Voice and data connections, both wired and WiFi

Seedbed offices

• Electrical switchboard with own meters and several power points
• Lighting
• Air conditioning: cooling and heat
• Voice and data connections, both wired and WiFi

Pilot plant

Distributed in two different areas:

1. Equipped laboratory (80 m2) with general instruments: ph-metres, precision scales, mesh sieves, test samples, gas level meter…
2.  Kitchen (60m2) equipped with gas burners, ovens, refrigerator, tray lidder and kitchen materials for companies to carry out tests on their products.