Zlín University has completed the construction of the Polymer Systems Center

source: architekturazlin.cz

Zlín - Tomas Bata University (UTB) in Zlín has completed the construction of the Polymer Systems Center. Operational testing will now follow, interiors will be equipped, and instruments and devices will be relocated according to a special schedule, said Jana Brázdilová, a university representative, to ČTK today. The grand opening of the new research center is planned for spring next year.
    The university received subsidies amounting to 713 million crowns for the project located at Tomáš Bata Avenue in the center of Zlín, of which 85 percent were European subsidies, with the remainder covered by the state. The construction itself cost 340 million crowns.
    The new center will employ 120 researchers from both the Czech Republic and abroad. "Upon completion, UTB will gain suitable spaces that guarantee world-class standards for research on polymer materials and the use of the latest technologies," Brázdilová stated. Research on polymer materials has a long tradition in Zlín.
    "The center will be equipped with facilities that can be used to assess physical properties, material composition, and their surface properties. Furthermore, the center will have laboratories with pilot-scale processing equipment for processing plastics and can perform chemical and microbiological analyses of materials," its director Vladimír Pavlínek noted.
    In addition to basic research, the center wants to focus on collaboration with industrial partners. "Collaboration will be possible in the area of contract research, in solving joint research, development, innovation, and optimization of technological processes, or in the area of using modern instrumentation," Pavlínek added.
    The university also opened a new laboratory center for the Faculty of Technology this year, which is the oldest university faculty. The building in the complex of former Baťa factories, located in close proximity to the faculty headquarters, cost 532 million crowns, with 443 million crowns coming from European subsidies. Zlín University has about 12,000 students this year.

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