AC²T is a private sector research facility active in interdisciplinary, pre-competitive research focused on the areas of lubricants and lubrication, functional surfaces, tribo-systems characterization, tribo-sensors and tribo-simulation.

The Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology, in short ACMIT, commenced operations as a Comet K1 competence center in April 2010 and is active in fundamental and application-oriented research in the field of medical technology. As a K1 center, the consortium will involve more than 40 national and international partners from science and industry in the planning and carrying out of its collaborative research projects.

In cooperation with clinical and medical partners, Biomedical Systems – a business unit of the Health & Environment Department of the Austrian Institute of Technology – offers research services for the health-care sector as well as the healthcare industry in order to create biomedical technologies and innovations for the industry.
Main areas of research are Cardiovascular & Biomedical Applications and HomeCare & Solutions.

Attophotonics main areas of activity include R&D and production in nanotechnology as well as in core fields of surface technologies. Using its proprietary technologies, it produces unique nano layers and nano colors without the use of pigments.

The Institute for Integrated Sensor Systems is devoted to basic, yet application-oriented research. Its objective is to investigate concepts and methodologies for smart sensors, their design, interconnection, and application. Research is concentrated on systemic aspects.

CEST is Austria‘s Competence Center for Electrochemical Surface Technologies. As a pioneer and hothouse for innovation, it acts as an interface between science and industry. Focus of scientific and technical activities at the CEST competence center is surfaces with specific, customized attributes produced using electrochemical methods.

Fotec is the research and service provider of the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt. Core competencies include injection molding, product development, test and measurement engineering, innovative software systems, rapid prototyping, and project management. Together with the Technikum Wiener Neustadt, Fotec also manages a well-equipped industrial research laboratory.

The NAKU company - the German acronym stands for "Natural Plastics, "or organic plastics - devotes itself to technologies utilizing natural renewable materials to produce plastics. By making these materials available to all its clients - small, medium - sized enterprises but not so large - NAKU Allows them to exploit these pioneering, environmentally -sound technologies for their own innovative projects.

The Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology (ofi) is a private testing and research in- stitute with operative sites in Vienna and Wiener Neu- stadt. As the largest cooperative research organization within the ACR (Austrian Cooperative Research), ofi sees itself as a service organisation for the European economy.