ERREKA
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Construction of the ProtoDUNE single-phase detector at CERN.
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EDB technology bolt: Bolt load measurement throughout the whole life cycle.
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Hot forged fasteners
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Pic legend 1: Construction of the ProtoDUNE single-phase detector at CERN.
Pic legend 2: EDB technology bolt: Bolt load measurement throughout the whole life cycle.
Pic legend 3: Hot forged fasteners

General information

  • Company name
    ERREKA
  • Adress
    B. Ibarreta SN, 20577, Antzuola, Gipuzkoa, España.
  • Turnover
    75.00 million EUR in year 2024
  • Employees
    500 in year 2024
  • SME
    NO
  • Contact Info:
    • Phone
      +34943786009
    • Email
      contact@erreka.com

Activity and Skills

ERREKA today is a leader supplier in advanced design, engineering and manufacturability for a range of industries, such as renewable energies, critical infrastructures, mining, aeronautics, automotive, health, access control, people mobility, among others. It has a diversified range of products and services, basing its diversification strategy on open innovation.

Erreka forms part of the MONDRAGON Corporation federation of worker cooperatives, the leading business group in the Basque Country. It has 6 production plants on 3 continents, and exports over 70% of its sales.

Erreka Smart Fastening business provides products and engineering services for the world of critical joints. Design, manufacture, installation and monitoring, everything under one roof, with more than 60 years of knowleage. Leader in quality, flexibility and technological know-how as a supplier of fastening products of high standard level, reliability and safety. Standard and special fasteners from M14 until M100.

Erreka´s vision as a supplier that goes beyond simply offering product solutions by developing the additional technological tools that optimise bolt life cycle from manufacturing, installation and service.

The use of EDB (Erreka Digital Bolt) load monitoring technology makes it possible to read and monitor the bolt load both during and after the assembly process, thus ensuring a reliable, fully optimised joint.

Contracts for Big Science facilities

[CERN - DUNE] DUNE project- Bolting supply and tightening strategy design for cryostat structure. (2023 - 2025)
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an international experiment for neutrino science. Discoveries over the past half-century have put neutrinos, the most abundant matter particles in the universe, in the spotlight for further research into several fundamental questions about the nature of matter and the evolution of the universe — questions that DUNE will seek to answer. DUNE will consist of two neutrino detectors placed in the world’s most intense neutrino beam. One detector will record particle interactions near the source of the beam, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. A second, much larger, detector will be installed more than a kilometer underground at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory in Lead, South Dakota — 1,300 kilometers downstream of the source. These detectors will enable scientists to search for new subatomic phenomena and potentially transform our understanding of neutrinos and their role in the universe.

Relevant R&D projects

[HORIZON EUROPE] ZDZW - Non-Destructive Inspection Services for Digitally Enhanced Zero Waste Manufacturing (ZDZW) (2022 - 2025)
ZDZW excels in offering a catalogue of IoT based non-destructive inspection technologies, providing an accurate inline evaluation of key product parameters that have an effect in quality requirements within different technical areas, such as: Part Integrity, Visual Requirements and Thermal Process efficiency. The ZDZW Inspection Solutions follow the concept of Inspection as a service, guaranteeing its cost effectiveness and improved return of investment, offering different types of subscription and pay-per-use models depending on the offered functionalities.
[HAZITEK] MEGAWIND (MEGAWIND) (2022 - 2024)
The main objective of the project is to improve the most widely used foundations with the greatest market potential, i.e. monopiles, integrating them with the new generation of large offshore wind turbines (+15 MW), developing innovations in the design and manufacture of the monopile itself, the transition piece and the joint system between the two.
[HAZITEK] HyShore (HyShore) (2021 - 2023)
The objective consists of the development of new technological solutions (materials, manufacturing processes, components and systems), for applications in the transport and logistics of Hydrogen generated in offshore wind farms, contemplating 2 ways: pipeline and naval.
[CDTI - R&D Projects] µBOLT (µBOLT) (2020 - 2022)
Development of a new line of highly reliable sensorised elements for high performance critical structures.
[CDTI - Integral projects] IMAI (IMAI) (2010 - 2012)
Critical condition resistant stainless steels for the energy sector.