BRUNO BALDASSARI & FRATELLI SPA

Their core work

Bruno Baldassari & Fratelli is an established Italian industrial company based in Capannori (Tuscany) that has been involved in all three phases of the EU Graphene Flagship, Europe's largest research initiative on graphene and 2D materials. Their participation indicates they bring industrial manufacturing expertise — likely in textiles or composite materials — to graphene application development. Within these massive consortia, they contribute as an end-user or industrial partner helping translate graphene research into real products, particularly through the 2D Experimental Pilot Line for scaling production.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In the early phase (2016-2018), the company entered the Graphene Flagship focusing broadly on graphene research across multiple application domains — composites, energy, electronics, photonics, sensors, and biomedical technologies. By the later phase (2020-2024), their focus narrowed significantly toward FET Flagship activities and specifically the 2D materials pilot line, signaling a shift from exploratory research participation toward manufacturing scale-up. This trajectory suggests the company moved from learning about graphene possibilities to actively preparing for industrial-scale production.

Moving from research exploration toward production-ready graphene manufacturing, positioning themselves as an industrial scale-up partner for 2D material technologies.

How they like to work

Bruno Baldassari operates exclusively as a participant, never leading projects — consistent with the role of an industrial end-user contributing manufacturing know-how to research-driven consortia. Their 250 unique partners across 24 countries reflect the massive scale of the Graphene Flagship rather than individually cultivated relationships. They are a loyal, long-term partner within one major initiative rather than a hub connecting diverse research networks.

Their network of 250 partners across 24 countries is almost entirely inherited from the Graphene Flagship consortium, one of the EU's largest research initiatives. This gives them broad European exposure but concentrated within the graphene and 2D materials community.

What sets them apart

As a private industrial company embedded in all three Graphene Flagship core phases plus the pilot line, Bruno Baldassari brings something rare: continuity. While many partners rotate in and out of flagship phases, this company stayed for the full journey from fundamental research to pilot manufacturing. For consortium builders working on graphene industrialization, they offer proven experience bridging academic graphene research and real-world manufacturing processes.

Highlights from their portfolio

• 2D-EPL
  The 2D Experimental Pilot Line represents their most industrially relevant project, focused on scaling graphene production from lab to factory — directly aligned with their apparent manufacturing role.
• GrapheneCore2
  Their largest funded involvement (EUR 100,000) covering the widest range of applications from energy to biomedical, suggesting this was their most active contribution phase.