Basque precision casting SME specialising in nickel superalloys and digital optimisation of metal production processes.
Eibar Precision Casting is a Spanish SME specialising in investment casting — the manufacture of complex, high-precision metal components by pouring molten metal into ceramic moulds. Based in Eibar, in the Basque Country's long-standing precision manufacturing corridor, they have demonstrable capability in casting nickel superalloys, materials that must perform under extreme heat in aerospace and turbine environments. Beyond traditional casting, they have more recently engaged with digital technologies to optimise production performance and retrofit existing metal-industry processes with data-driven tools. For consortium builders, they represent a hands-on industrial partner that can turn research on advanced alloys or smart manufacturing into real workshop practice.
HiperTURB (2017–2020) focused specifically on developing investment casting processes for nickel superalloys with enhanced weldability, positioning them as a specialist in high-temperature aerospace-grade castings.
Both projects build on a core capability in precision metal processing — from superalloy casting to broader metal-industry production optimisation — consistent with the company's name and Basque manufacturing heritage.
INEVITABLE (2019–2023) introduced digitalization, decision support, and modelling tools into metal production, signalling an active push to apply Industry 4.0 methods to their existing manufacturing operations.
Participation in HiperTURB under the Clean Sky 2 Joint Technology Initiative places them within the European aerospace supply chain for engine and turbine components.
Their H2020 trajectory begins squarely in advanced materials and aerospace manufacturing: the HiperTURB project (2017–2020) was about improving the physical properties of cast nickel superalloys, with no digital dimension at all. By 2019 the focus shifted decisively toward digitalization, digital retrofitting, and data-driven decision support for the metal industry through INEVITABLE. This is a classic pattern for Basque manufacturing SMEs — strong traditional craft moving toward digital augmentation rather than replacing the core process.
They are on a path from pure craft-based precision casting toward digitally-instrumented manufacturing, making them a plausible partner for any project that needs an industrial testbed where new digital or materials technologies must prove themselves on actual shop-floor equipment.
They have participated exclusively as consortium partners — never as coordinator — across both projects, suggesting they contribute specific industrial expertise rather than driving project management. With 16 distinct partners across 6 countries from only 2 projects, their consortia are broad and diverse, which indicates comfort working in large multi-stakeholder projects. This profile points to a reliable specialist contributor: they bring manufacturing know-how and a real production environment, while leaving coordination overhead to research institutes or larger industry players.
Across two projects they have connected with 16 unique partners spread over 6 countries, a relatively wide reach for such a small portfolio. Their network spans the European aerospace supply chain (via Clean Sky 2) and the broader metal-industry digitalisation community, giving them contacts in both materials science and smart-manufacturing circles.
What sets them apart is the rare combination of deep physical expertise — actually casting nickel superalloys in a working foundry — with documented engagement in digital production optimisation. Most casting SMEs in Spain remain either purely traditional or purely software-adjacent; Eibar Precision Casting has hands in both. For a consortium that needs an industrial demonstrator where digital tools meet real high-temperature metal processes, they fill a gap that universities and large OEMs cannot.
