SAFE LOAD TESTING TECHNOLOGIES SL

Their core work

Safe Load Testing Technologies is a Spanish SME that designs and manufactures specialized laboratory equipment for testing how packaged goods behave during transport. Their systems simulate the real physical conditions a pallet or package endures in transit — vibration, drops, and impacts — allowing manufacturers and logistics companies to validate packaging before it reaches the market. They pursued EU funding specifically to develop what they describe as the leading European equipment platform for packaging transport testing, moving from concept validation to full product development between 2016 and 2019. Their practical value is in reducing packaging failure rates, product damage claims, and over-engineering waste in industrial and consumer goods supply chains.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their H2020 track follows a textbook SME Instrument progression: a Phase 1 feasibility study in 2016 to prove the concept of their transport testing platform, followed immediately by a Phase 2 development grant in 2017 to build the full commercial product. The early-period keywords — packaging optimization, safe transport, vibration, drop, impact, pallet — define the technical scope they validated. No distinct keyword shift appears between phases because both projects are part of a single product development arc, not a pivot; the absence of recent-period keywords simply reflects that Phase 2 was execution, not exploration.

They completed their EU-funded R&D arc in 2019 and are likely now a commercial-stage product company; future collaboration potential lies in standardization bodies, logistics sector pilots, or integrating sensor and data analytics capabilities into their testing platforms.

How they like to work

Safe Load Testing Technologies has acted exclusively as project coordinator across both H2020 grants, which is unusual for an SME and signals strong internal project management capability and confidence in leading EU-funded work. Both projects appear to have been executed with minimal or no external consortium partners, suggesting a self-contained R&D approach typical of product-focused SMEs developing proprietary equipment. A future partner should expect them to come in as the technical lead on their domain rather than as a supporting contributor.

The available data shows no recorded consortium partners or international collaborations — both projects were led by Safe Load as sole or primary entity. This suggests either a solo-execution model or that partner data was not captured, and does not indicate broad network ties within the H2020 ecosystem.

What sets them apart

Safe Load Testing Technologies occupies a narrow but commercially valuable niche: they build the actual physical testing machines that packaging engineers and logistics managers use to certify product safety in transit — a hardware-first position that most research organizations cannot replicate. Their claim, embedded in the Phase 2 project title, is to be the European leader in this equipment category, which if substantiated commercially means they bring both proprietary hardware and transport-testing methodology expertise that no generalist lab or university group offers. For a consortium needing credible transport packaging validation infrastructure, they are one of very few EU-based SMEs with dedicated product development history in this specific area.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TRANSAFELOAD (Phase 2)
  The largest grant (€974,540) and the full product development phase, positioning Safe Load as the builder of what they call the leading European packaging transport testing equipment platform.
• TRANSAFELOAD (Phase 1)
  Successful SME Instrument Phase 1 feasibility study that unlocked the Phase 2 grant — a validated proof-of-concept for the core testing technology.