UAB NOVA FABRICA

Their core work

UAB Nova Fabrica is a Lithuanian technology SME focused on developing industrial equipment and measurement systems for precision manufacturing environments. Their work spans two distinct but complementary domains: autonomous large-area sputtering systems for thin-film deposition in mass production settings, and wide-range process gas analysis instrumentation under their INTELEG® brand. Both tracks point to a company that builds or commercializes capital equipment and sensing technology for industrial process environments. They operate as a product developer rather than a research group, using EU Phase 1 feasibility grants to assess market readiness for their proprietary technologies.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Nova Fabrica's two H2020 projects show a visible shift from production equipment to measurement instrumentation between 2016 and 2019. Their early focus was on automating large-scale thin-film deposition machinery — a hardware-heavy, capital equipment domain. By 2019, they were pursuing a gas analysis sensing product under a registered trademark, suggesting they moved toward higher-margin, sensor-based product development. Both areas are adjacent to semiconductor, solar, and precision manufacturing, but the direction of travel points toward analytical instrumentation as the company's growth vector.

Nova Fabrica appears to be evolving from custom manufacturing equipment toward a branded sensor product (INTELEG®), which suggests future collaboration opportunities are more likely in industrial measurement, process control, or smart manufacturing rather than equipment fabrication.

How they like to work

Nova Fabrica has participated exclusively as a sole coordinator under SME Instrument Phase 1, which by design does not require consortium partners — both projects show zero unique partners. This is not unusual for Phase 1 feasibility grants, but it means there is no track record of consortium collaboration to assess. Working with them would likely mean engaging them as a technology provider or specialist rather than as an experienced consortium orchestrator in multi-partner projects.

Nova Fabrica has no recorded consortium partners across their two H2020 projects, reflecting the solo-application nature of SME Instrument Phase 1 grants. Their collaboration footprint is effectively local — no cross-border partnerships are evident from the available data.

What sets them apart

Nova Fabrica stands out as one of very few Lithuanian SMEs to have won two SME Instrument Phase 1 grants as sole coordinator, suggesting a credible internal capacity for EU proposal writing and product commercialization planning. Their dual focus — thin-film deposition equipment and branded gas analysis instrumentation — positions them at the intersection of precision manufacturing and process sensing, a niche combination rarely held by a single small company. The existence of a registered INTELEG® trademark signals they are building a product business, not just offering services.

Highlights from their portfolio

• INTELEG S HF
  Built around a trademarked product (INTELEG®), this project is the clearest signal that Nova Fabrica is a product company with proprietary IP in wide-pressure-range gas analysis — making them a potential technology licensor or OEM partner.
• OUTERMOST
  Targeting autonomous mass production sputtering — a technically demanding domain used in semiconductors, solar panels, and optical coatings — this project shows ambition well beyond typical SME scope.