Citius, altius, fortius. If the ITMA fair is often viewed as the Olympic Games motto of “Faster; Higher; Stronger” is just as true for the laboratory equipment and testing sector. They too, not only for production machinery, meet these high requirements. Daniel Palet, Dipl Eng, CTextATI, deputy manager of the Technical Innovation Centre (CTF) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Tech (UPC), took a walk through the companies to see who had new innovations, new developments and also testing improvements made to existing well know equipment.