Empa
Empa – the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research – is a research institute for materials science and technology. It can trace its roots back to 1880 but only took on its research role in 1988.
It is part of the domain of the two federal institutes of technology (Zurich and Lausanne) and works with industry and public institutions.
Empa employs about 800 people at its three locations in Dübendorf, St Gallen and Thun.
Two-thirds of Empa’s annual budget of more than SFr116 million comes from public coffers.
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