Since 1988 TPA has been a laboratory accredited (as published in Official Gazette n. 283 of 2/12/1988) by the Ministry for Universities and Scientific and Technological Research (MURST), and accordingly, able to offer customers the benefits obtainable under Art. 4 of L.46, which envisages government grants of up to 50% in respect of laboratory expenditure on research and design activities of innovative content.
     TPA provides the necessary consultancy during the steps of initiating the procedure and preparing the documentation, specifying the project and attaching the technical reports required by the examining bodies.
    Among the many projects to be accepted for funding in recent years, the following are worthy of note:

• Software for the management of multifunction wood machining centres
  
• Laser cutting and colour scanning of images on rotary plotters for screen-printing on silk
  
• Software for the management of panel processing machinery lines
  
• Software for the development of special coil-winding lines
  
  
  
• Software for the management of multifunction machining centres used to manufacture doors/windows
  
• Information system for the inspection of manufacturing defects using digital television cameras
  
• SW development of a dedicated CAD/CAM system for the manufacture of modular furniture.