The Spanish company TINO Natural Stone has today received the award for the University of Cádiz (UCA), for his continuing research work on this appeal of nature. The jury of the First Edition of the Research Award from the University of Cadiz has been willing to approve TINO, the only company awarded for being "a good example of the enormous potential in R & D attainable through cooperation, working together and good understanding of University-Enterprise ".

The Rector of the University of Cádiz, Diego Sales, has given the award today at a ceremony TINO President, Antonio Valdes, who has said that "it is an honor to receive a boost from this university with which we worked so closely for over three years. TINO Natural Stone do a great scientific effort with the various universities in which we have joint working groups. And it gives us great satisfaction the recognition, in addition to the many benefits that innovation brings to our natural stone construction material.

Some prestigious awards to encourage research and innovation. The aim of these awards from the University of Cadiz to recognize the contributions of the winners to the improvement and promotion of research activity in this university and its sphere of influence. This recognition is part of the incentive policy and promote research, technological development and innovation launched in the UCA. In addition to the category of "Companies and institutions", which is awarded to TINO, the awards also recognize the work of research groups at UCA with a history of excellence in the category "Research Groups", and have also the category of "Scientific Contributions", in which he encouraged the work of researchers, awarding those who appear as authors of the best scientific contribution made during the two years preceding the year of the call.

Research to extend the life of the stone is a constant in TINO way, the stone is a material that falls from antiquity, the challenge for TINO is that its beauty and uniqueness remain for the passage of time. For this, the Spanish multinational invests significant resources in developing treatments to prevent the deterioration of the stone to the aggressions of the humidity, light, cold, etc.. TINO technology that is the stone in their development, allowing properties to remain virtually identical over many years, without dirt, dust, sun, or continued use by thousands of people, alter the original beauty of the stone.

The collaboration of the UCA and TINO produce tangible benefits in every product the University of Cadiz and TINO, in joint scientific work have developed in these studies as three years for example, entitled "Preventing the deterioration of salts in the sandstone Wenge" . Similarly, he examines how the water containing dissolved salts, penetrates into the rock by capillary action and spread through their pores. When the humidity decreases, the water will evaporate until the salt reaches a state of supersaturation, resulting in its crystallization in the pores of the rock. This damages the rock and makes it necessary TINO applies, as in each of its products, technological treatments best suited to resist the stone over the years as the first day.