ALBA is a facility co-financed by the Spanish government and the Catalan government. It is a new generation of synchrotron. ALBA is a circular-shaped machine, called a synchrotron, that uses arrays of magnets, called insertion devices to generate bright beams of synchrotron light. ALBA is situated in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near Barcelona, a welcoming, plural and diverse city, a city to live and share. Around the machine there are a collection of experimental research laboratories, called beamlines. At each beamline, scientists independantly use the light generated by the machine for a wide variety of experiments. The ALBA team currently consists of 60 dedicated engineers, scientists, support staff and technicians. Eventually ALBA will grow to more than 100 staff and will welcome scientific users from all over the world. GTD has a long experience in automation of high energy laboratories. GTD has been strongly involved in Syncrotron of Grenoble “ESRF”, as well as during many years in CERN Geneva (all the accelerators over this site: PS , SPS, LEP and LHC. It has been a very good opportunity for GTD to win this contract taking into account its experience, as well as the fact that this new facility is located in Barcelona (where the headquarter of GTD is). The contract has been awarded to AXIMA as prime contractor , and GTD will deliver the Control & Command system for the all project of AXIMA.
