Index continuously invests in research and development of systems and innovative products in its own laboratories in association with University Institutes and Italian and foreign Quality Control Institutes to supply the market with high-quality and long-lasting products. Research is what created INDEX and INDEX does indeed find its future in research. The Research and Development Centre continuously and constantly works at developing and optimising the products. This Centre employs technicians of various specialised skills who often use sophisticated instruments that are often an exclusive patent by Index. Thanks to its laboratories, INDEX is able to regularly test the performance of the products and invest many resources to develop and design new hi-tech, easy-to-use products. The innovation of production processes is also of prime importance and must go hand in hand with laboratory research.