Made in Steel is one of the most important events in the European steel sector, will take place in Milan, Italy, on May 14th-16th, 2019. The previous edition in 2017 gathered over 14,700 professionals from 74 countries. Next May, Sidenor will again participate in Made in Steel with its own stand (Hall 22, stand I11)....
The FATLEAF project, presented by Sidenor within the framework of the HAZITEK 2018 call, has finally been approved and awarded aid in the form of a grant amounting to 112,212.50 €. The FATLEAF project mainly aims at developing new steels for manufacturing springs for heavy vehicles with improved resistance and fatigue strength. The project...
For the second consecutive year, Sidenor will participate as a speaker at the Mineral Recycling Forum which will this time take place in Krakow on March 5-6, 2019. It is already the fourth edition of the event, organised by IMFORMED, which continues to develop as a reference encounter for actors involved in recycling and...
Leaded by Sidenor I+D, the European project INNOFAT (Innovative approach to improve fatigue performance of automotive components aiming at CO2 emissions reductions), faces the CO2 emissions reduction by means of the weight reduction of automotive components. This component downsizing is attained thanks to the improvement of its fatigue performance. The project is focused on forged...
IMMERSIA Data Visualization, which belongs to Innovae and benefits from its support and experience in terms of R&D, is a technological startup specialised in designing interactive virtual environments of high visual quality for data interpretation. In this context, the collaborative project which has arisen between the startup and Sidenor consists in the design and implementation...
From July 2017 to June 2020, the European collaborative project LEAFSLIM “Lightweight steel Leaf Springs with improved durability and reliability” is running focused on the development of a new generation of ultra-light leaf springs. The project is leaded by the special steelmaker SIDENOR I+D (E) and participated by the leaf spring maker Muelles y...
Within the framework of the Company's Digital Strategy towards SMARTFACTORY, the "Digital Twin" is taking shape. This is the development of a virtual model of the entire process, built on data and information obtained from the Company's various sensors and information systems. In order to reach this ambitious objective, the marking of our product...
The kickoff meeting of the ESSA project (“Blueprint “New Skills Agenda Steel”: Industry-driven sustainable European Steel Skills Agenda and Strategy”) took place on January 21st and 22d in Brussels . The project mainly aims at developing an action plan for defining an industry-driven sustainable European steel skills agenda, as well as setting up a strategy...
The European Commission has just launched the official communications on the research programmes which have been approved for funding within the framework of the call of proposals for 2018 of the RFCS programme and are due to start next June. The research programme is directly linked to the steel sector, with the regular participation of...
Sidenor’s collaboration with EHU/UPV has taken a further step. Within the framework of the master, Juanjo Laraudogoitia, head of Sidenor R&D, and Zuriñe Idoyaga, main product researcher, have been teaching key related training contents since November 2018. For each topic, the two-day sessions start with basic metallurgy knowledge, such as iron-carbon phase diagram or heat...
