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...
Last September, a technical follow-up meeting of the project named “Líquidos Iónicos como solución innovadora para una ecOnomía sosteNible en Euskadi” (“Ionic liquids as an innovative solution for a sustainable economy in the Basque country”) took place in TECNALIA’s facilities. The project, with the acronym: LION, has a duration of two years and gathers...
Almost 1,000 lightweighting suggestions for the chassis, powertrain, transmission and drive-specific electronic parts of a hybrid passenger car as well as for a truck powertrain have been developed. That is the result of anunprecedented international initiative consisting of companies from the steel and forging industries. The collaborative ideas relate to lightweighting achieved through materials,...
Today, our colleagues José Cruz Zirión and Óscar Olariaga from the purchase department are attending the 34th International Ferroalloys Conference, the annual encounter organised by Metal Bulletin, which takes place in Portugal on November 11th –13th. The previous edition gathered more than 700 delegations, including over hundred steel companies from all over the world. A...