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15 February 2019RFCS LEAFSLIM Project: Lightweight Leaf Springs for the Oncoming EURO-6 Trucks
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 steel...
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29 January 2019Sidenor embarks on digital transformation towards smart factory, starting with the full traceability of its bars
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...
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23 January 2019Kick-off of the ESSA project (European Steel Skills Agenda) in Brussels
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 in...
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21 January 2019Sidenor maintains its leadership in the RFCS european projects
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......
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18 December 2018Sidenor R&D collaborates in the Master in Advanced Materials Engineering of the Basque Country University UPV/EHU
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, ...
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7 December 2018LION: Ionic liquids as an innovative solution for a sustainable economy in the Basque country
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’...
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19 November 2018Lightweight Forging: 1,000 Lightweighting Ideas and 217 kg of Lightweighting Potential
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 comp...
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13 November 2018Sidenor Attends the 34th Ferroalloys Conference
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 ...
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8 November 2018Sidenor is the first ISO 45001 – certified steel company in Spain
Sidenor has received the ISO 45001 certification; it is the first steel company, at national level, to have obtained this certification, which has been put into effect in 2018. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WHOLE TEAM – YOU HAVE MADE IT POSSIBLE! In order to achieve this,......
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2 November 2018Sidenor considers introducing the muon technology in its production process
* Together with Muon Systems, Sidenor is studying the possibility of implementing an innovative technical solution for material recognition, in order to look into the objects and surroundings needed in the steel activity without damaging, modifying or physically accessing the...