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Metallic and Ceramic Materials

We investigate the relationship between microstructure and properties, as well as the optimisation of industrial processes.

Eurecat leads three European projects that are to invest €8 million in driving new high-strength steel components for the automotive and wind energy industries

2024-12-24T09:57:51+01:00October 31st, 2024|Energy, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is leading three European projects with a total budget of €8.2 million to drive new solutions for advanced high-strength steel components for designing lightweight vehicles in the automotive industry and larger, more resistant and cost-effective wind turbines for offshore wind energy. Specifically, the H2FORM3G European project, coordinated by Eurecat and [...]

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Novel lightweight materials to reduce weight of chassis components of Electric Vehicles by 40%

2024-02-08T14:16:09+01:00January 29th, 2024|Automotive, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

Researchers at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the technological centre Eurecat, proposed novel material solutions based on high-strength steels, composites and hybrid materials with the objective to reduce the weight of electric car chassis components by 40%. The research was conducted as part [...]

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Testing new 3D printing processes for high-performance steels

2024-01-17T12:31:54+01:00December 13th, 2023|Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European NewAIMS project which is to develop strategies and technologies to obtain cost-effective high-performance steel through metal 3D printing with a process which will integrate additive manufacturing with a custom-designed steel alloy. “NewAIMS seeks to combine a well-tailored steel chemical composition and a non-conventional time-temperature process for 3D printing,” [...]

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Eurecat leads three European projects to optimise steel components and decarbonise their manufacturing process

2023-12-15T12:12:55+01:00October 25th, 2023|Automotive, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is leading three European projects with a total budget of €6.9 million which optimise a range of steel qualities to improve its properties and uses in the automotive, aeronautics and other sectors while seeking to reduce defects, manufacturing costs and carbon dioxide emissions during manufacture to further decarbonise industry. The initiatives [...]

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New methodologies for designing and applying high-strength steels in the automotive and other industries

2023-10-26T13:53:48+02:00June 29th, 2023|Automotive, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

The Eurecat Manresa technology centre has today showcased innovative testing methodologies for the design and optimal application of high-performance metallic materials which are of particular interest in the automotive, transport and other industries and have been developed as part of the European ToughSteel, Crystal and MiPre projects. Solutions have been unveiled to assess and determine critical properties in this [...]

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European consortium to invest €4 million in developing safer, lighter and greener vehicle structures

2023-01-26T16:11:51+01:00January 25th, 2023|Automotive, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

The European Flexcrash project, funded with €4 million by the European Union under its Horizon Europe programme, is to develop flexible and hybrid manufacturing technology using high-strength green aluminium alloys to produce adaptive crash-tolerant vehicle structures. The project addresses the main challenges facing the automotive industry including compliance with greenhouse gas emission regulations and [...]

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New system enabling human-robot collaboration in industry rolled out

2023-05-18T14:24:07+02:00October 19th, 2022|Automotive, Autonomous and professional robotics, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

Barcelona has today hosted the closing event in the European Sharework project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, which has rolled out a new smart system for safe and ergonomic collaboration between robots and workers in industrial manufacturing processes by tapping artificial intelligence and process data analysis. The project has developed flexible software made up [...]

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Eurecat studies new nutritional strategies to prevent menopause symptoms

2023-05-18T14:26:14+02:00October 17th, 2022|Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre’s Reus-based Biotechnology Division is running a study with post-menopausal women to better shape future nutritional strategies which help to prevent menopause-associated symptoms and illnesses. The hormonal changes which take place at this stage lead to vulnerability to serious illnesses such as an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, cognitive impairment and [...]

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Key advances in the manufacture of sheet metal components to design safer electric vehicles presented in Barcelona

2022-10-17T14:44:18+02:00June 2nd, 2022|Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

The new requirements of electric mobility ‘are changing the way to design cars to resist collision’, and hot stamping technology for the manufacture of light sheet metal components with high mechanical performance ‘means that in the event of an accident, there’s no intrusion towards the passengers and the battery’, explained Daniel Casellas the Eurecat technology [...]

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Barcelona hosts the CHS2 conference, the leading international event on hot sheet metal forming of high-performance steel, with a prominent role in new mobility

2022-10-17T14:45:26+02:00May 30th, 2022|Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is organising, together with Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, the biannual CHS2 conference, the leading international event in hot stamping technology for the manufacture of lightweight sheet metal components with high mechanical performance, with special interest for industries such as automotive to reduce vehicle weight, in light of the challenges arising [...]

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