Five projects committed to the green transformation of the steel and aluminum industry – COOPHS, CISMA, FlexCrash, SALEMA and ZEvRA – have been featured at Metal Madrid 2024, part of the Advanced Manufacturing Madrid exhibition. This fair has been held in Madrid, Spain, the 20th and 21st of November, 2024.
Dedicated project information was showcased as part of Eurecat’s booth at Metal Madrid 2024. Celebrating its 16th anniversary, MetalMadrid has provided a platform to highlight cutting-edge innovations aimed at advancing sustainability and decarbonization in the metal industry.
Visitors to Eurecat’s booth were introduced to the COOPHS project’s efforts in developing low-CO₂ steel production for the automotive sector. The project focuses on evaluating how eco-friendly processes affect the performance of high-strength Press Hardened Steels (PHS), essential for creating lightweight yet resilient automotive components.
Eurecat’s booth also included information on other projects aligned with the metal industry decarbonization, including the CISMA project, exploring the implications of recycling high-strength and high-formability automotive steels using Electric Arc Furnace technology, or FlexCrash, aiming at developing adaptive vehicle structures from high-strength green aluminum alloys.
Additionally, information about SALEMA project, focusing on creating low-critical-raw-materials’ aluminum alloys for diverse manufacturing processes and ZEvRA, developing an approach for manufacturing fully circular vehicles by improving recyclability across key materials.
Moreover, Eurecat distributed brochures of four other projects funded by the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) programme of the European Union: Sup3rForm, aiming at studying the optimisation of third generation and high resistance steels; NewAIMS, promoting new additive manufacturing processes of optimized high-performance steels; Steel4Fatigue, which creates new high-strength steels optimised for the automotive industry; and DURALINK, aiming at extending the life and competitiveness of the new generation of wind turbines for the offshore wind industry.
