PRESS REPORT
2014 Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium
The first Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium was successfully held from the 5th to 7th of October 2014 at the Hilton Hotel in Duesseldorf, Germany.
The technical Sessions were the core of the Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium, organized by AluMag Automotive GmbH. Around 100 international executives had registered as delegates to the symposium, which was accompanied by a small but appealing exhibition featuring representatives from the cast and forging industry. Theme of the Symposium was Procurement of lightweight materials and their advanced processes in accompany with cost balance or reduction.
A total of 13 presentations were made, spread over two days, on 6th to 7 th of October. Authors were from Austria, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico and USA with representatives from the whole supply chain.
In the welcome and opening greeting by Mr. Jost Gaertner, Managing Partner at AluMag, the lightweight battle between aluminium, magnesium, composites and high strength steel has been pointed out. The speaker list on the first day included Mr. Thomas Heuer, Head of Technology Development [in behalf of Arne Lakeit] at Audi who made the opening keynote. His lecture was focused on New Materials and Advanced Processes, flanked by modular systems and challenging joining technologies.
Other topics covered on the first day were Lightweight market trends and outlook in China & worldwide, International foundry challenges, Development of PCM, Lightweight technology selection based on a material and process benchmark and Lightweight design Challenges in development process by Dr. Markus Hermle, Manager CAE at Daimler.
Dr. Achim Agostini, Head of Division Lightweight Solutions at ThyssenKrupp System Engineering made the closing keynote of the first day with the topic Process & Equipment parts production for aluminium magnesium composites steel hybrid material. An evening reception at the Hilton Hotel ended the first informative day of the Symposium.
The high standard of the lectures continued the second day with presentations by Dr. Wolfgang Zitz Vice President at Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik and Dr. Claudio Mus, President at Rheinfelden Alloys among others.
Topics covered during the second day were Site selection in Mexico, Cost comparison of different lightweight materials, Lightweight body solutions, Competitive development based on lightweight & cost balance & Design approach & process Methodologies: How to improve aluminium alloys advantages in high performance components.
All the symposium sessions were interactive, with the speakers and delegates participating in the question & answer sessions.
A reception party at the VIP lounge of the Aluminium 2014 Exhibition marked the end of the first Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium. Backed by positive feedback from many of the delegates and speakers, AluMag Automotive supported by Reed Exhibition of China and Antaike is now planning the next Symposium to be held from the 6th to 8th of July 2015 at the Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel in Shanghai, China.
Download Symposium Presentations: http://www.alumag.cc/europe-2014-symposium/Register for the 2015 Shanghai Symposium: http://www.alumag.cc/asia-2015-symposium/
For further question / needs / discussion, please contact:
Mr Jost GAERTNER
AluMag Automotive GmbHKirchplatz 1a / Alte ApothekeD-58706 Menden (Germany)Tel.: +49 2373 929492Cell: +49 172 [email protected]
