Materials in Car Body Engineering 2023
May 9 at 8:00 am | May 10 at 5:00 pm UTC+0
Materials in Car Body Engineering
The next big thing
Achieving climate neutrality, and more general, sustainability in their supply chain and production clearly has become a predominant goal in the automotive industry – the “next big thing” OEM are addressing with full force. On the route towards this goal, car body materials naturally are at the center of attention: Reducing the cradle-to-gate CO2e-footprint of primary sourced materials (steels, aluminum, magnesium, plastics) is urgently requested – but equally or even more important is the notion of regarding secondary, recycled materials as valuable and necessary sources that need to be adopted – without compromising high demands on material performance, durability, formability, joinability and lightweight. Increasingly, demands also concern responsible sourcing and globally secured availability of materials – while the need for cost efficiency in car body development persists.
Sustainable, economic, high-performing material solutions and material concepts therefore are being called for – and latest developments will be discussed again during the 2023 edition of Automotive Circle’s international conference on Materials in Car Body Engineering in Bad Nauheim (Germany) on May 9-10, 2023.
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Conference Agenda
| 08:40 am |
Welcome and conference introduction |
Dr. Dirk Meine, Automotive Circle, DE |
ROUTES TO SUSTAINABILITY
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| 09:00 am |
Jaguar Land Rover journey to Net Zero
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Anthony Riley, Jaguar Land Rover Ltd., UK |
| 09:30 am |
Durability as key to reusable components |
Dr. Stefan Caba, EDAG Engineering GmbH, DE |
| 10:00 am |
Eco-design technical solutions for a sustainable mobility |
Daniele De Caro, Stellantis NV, IT; Bernardo Barile, ArcelorMittal, IT |
| 10:30 am | Meet the Speakers | Coffee and Contacts | |
STEELS UPDATE |
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| 11:15 am |
34MnB5 with thin zinc coating – no scaling during press hardening, corrosion protection and 2000 MPa strength level |
Christoph Wagner, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, AT |
| 11:45 am |
Coating free press hardened steel: Introduction and applications |
Sarah Tedesco, Jianfeng Wang, General Motors Company, CN |
| 12:15 pm |
Hot-stamping applications in Mercedes-Benz battery electric vehicles: materials, tailored tempering and patchwork blanks |
Dr. Sebastian Heibel, Mercedes-Benz AG, DE |
| 12:45 pm | Meet the Speakers | Lunch Break | |
| 02:00 pm |
The limits of strength and performance in UHS automotive steels |
Prof. Hardy Mohrbacher, Niobelcon b.v., BE |
| 02:30 pm |
New generation of advanced high strength steels with balanced forming properties and increased crash performance for body-in-white structures |
Patrick Kuhn, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, DE |
| 03:00 pm |
Cost effective cold forming solutions with tailor rolled products |
Torben Wilks, Mubea Tailor Rolled Blanks GmbH, DE |
| 03:30 pm | Meet the Speakers | Coffee and Contacts | |
| 04:15 pm |
IN FOCUS: PLASTICS FOR THE BATTERY CASE |
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Better battery enclosures |
Paul Gallen, Hankuk Composite UK Ltd, UK | |
Thermosets in EV battery production |
Dr. Florentin Pottmeyer, Hennecke GmbH, DE | |
LEO – Lightweight with extreme opportunities |
Nabil Al Kabir, svt Products GmbH; Jan Hindahl, Saertex GmbH & Co. KG; DE | |
Q+A Focus session
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ROUTES TO SUSTAINABILITY II |
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| 5:30 pm |
Pathways into a resource-efficient production technology – Innovative approaches for manufacturing sustainable and high-performing car body components |
Prof. Marion Merklein, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Manufacturing Technology (LFT), DE |
| 06:00 pm | Meet the Speakers | Get Together |
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| 07:00 pm |
Networking Night
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ALUMINIUM CASTINGS AND EXTRUSIONS |
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| 08:30 am |
Large in-house HPDC aluminium casting for next generation body in white design at Volvo Cars |
Michelle Khoo, Volvo Car Company, SE |
| 09:00 am |
How the demand for sustainability is changing aluminum casting materials for structural components |
Dr. Stuart Wiesner, Aluminium Rheinfelden Alloys GmbH, DE |
| 09:30 am |
Advanced roof rail structures for automotive applications via multi-material Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPE) |
Prof. Jorge F. dos Santos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US |
| 10:00 am | Meet the Speakers | Coffee and Contacts | |
ALUMINIUM SHEET |
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| 10:45 am |
Sustainable aluminum for bodyshop and high-voltage batteries at BMW |
Dr. Marc Reinstettel, BMW Group, DE |
| 11:15 am |
Opportunities for automotive aluminium end of life recycling to maximize circularity |
Olivier Rebuffet, Dr. Andreas Afseth, Constellium, US |
| 11:45 am |
6xxx high formable aluminium for inner applications |
Bart Sprengers, Aluminium Duffel BV, BE |
| 12:15 pm |
A roll formed multi-hollow profile for crash |
Dr. Axel Förderreuther, Milan Felberbaum, Novelis Deutschland GmbH, CH |
| 12:45 pm | Meet the Speakers | Lunch Break | |
ALUMINIUM HOT FORMING
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| 02:00 pm |
New stamping technology for lightweight materials – Application of warm forming for high strength aluminium |
Jens Aspacher, Schuler Pressen GmbH, DE; Dr. Li-Liang Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK |
| 02:30 pm |
Hot stamping of high-strength 6XXX and 7XXX aluminum alloys |
Gerald Schulz, Fagor Arrasate S. Coop., ES |
| 03:00 pm |
Driving higher recycling rates with HFQ technology for aluminium sheet
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Dr. Richard Hunt, Impression Technologies Ltd, UK |
| 03:30 pm |
Conclusion
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OEM experts on the current challenges for modern, sustainable, series car body material concepts. |
| 03:45 pm |
Concluding remarks and farewell address |
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| 03:50 pm | End of conference |
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