Advanced Multimaterials in the Automotive Industry at AIC
Professionals from six countries meet to analyse the key technologies | 10/10/2016Bilbao, 10.10.2016-- AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center, Tecnalia and Mondragon University organise the Advanced Multimaterials in the Automotive Industry Conference 2016, to be held on November 8 at AIC.
The automotive industry is investing heavily in the manufacture of cleaner vehicles, which means lighter cars but without compromising on safety. Car manufacturers are responding to the challenge by means of a multimaterial strategy, using the appropriate materials for the appropriate component.
The conference aims to dissect this strategy by focusing on concepts of multimaterial bodywork, lightweight body designs, new steels, aluminium alloys and composites for structural parts and joining technologies. To do this there will be professionals from six countries from vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, technology centres and universities.
In addition, to provide practical experience on the topics treated, a fully disassembled series 7 BMW will be at the conference, a vehicle with important multimaterial solutions applied and already on the market.
AIC is a foundation promoted by the Provincial Council of Biscay, the town councils of Amorebieta-Etxano and Ermua, a group of leading companies from the automotive industry and the ACICAE-Automotive Cluster in the Basque Country. There are knowledge, training, technology and industrial development activities within its structure to improve the competitiveness of the automotive industry. There are 30 organisations and more than 700 people working at its facilities.
Tecnalia is the first private applied research and technological development centre in Spain and one of the most important in Europe. Our greatest value lies in a team of more than 1,400 experts aimed at transforming technology into GDP to improve peoples quality of life, creating business opportunities in companies. Experts from 30 nations, distributed over 22 sites, looking at, identifying and developing comprehensive technological solutions with creativity and imagination for more than 4,000 customers, offering comprehensive solutions with a personalised, multidisciplinary touch for each of them.
The Higher Polytechnic School of Mondragon University is the Faculty of Engineering of Mondragon University. Integrated into the Mondragon Group, its main activities are the training, research and technology transfer to companies and other private or public entities. Its legal owner, Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa, is a non-profit public interest education cooperative.