Publicly funded projects
| Short title | Full title | Duration | Project sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyRolL | PyRolL validation project | 01.02.2024 – 31.05.2025 | SAB |
| Impact of preheating strategies | Hydrogen-based, energy-efficient and CO₂-neutral preheating technologies – practical implications of the energy transition for preheating prior to hot forming of steel and non-ferrous alloys for long and flat products | 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2025 | Krüger Foundation |
| Accompanying elements | Investigation into the suitability of CO₂-neutral steel with a high proportion of accompanying elements for the manufacture of high-quality springs | 1 January 2024 – 30 June 2026 | AiF |
| NitridAge | Development of a cost-effective and energy-saving steel forming process with a shortened process chain | 112.2023 – 30.04.2026 | ZIM |
| LightForge | Sustainable Forging Steels for Automotive Lightweighting | 01.07.2023 – 31 December 2026 | EU |
| TRIP/TWIP steels | Laminated composite materials made from TRIP/TWIP steels with tailor-made properties | 15May 2023 – 14 May 2025 | DFG |
| Refrabund Phase 2 | Fast, physics-based algorithms for modelling the heat treatment of refractory composites and composite materials in relation to their properties | 1March 2023 – 28 February 2026 | DFG |
| ModiPlant | MODular hybrId technology in the Steel PLANT production | 101.2023 – 30.06.2027 | EU |
| iMATECH AltLeg | Development of new alternative materials for musical instruments | 01.1 January 2023 – 31 December 2024 | I-Ma-Tech |
| GKZ (microstructural linearity) | Experimental investigation and material-specific description of the effect of AC annealing of wire rod made from cold-flow-pressing steels on the degree of microstructural uniformity and its influence on processing-relevant mechanical and technological properties | 01.02 February 2023 – 31 July 2025 | AiF |
| Clean-Mag | CO₂-neutral production of lightweight components made of magnesium | 0112.2022 – 30.11.2025 | BMWK |
| Cold strip rolling stand | Modernisation of a cold strip rolling stand | 01.10 December 2022 – 31 December 2023 | DFG |
| WZ73-TMB | Thermomechanical treatment of a cast-rolled, LPSO-containing WZ73 magnesium alloy for customised microstructure and property optimisation | 110.2022 – 30.09.2025 | DFG |
| Cu-Sn steel scrap | Cu/Sn steel scrap for cold extrusion parts | 01.07.2022 – 31.09.2024 | ZIM |
| SiPro | Resource-efficient comprehensive simulation of rolling and forging processes | 01.01.2022 – 31.12.2024 | BMBF |
| Tailer Quenched Forming | Production of stress-optimised aluminium components by controlling local cooling rates as part of a combined forming, quenching and hardening process | 18.10.2021 – 17.10.2023 | DFG |
| AUSTRONG | Development of new high-strength austenitic stainless steels for large lightweight storage applications | 01.July 2021 – 31 December 2024 | RFCS |
| NanoBainControl | Accelerated nanobainitic transformation in low-alloy steels processed by incremental forging. Accelerated nano-bainitic transformation in low-alloy steels for free-form forging | 1 June 2021 – 31 May 2024 | SAB |
| IMATECH | Prevention of zinc pitting in the manufacture of brass wind instruments | 1 December 2020 – 31 October 2023 | I-Ma-Tech |
| Pressbainite | Material and process development for partial bainitic press hardening using advanced bainite transformation models | 112.2020 – 30.11.2023 | DFG |
| Phase morphology | Integrative material and process model for the correlation of phase morphology and flow behaviour of spheroidisation-annealed low-alloy carbon steels | 1 December 2019 – 31 May 2024 | DFG |
| CircEcon-ReAlForm | CircEcon-ReAlForm – Harnessing the potential of recycled aluminium through advanced forming techniques - Preparations for the CircEcon Innovation Centre in Lusatia | 9 January 2025 – 30 June 2027 | SAB |