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CONGRESS ALUMINIUM 2000: 2023 – Bologna, Italy

 

United Aluminium World at
12th Aluminium Two Thousand World Congress
In collaboration with
7th International Conference on Extrusion and Benchmark
19 – 23 September 2023, Bologna, Italy

Meet the Specialists for successful business

 

WHAT IS ALUMINIUM TWO THOUSAND CONGRESS?

Aluminium Two Thousand Congress is an international not-to-be-missed conference about aluminum world.

After 11 editions, it has become a very important and irreplaceable meeting point for all the operators working in the Aluminum industry.

Highly qualified “Aluspecialist” from companies, universities and associations come from all over the world to present to a specialized and international audience the most innovative technologies and applications in the aluminium field.

WHAT IS ICEB?

The International Conference on Extrusion and Benchmark (ICEB) has become the biggest event in Europe related to the recent developments on Extrusion Technology and its analysis by FEM simulation.

The aim of the conference is to join together technical and scientific experts, to widespread their knowledge and to form an international community for the discussion of state of the art, as well as future developments, in the field of extrusion and in its most powerful tool, the numerical simulation.

Also for the 2023 edition the ICEB conference will keep all its main features, by merging technical sessions on the “Latest advances in the extrusion of light alloys” with the contest “Extrusion Benchmark” of simulation codes.

WHAT IS THE GOAL OF THE CONGRESS?

To analyse all the aspects of the Aluminium chain, to meet colleagues from around the world, to join technical and scientific experts, to exchange ideas and advices and to give your own contribution to the growth of the aluminium industry and the improvement of technology. Customers and suppliers can improve their business and become stronger as an “aluminium community”.

AUDIENCE OF THE CONGRESS

  • Extrusion companies
  • Extruded Profiles Users
  • Anodizing and Coating companies
  • Foundry and Cast Houses
  • Billet DC casters
  • Press and Equipment Builders
  • Dies and Tools Makers
  • Academic and Industrial Researchers
  • Alloys specialists
  • Software Houses
  • Software Distributors
  • Suppliers of instruments, devices and products for extrusion industry
  • Manufacturers of architectural frames for windows, curtain wall
  • Manufacturers in automotive sector, etc.

Aluminium Two Thousand congress will also appeal to:

  • aluminium distributors
  • architectural designers
  • mechanical engineers – particularly those in the extrusion and casting industry
  • financial investors will also be interested.

ALUMINIUM TWO THOUSAND CONFERENCE TOPICS

MARKETS & STRATEGIES:

  • The traditional markets: Europe, USA, Canada, Middle East, The Gulf, Far East
  • BRIC Countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and their present and future role
  • New emerging countries: Mexico, Central and South America

ALLOYS BILLETS & RELATED EQUIPMENT:

  • Foundry
  • Aluminium casthouse technology
  • Billet quality
  • Billet casting
  • Homogenization
  • Use of primary aluminium and scrap
  • High speed alloys

ROLLING TECHNOLOGY:

  • Innovative equipment
  • New application of aluminium coil and sheet in the industry

ARCHITECTURE & SPECIAL USES:

  • Building systems
  • Curtain walls
  • Design & Construction
  • CAD / CAM
  • Exterior & Interior Finishing
  • Renewal and Maintenance
  • Windows & Doors
  • New applications

TRANSPORT & AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY:

  • Product and process innovations
  • Aeronautics
  • Nautical
  • Automotive
  • Rail sectors
  • Patents
  • Computer technologies
  • Mechanical processing
  • AlloysDesign and innovation

EXTRUSION:

PROCESS SIMULATION:

  • Models
  • Validation
  • Process Analysis and Optimization
  • Material Flow
  • Friction
  • Stress State Prediction
  • Quenching and nitrogen cooling simulations

PRODUCT QUALITY:

  • Defects
  • Mechanical proprieties
  • Seam/Charge Welds
  • Maximum Production Rates
  • Microstructure
  • Distortions
  • Aesthetic Defects
  • Metallurgy for High-Speed Extrusion
  • Metallurgy for Paint Adhesion

DIES:

  • Die design and manufacturing
  • Die correction
  • Die cleaning and polishing
  • High Production Rates
  • Oriented Design
  • Die Life
  • Die steels
  • Coatings
  • Correction Strategies
  • Die Cooling systems

PROCESS MONITORING:

  • Temperature, speed and pressure sensors
  • Sensors Effectiveness
  • New Devices
  • Data Management Systems
  • Data Warehouse

INNOVATIVE PROCESSES:

  • Conform
  • Thixoextrusion
  • Rollforming Extrusion
  • Hot Profile Bending
  • Chip Extrusion
  • Composite Extrusion

ALLOYS AND METALLURGY:

  • Hard/New Light Alloys
  • Contents:
  • Lithium Alloys
  • Composite Alloys
  • Metallurgy of alloys for extrusion

PLANT & PROCESS:

  • Furnaces
  • Presses
  • Post-Casting Operations
  • Quenching tunnels
  • Cooling Devices
  • Die Nitrogen Cooling
  • Handling equipment
  • Ovens and Heating Systems
  • Saws and shears
  • Downstream equipment
  • Automation
  • Hard and Big Profiles
  • Packaging

PROCESS MANAGEMENT:

  • Economical-driven Decisions
  • Process Control
  • Process Savings
  • The “Small Lots” Problem
  • Architectural and Non-Architectural Systems

PROCESS SUSTAINABILITY:

  • Eco-equipmen
  • Eco-plants
  • Sustainable Production
  • Energy Savings

ANODIZING:

  • Racking & Jigging
  • Pretreatment
  • Mechanical & Chemical Etching
  • High-Speed Anodizing
  • Anodizing and colouring of special alloys from casting and die casting
  • Hard Anodizing
  • Rectifiers
  • New Dipping & Electrocolouring Colours
  • Patterned Effects
  • Advances in Sealing
  • Nickel free cold sealing
  • Vertical Plants
  • Automatic Racking

COATING:

  • Powder & Wet Processes
  • Pretreatments
  • Chrome-free products
  • High-Performance Polyesters
  • Powder Coil Coating
  • Small Lots Handling
  • Vertical & Horizontal Plants
  • Compact Plants
  • Filiform and Point Defects
  • Adhesion Problems
  • New Powder Application Methods
  • Wood effects
  • Paints
  • Coating materials
  • Raw materials for paints
  • Paint production systems for powder coating

NANO TECHNOLOGIES

  • applied to aluminium

AUTOMATION:

  • The “Intelligent Plant”
  • Automatic Extrusion
  • Anodizing with Automatic Racking
  • Fully Automatic Coating Plants
  • Automation in Profile Packing
  • Automatic Warehouse
  • Internet for aluminium technologies

MEASURING, TESTING & QUALITY TECHNIQUES:

  • Certification
  • Computerized Technologies
  • Measurement and control techniques
  • Measurement Instruments
  • Quality Management & Control
  • Testing
  • Materials analysis

ADVANCED APPLICATIONS & RESEARCH:

  • Materials handling
  • Automation systems
  • New patents
  • New applications
  • Aluminium and Sportive equipment

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & RECYCLING:

  • Accident Prevention
  • Anti-pollution machinery
  • Innovative plants
  • Environmental Technology
  • Recovery and Materials recycling
  • Safety Equipment
  • Technology and processes
  • Effluent and Fumes Treatment
  • Water saving
  • Zero discharge
  • Ecological systems and equipment
  • Sludge reduction
  • Sulphate reduction in the effluents

CASTING & DIE CASTING:

  • Casting processes
  • Solidification
  • Simulation
  • Rapid casting
  • Innovative processes
  • New materials and alloys
  • Defects
  • – The Importance of Magnesium and Its Alloys in Modern Technology and Methods of Shaping Their Structure and Properties
  • Heat treatments
  • Mould design

PROCESS MANAGEMENT:

  • The Challenge For Competitiveness: Innovative Technologies Introduction on the Shop Floor
  • Management Strategies
  • Process Development
  • Quality Assessment

PROCESS QUALITY:

  • Charge Materials
  • Pre-Furnace Treatment
  • Melting
  • Fluxing
  • Grain Refinement
  • Filling and Feeding Systems
  • Grain Refinement
  • Cast Microstructures and Defects

PROCESS MONITORING:

  • From Raw Material to the Final Casting: Sensors
  • Analysis Devices
  • Data Management
  • The role of ERPs within the Process Monitoring

PROCESS INNOVATION:

  • Novel Technologies or Technology Enhancement: Innovation in Casting Practice

PROCESS SIMULATION:

  • Prediction Models
  • Validation
  • Optimization
  • Codesign/Cross Linking Between Process
  • Structural Simulation

NEW ALLOYS:

  • The Role of New Alloying Elements on Product Performances and their Compatibility with Casting Process