IFM - 17th International Forgemasters Meeting

Santander, Spain - The 17th International Forgemasters Meeting, will be held in Santander, Spain from November 3 to 7, 2008 where Tecnogamma will be present along with all of the most important companies involved in this field.
This meeting acts as an essential forum in which the most important and current issues affecting the sector are discussed.
On this occasion, presentations and poster sessions, including the participation of experts in the fields of greatest interest, will address such issues.
Given that the event will be attended by over 500 researchers, skilled technicians and decision makers it will be, without a doubt, an essential meeting point during 2008 for the industry.
Main topics of the conference will be:

• recent changes in the market and forging industry around the world;
• steel making and refining;
• new facilities and equipment;
• forging for power generation and pressure vessels;
• large forging for heavy engineering;
• forged rolls for strip and plate mills;
• tool steel;
• super alloys and titanium alloys;
• manufacturing processes;
• simulation and modelling;
• quality control and non-destructive examination

Tecnogamma will be present at the conference with a technical paper on "key benefits obtained by the application of laser measurement & diagnostics systems to ring mills and forges".
Parallel to the technical sessions, there will be a trade exhibition which will be fitted with 1,200 square metres of exhibition space during the days of the conference.

The MER MEC Group, represented at the event by Tecnogamma at booth n. 111, extends a warm invitation to all those interested in IRON & STEEL INDUSTRY and especially in industrial measurement systems for automatic detection and analysis of hot & cold profiles and surface inspection systems for long products, ring rolling and large open-die forgings.