SWERIM
Swerim is a leading industrial research institute within mining engineering, process metallurgy, materials, manufacturing engineering and applications. Laboratory facilities in Luleå and Stockholm offer testbeds and demonstrators for development and verification of production processes and optimization of material properties.
SSAB
SSAB is a global steel company with a leading position in high-strength steels and related services.
RWTH-IOB
Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering (IOB)
Ingelia
Thanks to its own patented HTC technology, Ingelia is leader in the design, implementation and development of unique HTC plants, able to process any type of wet biomass streams, producing high value biocoal and liquid fertilizer.
FENO
The Pittini Group operates 12 companies with 21 production and service logistics facilities located in Italy, Austria, and Slovenia and employs more than 2,000 people. The Group’s companies now cover the entire production cycle: from recycled ferrous materials to the production of construction steels, drawn products, and welding wire. The Group, with a production capacity of more than 3 million tonnes per year, is a leading manufacturer of long steels.
RINA-CSM
RINA Consulting - Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A. (in short RINA-CSM) is a fully private innovation centre with extensive experiences in the development and application of innovative processes and materials. Today RINA-CSM is part of RINA Group and is a global provider of classification, certification, testing, inspection and training services. RINA-CSM is a leading centre for applied research founded in 1963 by Italy's major steel industry. RINA-CSM with a staff of over 250 talented researchers and technicians, 20 laboratories, pilot lines and full-scale testing facilities, is the partner of choice for any project in which materials, technology and innovation play a critical role
KTH
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm is the largest and oldest technical university in Sweden. No less than one-third of Sweden's technical research and engineering education capacity at university level is provided by KTH. Education and research spans from natural sciences to all branches of engineering and includes Architecture, Industrial Management and Urban Planning. There are in total 13,400 first and second level students and almost 1,900 doctoral students. KTH has 4,900 employees.
The research work of the Materials Science and Engineering Process Unit at KTH is mostly directed towards fundamental research relevant to metallurgical and materials processes, where the unit is known for their realistic CFD and phenomena models based on mechanism study from both industrial trials and laboratory experiments. While modelling is a very important tool, the unit is also specialized in conducting experimental laboratory and industrial studies at high temperatures. The unit has extensive experience of running joint projects with partners in industry and research institutes. The unit is currently involved in several RFCS/ H2020/ HEU projects as a partner and as a coordinator. The large experience of project coordination of the Material Science and Engineering Process Unit at KTH will ensure the success of the project.
CSM is involved in following activities:
- Materials inventory and characterization
- Preliminary laboratory trials to check the suitability of the material for HTC process
- Steel/slag/char interaction study at laboratory scale
- Cooperation with FENO for industrial trials
CELSA
Global Steel Wire: Global Steel Wire Group is part of CELSA Group™, the largest European manufacturer of circular steel with 8 million tons of scrap recovered annually and an annual transformation and sale of 7 million tons of steel. In the CELSA Group™, steel is only manufactured from recycling scrap in electric arc furnaces, the most energy and environmentally efficient steel manufacturing process, with low CO2 emissions. Global Steel Wire Group is the European leader in high value-added wire rod and Europe’s largest downstream integrated group.
ORI MARTIN
Founded in 1933, it developed into an electric furnace steel mill to produce continuous casting billets and hot rolled wire rod, bars in coils and alloy steel bars for special applications in the automotive sector, such as: nuts and bolts, suspension springs, torsion bars, steering components and mechanics in general. It is also fitted with installations for annealing and tempering thermal treatments.
UPV-ITQ
The Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) is a joint research centre created in 1990 by the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) located at the UPV Campus. The ITQ is an international reference centre in the area of catalysis and new materials (specially zeolites) and also in photochemistry. Due to its excellent fundamental and oriented research level and to its multidisciplinary character, the ITQ has the possibility to develop research in different disciplines having an extraordinary flexibility and capability to adapt itself to new research challenges.