RINA provides a wide range of services across the Energy, Marine, Certification, Transport & Infrastructure and Industry sectors. With a turnover in 2019 of 465 million Euros, over 3,900 employees and 200 offices in 70 countries worldwide, RINA is a member of key international organizations and an important contributor to the development of new legislative standards. Thanks to our international and multidisciplinary teams and to our unrivalled application expertise across all industrial sectors, RINA creates high value by cross-fertilising ideas between different industrial sectors and assessing alternative concepts through our modelling and simulation methodologies.
Within the Industry BU, RINA Consulting - Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A (RINA-CSM) is the company mainly devoted to EU R&D sector. RINA-CSM was founded in 1963 as a Research Center by Italian state-owned national industries. Since 2013, RINA-CSM has been incorporated in RINA group which holds all its share. RINA-CSM activities are mainly related to the development of new materials, the performance assessment of materials and components in new application windows, the optimization and the development of innovative processes, the development of innovative pilot plants, creating special testing equipment and the reduction of environmental impacts.
Marcegaglia is the Italian leading player and the largest independent global operator in the steel processing industry. With 6.2 million tons processed each year and a turnover of more than 7.5 billion euros, Marcegaglia is an Italian industrial group, that is a leading player in Europe and worldwide in the transformation of steel. Their 50 production sites in Italy and overseas (Europe, USA, South America, Asia) are equipped with cutting-edge technology. Marcegaglia processes around 5.0 million tonnes of steel every year and produces daily almost 5,500 kilometers of welded tubes, sections, drawn products, panels, strips, and sheets in stainless and carbon steel and aluminum, of all sizes and thicknesses. Customers are the automotive industry, papermaking industry and food industry as well as electrical appliances, heat exchangers, furniture, and shelving; in the construction of buildings and large infrastructures; in metal structural work.
Feralpi Siderurgica S.p.A. is the leader company of the homonymous Feralpi Group, established in 1968 in Lonato del Garda, in the province of Brescia. Feralpi Group is one of major European manufacturers of reinforcing steel in bars and coils, wire rod, electro welded mesh and other derivatives with a production capacity of about 2,2 Mt/year and about 1500 employees. It also processes scrap, delivered by road or rail, by means of a shear and a shredder. Feralpi Siderurgica plant is equipped with one EAF, one LF, one continuous casting machine and two rolling mills for bars and wire rods.
ESF Elbe-Stahlwerke Feralpi GmbH (ESF) is a company of the Feralpi Group that is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of steels for use in building construction. By acquiring ESF in 1992, the Feralpi Group gave continuity to the lengthy steel-making tradition of Riesa (Saxony), which is an important benchmark for the economic development and employment of the entire region. The site of Feralpi ESF is the first example equipped with energy recovery system from the EAF off gas to produce electrical energy and steam devoted to process use and district heating for surrounding community.
The research and educational focus of the Institute of Metal Forming is on the influence of forming technology on the material and the interaction between forming technology and property development of different materials. The integrated development approach practised utilises the full capabilities of the own unique plant park of the institute. This comprises several rolling mills, forming presses with an associated robot manipulator as well as a semi-continuous rolling plant which can be configured for either wire or sheet metal production. For the development of new alloys and the optimisation of existing ones, a laboratory melting furnace as well as various electrically and conventionally operated chamber and circulating air furnaces are also available.
The development process of either materials or technologies is further enhanced through numerical and analytical simulations utilising modern programming languages and concepts for own projects as well as commercial software tools. Within numerous research projects, the heating behaviour of induction heating systems has been investigated and modelled, especially for flat products, with reference to its influence on the material behaviour in hot forming.
TUBAF
Institute of Iron and Steel Technology
The Institute of Iron and Steel Technology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg is embedded in an environment rich in tradition with historically rooted high scientific quality. Ferrous metallurgy has been one of the fields of research and teaching at TU Bergakademie Freiberg since 1874. The material steel, which is the focus of ferrous metallurgy, is and will remain one of the most important construction materials in the future with growing requirements in the field of manufacturing and processing technologies and thus a central research focus of materials development.
In the field of metallurgy of iron and steel production, the Institute of Iron and Steel Technology focusses in particular with:
- basic research on the topics of: reduction, equilibria, atomization and casting and solidification
- thermophysical properties of liquid steels and slags
- development of measurement methods.
Other key areas of research at the Institute of Iron and Steel Technology are:
- the design, production and application of steels, as well as the characterization of phase transformation
- behaviour and the resulting microstructure
- smart heat treatments for steels
- material development for additive manufacturing
The mission of the Łukasiewicz Upper Silesian Institute of Technology (Łukasiewicz - GIT) is to rendering scientific research, consulting and training services for steel producers, steel users and institutions involved in the steel business. Łukasiewicz - GIT competences include: process metallurgy, casting, rolling and forging technology development and heat treatment. It is equipped with apparatuses for physical simulation of technological processes, numerical modelling and semi-production facilities including casting and hot rolling.
Łukasiewicz - GIT activities are strongly related to the European steel production sector and are aimed at introducing innovative and environmentally friendly solutions. Over the last decade, the institute has been involved in the development of steels and technologies in the Transportation, Mining Industry, Power Industry and Defence. The investigations were conducted in close collaboration with Government Agencies and with European research centers and academia. In Poland, Łukasiewicz - GIT conducts research in close cooperation with several universities and with private and public companies.