Last 16th of October NIWE Project celebrated a Stakeholder´s meeting in Brussels. Partners of the NIWE Project presented all achievements and developments to the attendees. The main objective of this meeting was to present and comment, within a selected and reduced audience, the innovations of NIWE project to the European foundry industry. In this stakeholders [...]
The NIWE partner TECNALIA participated in the 73rd World Foundry Congress (WFC) and presented an abstract of the project NIWE (“New induction wireless efficient manufacturing process furnaces”) in this remarkable event. There was not only an abstract in the proceedings but a specific presentation of the project and the full paper of the project could [...]
Last 5th June the NIWE coordinator CIRCE, had the chance of presenting the latest results of the project at the EU Sutainable Energy Week ( EUSEW), to European stakeholders of the energy sector. The presentation “Wireless Power Transfer solutions for energy efficient furnaces and industrial applications” showed the properties of the induction concept applied to [...]
Between the 28th of May and the 1st of June, the partners AFV and Tecnalia disseminated the NIWE project in the BIEMH fair, “Bienal Española de Máquina-Herramienta” to all attendees to this international event. In year more than 42,000 people have visited the 30th edition of BIEMH. BIEMH fair is committed to showcase the most [...]
Between the 30th and 31st of January took place the eighth general meeting of NIWE project in Inductotherm - Ondarlan, Errenteria (Gipuzkoa). The meeting of the first day began with the review of the tasks already completed. After some changes in the consortium project, tasks have a good evolution and it is expected that all [...]
Last 19th and 20th of February the partner AFV participated in INTERGUNE+ 2018 and disseminated the NIWE project to all attendees to this international event. INTERGUNE+ is the Forum of Internationalization of Euskadi, a meeting point and a reference date to do business with an international vocation in the Basque Country. During these two days, different stakeholder [...]
Television Española TVE, the national state-owned television broadcaster in Spain, has produced a report describing the innovations carried out by the NIWE project. The journalist of TVE visited the foundry pilot plant of Tecnalia in Vizcaya to interview the NIWE partner Antón Meléndez, who explained all the details of the new induction concept for [...]
On 23rd of November 2017, TECNALIA organized a 4.0 HPDC (High Pressure Die Casting) International Forum in Bizkaia Scientific and Technology Park, in Zamudio (Bizkaia). In this forum, companies of high pressure die casting, technology suppliers, raw materials companies of the value chain, for the development of the design, implementation and use of structural parts [...]
Between the 6th and 8th of June 2017 took place the trade-show "SUBCONTRATACIÓN 2017, International Trade Fair for Processes and Equipment for Manufacturing" which was held simultaneously with the FERROFORMA, FITMAQ, MAINTENANCE , PUMPS & VALVES and ADDIT3D at Bilbao Exibition Center (BEC, Bizkaia). A total of 19.200 professionals from 71 countries attended all the [...]
In May was delivered to TECNALIA the WPT (Wireless Power Transfer) lab scale prototype of 100 kW for iron and steel Sectors. This systems will be tested over a Furnace provided by ONDARLAN. Although the system is designed to be used to maintain the metal molten, it will be tested to melt iron and steel. [...]
