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39th Hagen Symposium 2021: Sustainable solutions and new markets for Powder Metallurgy Following a year’s postponement as a result of COVID-19, the 39th Hagen Symposium finally took place from November 25–26, 2021. Organised by Germany’s Fachverband Pulvermetallurgie, this long-anticipated event brought together the German-speaking PM community for two days of highlevel technical presentations on the topic of sustainable solutions and new markets for Powder Metallurgy. Dr Georg Schlieper attended the symposium on behalf of PM Review, and here reports on the key takeaways from a programme whose theme in 2021 aimed to help PM cement its place in a more sustainable future.
The annual Hagen Symposium, organised by the German PM trade association Fachverband Pulvermetallurgie e.V (FPM), is attended by engineers, researchers and students looking to discover the latest advances in Powder Metallurgy, maintain contacts and make new ones in the PM community. The technical lectures presented during the event allow delegates gain a deep insight into many sub-areas of Powder Metallurgy. The accompanying exhibition showcases the latest developments from research institutes and suppliers of raw materials, production equipment and quality assurance facilities. The theme for this year’s Hagen Symposium was ‘Powder Metallurgy – sustainable solutions and new markets,’ and this topic of sustainability and the search for new markets was addressed in some form in almost all of the sixteen technical presentations given. In particular, the shift in the automotive industry towards electromobility was
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dealt with, and opportunities for the PM industry to find its place in this electrified future were sought. As is well known, the PM industry has been closely aligned with the internal combustion engine (ICE) and trans-
mission, and so is highly affected by these changes. Also of note was the long-awaited presentation by Skaupy Prize winner Dr.-Ing. Christoph Broeckmann, RWTH Aachen. In 2020, Broeckmann
Fig. 1 Presentation of the Skaupy Award to Christoph Broeckmann, RWTH Aachen, (centre), by Herbert Danninger, TU Vienna (left), and Werner Theisen, TU Bochum (right) (Courtesy Fachverband)
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