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Successfully Closed the 10th Aluminium World Congress: Aluminium Two Thousand and ICEB World Congress Confirm Their Leading Role
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More sections were represented by he success of the 10th Aluminium Two (Aluminum Anodizers Council), the markets and strategies, extrusion, surface Thousand World Congress together American Association of Anodizers to learn treatments, rolling, and coil technologies, with the 6th ICEB (International essential techniques for producing quality casting and melting, transport industry, Conference on Extrusion and Benchmark) was anodized products (Fig. 1). The conference recycling & environmental issues that expected, but the numbers and the outcome sessions took place in 4 separate parallel have been very successful for innovative were beyond any positive expectation. conference rooms and during the whole presentations. As many as 100 papers These are the numbers for “Verona 2017”: duration of the congress there was the were presented by famous technicians, 315 participants, 100 technical papers, General Sponsor Area dedicated to participants from 36 sponsor companies, countries, over 75% of a meeting point for all participants have already participants. expressed their intention The great number of coming also to the of papers presented next edition. American have brought to and German delegates the attention of the were the most numerous aluminium industry participants together very innovative with the Italian ones. technologies and However, the presence some of them of experts coming from have already been Europe, China, the Far requested to the East and North and South speakers and to America, is a proof of the their companies for importance of the chances industrial application 1 offered by this unique in the near future. event. Real aluminium The scientific Figure 1: The “Advanced Anodizing Class (Level 3)”, held by the anodizing experts of committee was formed specialists are rare and far AAC (Aluminum Anodizers Council), the American Association of Anodizers to learn away from each other all by Dr. L. Donati, essential techniques for producing quality anodized products. over the world: this is why Prof. L.Tomesani, they are so ready to grasp Dr. R. Squatrito, Dr. B. researchers and managers from the most the occasion of meeting each other under Reggiani, Dr. I. Todaro, from DIN, University important aluminium companies at a one roof in a Conference where all aspects of of Bologna, Italy for extrusion and casting world-wide level. All of this resulted in aluminium technologies are discussed. The sessions; Dr. Walter Dalla Barba, of Interall, three days of intense work. international panorama of the aluminium Italy and F. Vincenzi, Italtecno Italy, for the Big interest and participation to the market during the plenary session on the first anodizing and coating sessions. “Advanced Anodizing Class (Level 3)”, day of the conference has attracted much For more information: interest. held by the anodizing experts of AAC www.aluminium2000.com
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