Home News Contact Sitemap Downloads About us Sales Production R&D Timeline Environment REACH Quality Career 2014.11.03 Uddeholm Formvar: New steel grade completes the Uddeholm Hot Forging programme 2014.04.16 Uddeholms AB welcomes direct flight Frankfurt-Karlstad 2014.02.06 The 10th ESR unit to be installed in Hagfors 2015 2014.01.07 Uddeholm invests 60 milion sek during 2014 (in swedish) 2014.01.02 Uddeholm introduces the Uddeholm SuperClean Concept for powder metallurgically tool steel grades. 2013.11.26 Uddeholm and AP&T cooperating on tool steel 2013.11.01 Make machining easier with the Uddeholm Tool Holder Concept 2013.07.16 Uddeholm featured in Dagens Industri (DI): Research of Future - from idea to product: The steel behind your smartphone (in Swedish) Uddeholm Automotive Tooling Solutions Uddeholm Hot Stamping - Maximise your advantage! 2013.05.16 Uddeholm strengthen on-line services with Android app 2013.05.06 Joint €10 Million energy research project between the Swedish Energy Agency & the Swedish Steel Producers' Association. Uddeholm work for energy savings and ISO 50001 certification. 2013.04.29 Uddeholm support ambitious agenda for the Swedish metal industry A cut above the rest Uddeholm powder steel for knife applications A new way of thinking Uddeholm Automotive Tooling Events Key event list News archive Uddeholm in the media R&D Focusing on customer needs - for a clean future The focus of R&D in Uddeholm is to help our customers stay ahead of the game by providing novel products with cutting-edge properties. Right materials are just a beginning. We work hard to develop services and recommendations, to serve you and your customers in the best possible way. Together with our worldwide sales network, we aim to be an even better provider of material and service solutions for our customers in different kind of industries. In Uddeholm we always strive to do our work with the least possible environmental impact. Our steel has the highest quality with a long lifetime and for us quality is not only the properties of the material; our view on quality extends further than that. It embraces the entire value chain from raw material to finished product for the end user. The road to Balder: an example of how product development work proceeds One of Uddeholm’s main strengths is that it has its own research and development (R&D) department which includes a world-class lab for cutting properties. “We have great innovative power within the company to meet future needs.” Staffan Gunnarsson The new steel Uddeholm Balder, specifically developed for the Components business, is the result of some 10,000 hours of research and development. It takes a long time to produce new special steel from concept to commercialised product. For Balder it was almost 10 years from the day Uddeholm first held discussions with Sandvik Coromant and drew up the material’s requirement specification until this autumn, when the steel can finally be launched on the open market. Read more in The road to balder (.pdf, 716 kB). Anna Medvedeva PhD together with Staffan Gunnarsson Uddeholm support ambitious agenda for the Swedish metal industry For the first time ever, the Swedish metal industry has developed a common, strategic agenda for research and innovation. Its objective is to enable the industry to prosper from opportunities identified in the global market. Uddeholms AB supports this wholeheartedly. "We expect new knowledge that enables Uddeholm to quickly adjust to new trends, new technologies and also allow us to renew our commercial offerings through innovative solutions." Nader Asnafi, Vice President R&D, Uddeholms AB "The agenda cover many questions that are strategically important for our future competiveness. These questions have been studied and successfully answered. These questions need to be studied again and hopefully be responded to successfully again. The approach defined in the agenda is cross functional, covering both internal and external factors, which makes the program valuable and attractive thanks to the content, work approach and the way the offers/innovations have been defined. Cooperation with academic institutions, research centres and other companies creates both new knowledge and innovative solutions. The participation of Vinnova (the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems) plays - as usual – a very positive and important role in both the implementation and the quality of the program. It is very important that the individual projects are relevant to us and that the results are made available, both trough scientific publications, seminars, prototypes and more. Uddeholm is prepared and committed to actively contribute through the management of the program, research results, materials and equipment, as well financing of selected project." Vision for the wedish metal industry The vision is that Swedish metal industry is a well known and important enabler in the societal strives for a better future. This means its customer offers are on the leading edge technologically, economically and environmentally, and are developed by competent, motivated and innovative people. At the same time, the industry’s environmental footprint is the smallest possible. Presentation (English): National action for metallic materials 2.6 MB (.PDF) Presentation (Swedish): Nationell samling kring metalliska material 2.5 MB (.PDF) Jernkontoret - the Swedish Steel Producers' Association website Vinnova - the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems website Seven steps to innovation, growth and competitiveness 1. Develop market offerings The goal is that the Swedish metal industry should have world-leading ability to identify new customer value and meet this with sustainable offerings that increase revenue and push development forwards, even for other materials manufacturers. 2. Open up the value chain The goal is that the Swedish metal industry will both internally and externally create a unique environment that is constantly buzzing with creative ways to combine new advanced metallic materials with sustainable solutions and take them all the way to the end user. 3. Accelerate materials development The goal is that the Swedish metal industry will have a world-leading ability to move rapidly from a materials concept to full-scale production with the right properties to meet a demand for functionality. 4. Increase flexibility The goal is that the Swedish metal industry should be capable of producing niche materials in a short time and in small quantities at a competitive cost, in order to enhance competitiveness and resilience against economic fluctuations. 5. Improve resource efficiency The goal is that the Swedish metal industry should be a global leader in the use of all resources in such a way as to maximize resource efficiency in a life cycle perspective. 6. Reduce environmental consequences The goal is that the Swedish metal industry should be a global leader in terms of causing minimum environmental impact from a life cycle perspective. 7. Boost industrial competence and appeal The goal is that the Swedish metal industry will be ranked as one of the most attractive places to work and also attract foreign researchers and specialists. 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