Partners
The project mobilizes four organizations including one steel maker (SCHMIEDEWERKE GRÖDITZ), one die maker (LEBARIO ROMANIA), one end user (2A SPA) and one research center (TECNALIA) with long experience in alloy design, steel making, foundry and metal forming). The consortium partners have been selected by considering carefully their different competences and know how, and fitting them together in complementary roles within the project, avoiding overlaps in the work share. There is a complementarity between them, with also a good distribution over different European countries (3 different countries). All the consortium partners have a long experience in collaborating in R&D&i projects, from regional to international projects, with the presence of explained before 3 industrial enterprises with a clear bet in R&D&i and a research centre.
Tecnalia Research & Innovation is a private non profitable technological research centre, settled in Derio (Spain). TECNALIA operates in all the fields of today and tomorrow’s industry: Industry and Transport, Information and Communication Technologies, Building, Energy and Environment, Innovation Systems and Health and Quality of Life.
Schmiedewerke Gröditz is producing heavy weight forgings for worldwide clients. It employs 725 people at a turnover of 197 Mio € in 2012. The production is based on a steel plant with a 50t furnace, secondary metallurgy and ingot casting. The annual output of about 120.000t steel per year of ingots is forged at the forging shop with two presses (27 MN and 60 MN). All products get a customized heat treatment and machined if necessary. Several devices are equipped for machining up to 40t forgings.
Industrial die maker that belongs to Industrias Lebario Group establish in Romania in 2010. Their axles are in Spain, Romania and México (2015). They have two plants with 4,300 m2 dedicated to production and 700 m2 of office space, with a total capacity of 85,000 hours per year. They design and produce dies for aluminum and magnesium injection, for up to 3,500-ton machines. Work began in 1975 with dies for small parts. They have experienced constant growth, specializing in larger dies for an ever-growing client-base. They support a 100 strong workforce with a high level of industry knowledge and understanding, and an enthusiasm to continually learn and improve, with 30 people in Romania plant.
2A is a private owned aluminium global die-casting foundry specialized in the development and production of automotive and industrial components. 2A was born in 1974 as a small zamak die-casting foundry integrated in the zippers production department of the mother company: roughly ten years later, the company started to sell its own casting technology to the national automotive industry and to Telecom and computer application. In order to follow the growing Customers demand, whom where asking for bigger parts made by aluminium alloys, in 1989 2A bought 4 different foundries and consolidated them.
