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05 AUGUST 2015 AL CIRCLE

AluMag organized Asia Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium 2015 - a great success

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The 2nd International Asia Automotive Lightweight Procurement Symposium, organized by AluMag from the 6th – 8th of July 2015 at the Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel in Shanghai, China, turned out to be a great success. With the number of participants growing and level of internationality surpassing that of the previous year, it set an all new benchmark for events of the same caliber. Over a hundred professionals from numerous OEM, Tier 1, Tier 2 equipment manufacturers and independent consultants attended the event. AlCircle as the official online media partner was privileged to cover the whole event. From Day 1 till the end of the symposium, the team was witness to all the activities and insightful presentations that were made there.

The conference was formally started on July 7 with a short welcome speech by AluMag Automotive GmbH Managing Partner Mr. Jost Gaertner. The eminent speakers who took the dais after him were Mr. Frank Venier from Audi AG in charges of Strategy and Innovation Lightweight Design Centre, Mr. Gerhard Krachler from Magna Steyr Engineering AG & Co KG and Mr. Christian Juricek from Magna Cosma International, and Jochen Siebert the Managing Partner from JSC Automotive Consulting Co. Ltd. There were representatives from Kurtz GmbH, Voestalpine Metal Forming GmbH, DGS Druckguss Systeme AG, and Guangdong Hongtu Technology (Holdings) Co., Ltd as well.

All the delegates made impressive speeches on topics related to lightweighting and its prospects in automotive industry.

Mr. Frank Venier spoke on lightweighting SUV- the new Audi Q7 in multimaterial car body design. He started with highlighting Audi's 2020 corporate strategy at the backdrop of present automotive market scenario and then went on to explain how the degree of lightweighting and its complexity increases with each level of designing process.

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