Additive Manufacturing summit

Empa underscores its leading role in the exchange of knowledge in the field of Additive Manufacturing (AM). On 25 September, around 150 researchers and industry representatives from Sweden and Switzerland met at the Empa Academy as part of the Swiss-Swedish Innovation Initiative (SWII). The aim of these regular networking events is to bring together representatives of the most innovative companies in both countries with leading researchers in order to further expand bilateral research cooperation. The SWII meeting took place this year on the topic of "Additive Manufacturing and Lightweight Technologies". At the one-day conference at the Empa Academy - already the second of its kind in Dübendorf after 2013 - the close to 150 participants from industry and research were able to inform themselves in more than two dozen lectures about numerous aspects of this future technology and - equally important at these networking conferences - establish valuable contacts with potential partners. Around 30 Swedish companies sent their experts to Empa; a total of more than 180 bilateral discussions took place in the form of a kind of "Science Speed Dating". This year's event was organized jointly by the Swedish innovation agency VINNOVA and Empa as well as the Swedish trade and investment council "Business Sweden" and the Saab Group as partners.