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SESSION 1 LIGHTWEIGHTING

Chairman: Alexander Hoffmann

Head ofTechnology - Development Metals, Audi AG, Germany

Aluminium in innovative light-weight car design

Analysis of Strength Relevance in Crash and Stiffness

Relevance for Typical Car Body Components

Innovative forged and extruded components -

a contribution to C02 -reduction

Weight Reduction with Aluminium Suspension, Chassis

and Body Parts

New alloy possibilities for Automotive BIW

SeALUmax - High Performance Anodized Layers

Jiirgen Hirsch

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH

S. Fassbender, R. Henn, M. Lesemann

Institut fiir Kraftfahrzeuge Aachen (ika)Geschaftsbereich Karosserie /

Body DepartmentRWTH Aachen University

Bernd Velten

OTTO FUCHS KG

Heinrich FuchsHONSELAG

Jorg Hein

Alcan Specialty Sheet, Alcan Neuf-Brisach

Reiner Steins, Dierk Warburg, Roman Wochele,Vanessa Angenendt, Matthias MatyanowskiWKW Erbsloh Automotive GmbH

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SESSION 2 - JOINING

Chairman: Frank Busenbecker

Executive Director, Erbsloh Aluminium GmbH, Germany

A new type of sheet metal screws in practise - Carsten Bye 07

new possibilities with a new joining method University of Applied Science, Diepholz

Mechanical Joining ofAluminum Lightweight Constructions Gerson Meschut, Torsten Draht 08

Wilhelm BollhoffGmbH&Co. KG

Threaded fastening systems with aluminum components - Christoph Friedrich, Thomas Gerhard, Daniel Koch, 09special characteristics for light weight design

Arc Joining of Steel-Aluminium-Tailored-Hybrid-Blanks

Bonded drive shafts made of Al-tube with steel load

transfer elements

Innovative Joining Methods for Lightweight Designs

Heiko KopferUniversity of Siegen, Institute of Engineering Design,Machine Elements - Fastening Systems - Product Inno¬vation

Uwe Reisgen, Lars Stein, Marius Steiners 10

Welding and Joining Institute (ISF)RWTH-Aachen University

Holger Fricke 11

Fraunhofer Institute for ManufacturingTechnology and Applied Materials Research (IFAM)

Sonja Huber, Michael Marre, Markus Ruhstorfer, Jens 12

Rautenberg, Christian Weddeling, Thilo Hammers,Michael Kronthaler, Matthias Merzkirch, Michael F.

Zaeh, Erman Tekkaya, Dirk Biermann, Volker Schulze,Andreas Zabel

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SESSION 3 - BODY / STRUCTURE

Chairman: A. Erman TekkayaInstitute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL), TU Dortmund, Germany

Aluminium - a sustainable material for lightweight design in

automotive

Roadkart - an innovative small-series sportscar with an

aluminium spaceframe construction

Progress report about Adoption of Sheets and Profiles out

of Magnesium alloy MnE2r

High Strength Aluminium 7xxx Alloys for Increased WeightSavings in BiW Applications

Dietrich Wieser 13

Alcoa Europe - Ground Transportation

Christian Schafers - FH Osnabruck 14

Viktor Prediger - FH Osnabruck

Jurgen Stockel - Stockel Karosserietechnik

Peter Stolfig 15

Stolfig AG

Chris Lahaye, Alastair Wise 16

Corns Research

Thomas Herding, Wolfgang BraunschweigAleris Europe

SESSION 4 - POWERTRAIN

Chairman: Will J. SavageChief Executive, ALUMINIUM FEDERATION LTD, England

Potential of Aluminium Alloys for highly loaded Cylinder Heads

Spray formed Aluminium alloys for Powertrain Applications -

Materials, Surface Modification and Joining Technology

Laser cleaning and de-coating applications of aluminium in

power-train production

Applicability and Employment of Aluminium Tailored Blanks

in Automobile Industry

Heinrich Fuchs 17

HONSELAG

Peter Krug 18

PEAK Werkstoff GmbH

Edwin Buchter 19

Clean-Lasersysteme GmbH

Shahram Sheikhi 20

SchweiBtechnische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt,SLV Duisburg

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SESSION 5-BODY/CLOSURES

Chairman: Dietrich Wieser

Director Business Development Ground Transportation, Alcoa Europe

High Strength Aluminium Sheet for Automotive Applications

On the use of cladded aluminium sheets for different

automotive applications

"The Future Generation Flaps for Coaches" - An intelligentAluminium Hybrid Solution incorporating Sheet and

Extruded Profiles

Novelis multi-material-Fusion for the automotive conceptsof the future

Rolling of Aluminium Riblet-Surfaces

Dirk Uffeimann

AMAG rolling GmbH

Henk-Jan Brinkman

Hydro Aluminium R&D

Dietmar Schroder

Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products

Tobias Schwalb

apt Oehme GmbH

Rainer Kossak

Development Automotive,Novelis Switzerland SA

G. Hirt, B. Wietbrock, T. Romans, M. Thome

Institute of Metal Formingof the RWTH Aachen University

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SESSION 6 - COMPONENTS / SEMIS

Chairman: Peter Furrer

Senior Advisor, Technical Marketing & Communication, Novelis AG, Switzerland

ALMINOX - The next generation of highlydecorative Aluminium

A New Aluminium Alloy For High Performance SpaceFrame Profiles

Composite Extrusion and Threading of ContinuouslyReinforced Aluminium Profiles

Powder Extrusions of Aluminium Alloys

Hot Profile Extrusion of different Chip Types of

Aluminum Alloy 6060

Norbert William Sucke, Lothar Lochte 26

Erbslflh Aluminium GmbH

Horst Gers, Dirk Schnapp 27

HONSELAG

Jana Ehrke, Marcel Rosefort, Hubert Koch

TRIMET ALUMINIUM AG

Timo Engbert, Dirk Biermann, Andreas Zabel 28

ISF - TU DortmundDaniel Pietzka, A. Erman Tekkaya, Nooman Ben Khalifa

IUL-TU Dortmund

Peter Schaffler 29

Alulight International GmbH

Volkan Guley, Nooman Ben Khalifa, A. Erman Tekkaya 30

IUL-TU Dortmund

K. Pantke, Dirk BiermannISF-TU Dortmund

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