On 1 June 2020, the trade association Composites Germany expanded its network as it was joined by the lightweight construction company Leichtbau Baden-Württemberg (Leichtbau BW). Further information can be found in the related press release. 

RAI Automotive Indsutry NL invites you to participate to an exclusive webinar on Recent Developments in Light-weight for Automotive presented by Dr. Michael Effing, Chairman of the German Trade Association AVK and Volker Mathes, Project Manager AVK on June 16th from 10.00 to 11.00 am CET. For your participation, you can register here. 

Recently, AMAC has enlarged its portfolio and offers, as of now, also advisory and consultancy services in Additive Manufacturing. Further information can be found here. 

AMAC, under the lead of Dr. Michael Effing has signed today a cooperation agreement with Alpha Executive Advisory to jointly offer advisory services in Business Coaching, Acquisitions & Divestitures as well as Business Transformation and Crisis Management, also ad interim. In these difficult times of the worldwide COVID-19 crisis, flexible reactions and fast decisions can be of imminent importance, particularly in the fragmented composite industry with its back-bone of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For further details, please read the press release here.

New 3-year Interreg project AACOMA is kicked off: The Euregio Meuse-Rhine is a potential hot-spot for the further development of advanced material and process technologies. Technical Centers and Institutes around Aachen/Germany, Liège/Belgium and Eindhoven/The Netherlands were awarded with this new project AACOMA. Innovative material design and advanced manufacturing provide large opportunities for SMEs. The AACOMA project kick-off took place in Aachen at the Campus of the RWTH University of technology in 1 Q 2020. The aim of the project is to connect SMEs with innovation hot-spots like institutes and technical centers. Seven partners from all three regions will carry the project out: Centexbel is the project leader and gets support by University of Liège, Sirris and Flanders Make from Belgium, as well as Fontys. Please find the related press release here.