Dates announced for 21st Plansee Seminar
May 29, 2024
The 21st Plansee Seminar has been announced for June 1-6, 2025, at the Plansee Group’s facility in Reutte, Austria. Returning to its usual four-year cycle, the conference will enable participants to openly discuss all aspects of refractory metals and hard materials.
The Plansee Seminar will cover a variety of topics including applications, materials, processes, sustainability and testing methods. These will be addressed in key-note lectures and contributed papers, in a number of oral and poster sessions.
Presentations will include the latest developments in the following applications:
- Refractory Metals and Composites
- Transportation
- Electronics
- Thermal management
- Lighting technology
- Medical technology
- Energy conversion and distribution
- Radiation shielding
- Chemical engineering
- Coating technology
- Joining technology
- Metal, glass, plastic, and ceramics production
- High-temperature furnaces and devices
- Emerging fields
- PM Hard Materials
- Wear parts
- Machining of metals, composites, graphitic materials, wood, and stone
- Precision tooling
- Chipless forming
- Mining
- Constructions
- Joining technology
- Emerging fields
The event also coincides with the 100th anniversary of the discovery of rhenium, one of the rarest elements and an important alloying element, especially for tungsten and molybdenum. To celebrate the occasion, there will be a number of special lectures on scientific and industrial topics relating to the metal.
The Plansee Seminar First Circular is now published and can be downloaded here.
