Tooling 2025

Grand Hotel Trento
Piazza Dante 20, 38122 Trento

March 24 – 27, 2025

Welcome to the 13^th International Tooling Conference

The 13th International Tooling Conference will be a continuation of a long established philosophy of providing a forum for practicing engineers and researchers to exchange their ideas and experiences in all aspects in the field of tooling. As weil as giving practitioners an opportunity to keep up-to-date in the latest developments in production and application of tooling materials, the conference will also provide an excellent forum for researchers to present the!r work and enhance it’s transformation to industrial application. The upcoming 13th lnternational Tooling Conference will be dedicated to sustainability in the field of tooling.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of abstracts*: 1 October 2024
Notification of abstract acceptance: 30 October 2024
Deadline for submission of full papers/extended abstract**: 20 December 2024

*Please submit you abstract online via our submission tool on www.tooling2025.org (max. 300 words).
**After acceptance, please submit an extended abstract or a full paper, using the templates

TOOLING 2025 SPECIAL ISSUE OF STFEEL
RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL

HANS BERNS AWARD

During the paper review process, the scientific committee will select some of the submitted papers for submission to the Tooling 2025 special issue of steel research international. These papers should meet the criteria of steel research international regarding quality and novelty and will be subject to the journal’s regular peer review.

Tooling 2025 continues to commemorate Prof. Hans Berns, one of the founding fathers of the Tooling Conference, through the Hans Berns Award. This award will be given to a young researcher who is the author/co-author and presenter of one of the full papers at Tooling 2025. A jury will select the awardee based on the scientific merits of this paper.
*lnterested researchers who are under 35 years old can apply for the HANS BERNS Award 2025.

Supporters

Martin Pei

Executive Vice President & CTO, SSAB AB (Swedish Steel)

“SSAB’s transformation to Fossil Free Steel with the HYBRIT Technology”

Johann Pilthammar

Technical Expert in the area of Simulation Driven Stamping Development at Volvo Cars & Adjunct Assistant – Professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology.

“Towards Virtual Tryout and Digital Twins at Volvo Cars”

Mats Sigvant

Technical Leader in the area of Sheet Metal Forming Simulations, Volvo Cars, Sweden – Adjunct Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden

“Sheet metal forming simulations at Volvo Cars: the past, the present and the future”

Plenary Speakers

Per-Emil Back

R&D Director at Gestamp R&D Sweden

Vincent Grolleau

Senior Scientist at the Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Mechanics and Manufacturing (AIM) at ETH’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (MAVT)

Jan Larsson

Business development manager for aftermarket services at AP&T

Mathias Liewald

Head of the Institute for Forming Technology at the University of Stuttgart/Germany

Martin Pei

Executive Vice President & CTO, SSAB AB (Swedish Steel)

Johan Pilthammar

Technical Expert in the area of Simulation Driven Stamping Development at Volvo Cars & Adjunct Assistant - Professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology.

Mats Sigvant

Technical Leader in the area of Sheet Metal Forming Simulations, Volvo Cars, Sweden - Adjunct Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden