Call for Abstracts: Great Designs in Steel 2024

November 15, 2023   Welcome to MetalForming Automotive, where you’ll find a variety of news and information from this quickly evolving industry, including links to the latest information from our industry partners: AISI, Automation Alley, CAR and MEMA (formerly OESA). Please share any questions or comments by emailing editorial director Brad Kuvin.   Call for Abstracts: Great Designs in Steel 2024 The American Iron and Steel Institute invites abstract submissions for presentation during the 22nd annual Great Designs in Steel (GDIS) symposium, slated for Wednesday, May 22, 2024, at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, MI.   SPONSORED   MEMA—The Vehicle Suppliers Association We represent the largest manufacturing sector in the United States—the vehicle supplier industry—with more than 4.8 million jobs. Jobs that keep emergency vehicles on the road. Help parents pick their kids up from school. Get people to work. Bring us home safely to each other. A legacy of people who’ve made mobility accessible, for nearly 120 years and counting. And for all that Original Equipment Suppliers and Aftermarket Suppliers do to serve our nation’s people and its future, we’ve created an association with a single purpose and a solid promise: to deliver the strength and certainty you need to take action for yourself, your business, and your industry. We do that through a robust membership designed to champion and advance your best interests.   Tour Eight U.S. Toyota Production Facilities Watch: This 10-min. video takes us on a tour of eight U.S. Toyota facilities, including the first and largest: Georgetown, KY, for a look at the plant’s tandem-press stamping operations; and Toyota Indiana (Princeton), a recently renovated 4.5-million sq.-ft. facility, where we get an up-close look at robotic laser-welding operations.    GM to Help Develop EM-Motor Magnets Free of Rare Elements CNN and other news outlets have reported that General Motors, in efforts to reduce reliance on China for rare-earth elements used in electric-vehicle batteries, has partnered with Niron Magnetics to develop electric-motor magnets made from iron and nitrogen.   SPONSORED   PMA Membership Position your company as an industry leader when you utilize PMA resources—ITR Econ Trends reports, trade publications, One Voice and FABTECH trade shows. A PMA membership will provide your company and all of its employees with a range of valuable industry resources that are designed to help you become more connected, more informed, more efficient, more competitive and ultimately more profitable.   Continental Leading a Project Called “Digitalization of the Industrialization Process in the Automotive and Supplier Industries” Continental AG has formed a consortium with a group of IT and process-optimization companies, universities and others to oversee a 3-yr. project focused on digitalization of the automotive industry. The project goal: transfer production plants into the digital world so that new production lines will be planned, simulated and operated digitally, allowing them to keep pace with faster development cycles, complex supply chains and changing customer requirements.   Still Time to Register for Hot Stamping Conference MetalForming magazine’s Hot Stamping Experience and Tech Tour—conference and plant tour—returns this November to Holland, MI, featuring seven technical presentations and a plant tour of the Holland facility of GNS North America. Just added to the list of speakers: Tesla engineer Tom Ausmann.   Automotive Industry News New Chassis and Body-Parts Plant to Open in Middle Georgia Simwon America Corp. Ramps Up Hot Stamping in Austin, TX Automotive-Tooling Outlook: Bullish, But… Belvidere Plant reopening to be Part of Stellantis/UAW Settlement SSAB and Gestamp Partner to Develop Fossil-Free Steel for Automotive Parts   Partner Content From AISI: Learn why carbon tariffs are needed in a new Steel Market Update op-ed by AISI president and CEO Kevin Dempsey. From CAR: Automotive Industry Hot Topics with CAR President and CEO Alan Amici. Up for discussion: tentative agreements to end the UAW strike; the pause in EV production; autonomous vehicles. From Automation Alley: Trade Mission to India, January 26-February 3, 2024 From MEMA: Hybrid event: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Metrics to Drive Action   As Seen in MetalForming Magazine Robot-Tended Press at Work in Monterrey "Go Big or Go Home," But What if "Big" is Home? Recent Developments in Aluminum Grades   Partners     Subscribe to this enewsletter   MetalForming magazine is the official publication of Precision Metalforming Association. PMA Services Inc. 6363 Oak Tree Blvd. | Independence, OH 44131-2500 | USA 216-901-8800

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