During the first day we were updated on research results for 2018 within SFI Metal Production in three sessions: Aluminium, Si/Mn/Ti  and Environment. A lot of results were presented by the researcher working in the Centre, thanks to all of you. Worth mentioning this time is the student work “An overview of Norwegian metal production” presented by Leiv Kolbeinsen.  Four students have used this summer to update the database for the Norwegian metal industry. The industry participants showed interest for this student work and are looking forward to read the final report.

The second day’s focus was on industry, digitalisation and innovation. Thanks to Vincent Deborde (GE Power Digital), Nina Helene Omdahl (Alcoa), Markus Reuter (Helmholtz-Institute Freiberg), Roger Strøm (RCN, Prosess21) and Eirik Manger (Hydro) for interesting and enthusiastic presentations. At the very last session we focus once more on the innovation potential for the industry in SFI Metal Production. We appreciated that Marit Dolmen (Elkem), Haavard Elstad (TiZIr) and Ketil Rye (Alcoa) made this focus in their presentations, which is very important for the coming Midway evaluation.

Thank you very much for the participation, and see you again in the end of April 2019.