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Promoting new and efficient products by using state-of-the-art materials, minimum cost production yielding the highest quality with improved processing, appearance, design and functions with new surfaces.

Companies which cope better, quicker and at a reasonable price with the ever-changing demands that are made on their products such as offering a lighter weight, higher strength, and resilience, specific surface properties, temperature resistance, resistance to other agents, conductibility, insulating capabilities and the possibility of recycling, will prevail.

Product innovations, optimizing processing, demands on quality and costs call for the highest degree of material competence.

The peak of this technological core competence can be found in research and development activities that are closely linked to industry, in the training programs of the University of Leoben, and in non-university R&D facilities closely linked to industry such as the competence centers Material Center Leoben and the Polymer Center Leoben. Companies and institutions, themselves leaders world-wide, are working on the technology and products of tomorrow in close cooperation with these facilities. Specialists in the field of technology transfer arrange for quick and targeted access to state-of-of-the-art knowledge and help companies to locate the best technology partner for finding their solutions.

The range extends from metallurgy and plastics, from composite materials to glass and ceramics.

Numerous highly specialized experts and service facilities are working on functional material design, they are calculating, simulating and optimizing the properties of products and processes. Material technicians examine the non-destructive high-quality goods and guarantee the highest quality of the material.

Even in the case of complementary technologies of machining and processing there is a high density and diversity of top performers: from laser technicians, innovative prototyping experts, coating technicians, deforming engineers, joining technicians and apparatus engineers.

Whoever wants to accomplish the most is right on target within the AREA m styria. Connections are quickly made – in any and every direction. This proves true for contacts made on the spot, as well as for the short distances to any destination in the economic area that is Europe.

Do you need further information on the range of competences of companies in the region, on potential industrial partners, R&D facilities or on topical networks?  Wolfgang Wiesenhofer is at your service with a smile!

Ing. Wolfgang Wiesenhofer Office Kapfenberg: Koloman-Wallisch-Platz 1 A-8605 Kapfenberg T. +43/3862/21234-0 F. +43/3862/21234-19 M. +43/650/837 10 40 E. office@areamstyria.com