School on S&T mechanics, metallurgy & green processing.

June 30-July 02, 2025
AGH University of Krakow, Poland

Targeted audience: phd students, postdocs, researchers and experts from Network partners.

To REGISTER contact netcastpl40@agh.edu.pl – limited number of places.

Green Castings manufacturing is an objective that must be supported by excellent science and adopted by all foundries/industries with a view to reducing the environmental impact of product and production processes. With increasingly stringent environmental regulations, there is a growing need for efficient production planning models that consider the trade-off between technology return and environmental costs.

One of the key ideas of NetCastPL4.0 is knowledge exchange. Through the Knowledge Exchange Pillar actions, experts and partners reinforce human capital through training and cross-fertilization, implement skills and enhance the know-how, as well as create new professional skills. The 2025 school focuses on ‘Mechanics, metallurgy and green processing of lightweight castings’. The three-day school deals with the following topics

• Fundamentals and ideas
• Production processes
• Utilization

Experts from the project partners and the wider network welcome you to the event.

30 June 2025 Fundamentals and ideas

09:00 – 10:30 Introduction and fundamentals of lightweight castings (Franco Bonollo, University of Padua)
10:45 – 11:30 Fundamentals of non-ferrous alloy solidification (Maurizio Vedani, Politecnico di Milano)
11:45 – 12:30 Fundamentals of ferrous alloy solidification (Kalle Jalava, Aalto University)
Break
13:30 – 14:15 Tensile Mechanical properties of thin sections (Giuliano Angella, CNR-ICMATE)
14:30 – 15:15 Fatigue properties of ductile cast irons (Riccardo Donnini, CNR-ICMATE)
15:30 – 16:15 FEM Modeling (solidification/welding/stress) with thin sections (Łukasz Madej, AGH University of Krakow )
16:30 – 17:15 Casting simulation in lightweighting (Janusz Lelito and Pawel Zak, AGH University of Krakow )

01 July 2025 Production processes

09:00 – 9:45 Molding materials used in foundry practice
(Katarzyna Major-Gabrys, AGH University of Krakow )
9:45 – 10:30 Molding processes in thin wall castings (Kalle Jalava, Aalto University)
10:45 – 12:30 Metallurgical processes in ferrous alloys (Riccardo Donnini, CNR-ICMATE)
Break
13:30 – 14:15 Castings defects (Franco Bonollo, University of Padua)
14:30 – 16:00 EU regulation pressures to the foundry industry – the status of the Finnish foundy actions (Juhani Orkas, Association of Finnish Foundry Industry)
16:00 – 17:00 Discussion on the topics

02 July 2025 Utilization

09:00 – 9:45 Potential of ADI in lightweighting (Pekka Kemppainen, Meehanite)
10:00 – 10:45 Utilization aspects of lightweight non-ferrous castings (Matti Niemi, Novacast Oy)
11:00 – 11:45 Integrity assessment of castings via tensile strain hardening analysis (Giuliano Angella, CNR-ICMATE)
12:00 – 12:45 Isothermal Ductile Iron (IDI): Assessment of the Proposal for the Inclusion into the European Standard (Riccardo Zanardi – Zanardi Fonderie S.p.A.)
Break
13:45 – 15:15 Green technologies and developments – Towards a Roadmap for green technologies (Kalle Jalava and Nurul Anwar, Aalto University)
15:30 – 17:15 Discussion and roundtable on Green technologies utilization