Sintef Industry

03 Sep 2020

SINTEF is the largest independent contract research organization in Scandinavia and the 4th largest in Europe with approximately 2000 employees (70% of them are researchers). It aims to be a world leading research institute. SINTEF works closely with industry in development of advanced materials, products, processes and new tools, and seeks out new, environmentally friendly processing methods that will increase productivity and raise quality standards. SINTEF is one of the top 20 research organizations in the European Framework Programs with more than 273 projects between 2007 and 2013. The department for Metal Production and Processing in Trondheim will be mostly involved in the SisAl project.

In SisAl Pilot, SINTEF will perform tasks dealing with analysis, characterisation and selection of material mixes, assessment of melting properties (WP1), demo-support and design of experiments (DoE), statistical based evaluation (WP2), and hydrometallugical small scale test in WP3.