Services
Industry-ready solutions for sustainable metallurgy
SUMMSEED is open to collaborations!
We provide industrially-oriented knowledge, processing guideliness and demostrators up to pilot plant testing to help steelmakers, technology providers and end users to adopt sustainable products and circular processing routes with lower risk and faster time-to-market
Sustainable alloy design
We offer access to validated steel concepts that balance performance, cost and sustainability
Casting & Directed energy deposition
The industry can benefit from process optimization, best-practise recommendations and quality criteria under realistic conditions.
Use-case oriented research
SUMMSEED develops ans tests a cone-crusher components as flagship use case, providing real performance data on wear, impact resistance and lifetime extensión in demanding mining conditions.
From TRL 3 to TRL 5
SUMMSEED bridges the gap between lab-scale metallurgy and industrial deployment, de-risking the adoption of Medium Mn steels and DED remanufacturing in heavy industry
Services for material and Process optimization
- Casting
- Directed energy deposition
- Wire production
- Metal additive manufacturing
- Component prototyping and proof-of-concept
- Microstructure characterization by advanced microscopy
- Alloy design
- Metallography
- Microstructure kinetics by advanced in situ synchrotron techniques
- Non-destructive testing
- Determination of mechanical properties
- Formability
- Heat treatment technology
- Tribology
- Fracture analysis
- …among others
Talk to us to explore our capabilities!
From research to industrial impact
To maximise industrial uptake, the SUMMSEED consortium offers practical guidelines, workshops and direct engagement with companies to support the implementation of project results in real production environments. At the same time, its findings and assessments provide valuable input for policymakers and standardisation bodies, helping to shape frameworks that recognise and promote circular, low-carbon steel solutions.
