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CFK-VALLEY STADE CONVENTION 2017/2018:
WHEN VISIONS BECOME REALITY

CFK Valley hold their convention every year to exchange new ideas offices in Belgium and Japan, this will be a next international location.
among the members, and welcome the new partners around the This brings us a big step closer to our vision of becoming the world’s
world. The convention 2018 will take place on June 12th - 13th in leading and most innovative composites meta cluster in 2020”.
Stade, Germany.
CFK Valley is not only strengthening its international presence but also
The Main topic 2018 is: "Composite Innovations for Global Mobility" the local partners. This year’s
With the following sessions: CFK-Valley Innovation Award, traditionally awarded during the
evening event on the first day of the convention and endowed with €
(1) Smart Cities and Countryside of the Future 7,500, went to the Flex- Mont project headed by the Fraunhofer
The first part will give an outlook into the future: What are the IFAM. Also other, mainly local partners are involved in the project. The
requirements for the future in cities and on the countryside and what goal of the joint project “FlexMont”, funded by the Lower Saxony
can (carbon) composites contribute. Ministry of Economy, was to significantly reduce assembly time and
(2) Newest Composites Innovations costs for the vertical stabilizer’s CFRP box on the A320 family of
In this session real outstanding innovations which will have a high passenger planes. This includes the future-forward box design
impact on the global mobility will be presented. (VTP-NG – Vertical Tail Plane Next Generation), which assists the
(3) Global Mobility: The Human automation of the assembly process. Dr. Dirk Niermann, Head of
The third session will start with mobility of the human, which means Fraunhofer IFAM at the Research Center CFK Nord, received the prize
overcoming of handicaps by means of carbon composites and as representative of the project consortium deeply moved from Prof.
activities in our free time and sports where composites can play an Dr.-Ing. Axel Herrmann as well as Stades economic promoter Thomas
important role. Friedrichs. The project partners Airbus Germany, CTC GmbH, FFT
(4) Global Mobility on Earth Production Systems, Mahr Metering Systems and QuISS were also very
Global mobility on earth covers the usage of composites in trains, pleased to be honored for the jointly executed project work. After all,
trucks and automobiles. CFK Valley has already set a great goal when founding the association
(5) Global Mobility in the Air in 2004: Reducing the production costs for the CFRP component
In this session there will be a discussion about the future requirements production by industrial automation. With the FlexMont project an
of the aerospace industry, the contribution from our partner country important milestone could be reached.
China and a path how to realize.
Contact
CONVENTION 2017 was held in Stade, Germany on May 17th, 2017.
Ms. Debbie Klijn, CFK Valley e.V.
More than 300 visitors from 20 nations visited the two-day 11th
International CFK-Valley Stade Convention, which took place at the Tel.: +49 174 9484038
E-Mail: klijn@cfk-valley.com
Stadeum in Stade. This year’s winner of the Innovation Award is a
Web: www.cfk-valley.com
project consortium headed by Fraunhofer IFAM, which automates the
assembly of CFRP vertical tails for the first time. Already on the eve of
the convention, a MOU regarding a CFK Valley Korea was signed with
the City of Gumi.

After Korea was already the partner country of last years’ convention
and the city of Gumi became a member of CFK Valley some time ago,
the city’s mayor, Dr. Yoo-Chin Nam, visited the Hanseatic City of
Stade and the CFK-Valley Stade Convention with a 20-person
delegation of business and science people. And he brought a very
special present with him: a Memorandum Of Understanding which
contains the founding of a CFK Valley Korea at the City of Gumi and
which was signed on Monday, on the eve of the convention, at the
“Insel Restaurant” in Stade. The city with more than 400,000
inhabitants is known as the Silicon Valley of South Korea due to the
establishment of companies such as Samsung and LG and has set itself
the goal of becoming one of the top three carbon cities in the world.
The next logical step for both parties is the partnership with CFK
Valley e.V., which is not only the oldest competence network for CFRP
in the world but also the best connected. “This is another important
milestone in the implementation of our internationalization strategy,”
says Dr. Gunnar Merz, CEO of CFK Valley e.V. “After the branch

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