For the eleventh time, the Institute of Production Engineering and Machine Tools (IFW) at Leibniz Hannover University will on 22 and 23 September 2011 in Hanover be hosting its prestigious conference entitled "New Production Technologies in the Aerospace Industry". This is the first time the conference is being held at the EMO Hannover.

As was the case last year, the event is being co-organised by the nationwide Machining Innovations Network (MIN). "It makes us very proud to know that our conference will this year be part of the world's biggest trade fair for the metalworking sector," says Professor Berend Denkena, Director of the IFW. "We will be offering visitors to the EMO from the aerospace industry a top-class forum for acquiring new information and exchanging news and views about the status of research work on an international level."

Besides the metallic materials (particularly titanium and aluminium), fibre-reinforced plastics and material combinations will this year, too, be a major focus. The agenda includes new machinery and production technologies, plus automation concepts in the aerospace sector, and the planning and repair of CFRP components.

The focus on lightweight construction materials and their combinations is no accident: in aircraft construction, the trend towards new, lightweight, high-strength materials and material combination continues unbroken. One example here is the use of titanium alloys for an aircraft's fuselage structure in conjunction with carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics. And for the undercarriage as well. A challenge for aircraft manufacturers, but also for tool and machine tool producers. The market is demanding tool concepts for drilling and milling high-temperature-resistant metals and composite materials, new machine tool concepts for cost-efficient machining of titanium, and strategies for 5-axis machining. With these requirements, the aviation sector is evolving into a crucial driver for technological developments covering the whole gamut of metal-cutting processes.

On the first day of the conference, Thursday 22 September, following the plenary lectures, internationally acknowledged experts from the industrial sectors and the academic research community will be presenting their solutional approaches in the two parallel sessions entitled "Machine Technologies for Metallic Materials" and "Automation and CFRP Production". The day winds down with a shared evening event on the exhibition grounds.

Friday, 23 September, begins with a plenary lecture on "Up-to-the-future materials for aerospace applications", before in parallel Sessions Three and Four the focus moves to "Manufacturing Technologies for CFRP and Titanium" and "Process Planning and Repair of CFRP Components".

To supplement the conference, the Machining Innovations Network at the EMO Hannover 2011 will be presenting a special show entitled "Milestones in cost-effective titanium component production". It will showcase current highlights in the metal-cutting production of titanium structural components, the results of innovative composite-material projects and technologically outstanding solutional approaches.

To obtain further information on and register for the "New ManufacturingTechnologies in the Aerospace Industry" conference, please contact Dipl.-Ing. Eike Hasselberg at the Institute of Production Engineering and Machine Tools, Tel. +49 (0)511 762 18074, hasselberg@ifw.uni-hannover.de