Swerim AB

The metals research institute Swerim conducts needs-based industrial research and development concerning metals and their route from raw material to finished product. As a strategic R&D partner, we strengthen our clients’ competitive advantage and contribute to the development of new solutions for processes, materials and products. Swerim offers the Swedish metal industry help to effectively use and make benefit of the large scale facilities MaxIV and ESS, and also several other facilities which are in our area of competence. This can be done as a part in some of our current member research consortia, in bilateral projects or by grant financed research. Swerim has made a focused personnel investment with employment of two experts that are situated in the south of Sweden, close to the facilities. At Swerim in Kista there are also several experts with knowledge in the use of large scale facilities coupled to our material research areas.

Core Competencies

- Material research
- Production- and process research
- Knowledge transfer
- Low alloyed steels
- Stainless steels
- Additive manufacturing
- Joining
- Corrosion

Industry Sectors

- Material producers (e.g. steel, aluminium, brass, slag)
- Material users
- Vehicle producers (e.g. cars, trucks, boats)
- Vehicle users
- Mining industry
- Nuclear waste disposal
- Power generation
- Energy systems

References

Examples of a variety of projects we have performed together with industry and other research facilities at different large scale facilities: • In-situ corrosion studies of additively manufactured stainless steel by ambient pressure X-ray spectroscopy (HIPPIE, MAX IV) • Simultaneous stress and austenite phase mapping in 3rd generation automotive steels using photons (P21.2, Petra III, DESY) • High-resolution characterisation of secondary carbide precipitation in martensitic steels (Sans 2D, ISIS Neutron & Muon Source) • In-situ experiment to improve computational tools for duplex stainless steels (P21 Petra III, DESY).

Company size

Medium

Procurement code(s)

- Mechanical Engineering and raw materials

- Civil engineering, building and technical services