‘Forwarder 1450 F’ Gremo AB - Sweden
INNOVATIONS IN HIGH
STRENGTH STEEL The winner of the 2012 SSAB Swedish Steel Prize will be announced on November 15. Four finalists have been nominated for the prize for leading designs in high strength steel. The jury has chosen innovations for the packaging and transportation of metallic scrap, light and sustainable train seats, a truck suspension system, and a forwarder – a light timber transportation vehicle.
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he Swedish Steel Prize is awarded for innovative designs made of high strength steels. The prize is intended to inspire, stimulate and disseminate knowledge about high strength steels and the possibilities they offer to develop lighter, safer and more environmentally-friendly products. “The quality has been consistently high and it has been a difficult task for the jury to select the four nominees. The large number of applications from 26 countries 14 Industry Europe
demonstrates the high level of interest in high strength steels,” says jury chairman KG Ramström, chief technical officer, SSAB.
The finalists are: Scrap handling system ‘Mi-slide’ A-Ward Attachments Ltd - New Zealand Recycling, which involves the use and transportation of metallic scrap, is extremely important from an environmental perspective. A-ward has designed a flexible and innova-
tive system comprising two units made of high strength steel which compress and pack metallic scrap in containers. Unsorted scrap is fed in at one end by the equipment and compacted scrap is injected directly into a container in the other, which provides for rapid and efficient loading of scrap. This results in increased profitability. This is an elegant and innovative system solution for scrap compacting and loading of unsorted scrap in a way which is efficient
