News from the Group

Dr. Bo Rogberg, Senior Expert and Strategic Advisor at Sandvik Materials Technology, has been appointed Adjunct Professor at KTH within the area Casting of Metals.

Sandvik has offered solutions for the automotive industry since the 1940s. The customer challenges have evolved since then, but the development has never been faster than what it is today, when environmental concern drives the progress relentlessly.

Sandvik and KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, have signed a strategic partnership agreement to create an even stronger relationship regarding research activities.

On Wednesday, 5 February 2014, a ceremony was held to prepare for the new research and development (R&D) center in Pune, India.

On 15 November, Sandvik's Bo Rogberg was awarded Professor Gunnar Wallqvist's prestigious gold medal by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. The medal is awarded every tenth year to honor a prominent person who has made a major contribution to engineering and produced practical applications from research, but never, according to KTH, "to a typical desktop or laboratory researcher."

Besides dealing with a global economic downturn, Sandvik in India had to cope with slowing economic growth and inflation in 2012. Still, the outlook is bright.

Innovation is strong at Sandvik. In 2012, 200 researchers from all five business areas met and were challenged to imagine innovations that would drive the company's growth.