An article describing the Hippocamp project´s main challenges was published in the swedish Aktuell Produktion magazine at the end of 2013. Peter Mihic (Mircona), Qilin Fu (Plasmatrix) and Mihai Nicolescu (Plasmatrix) talk about the project highlights and the expected achievements.

Diad Group has participated on a test day at the Pragelato Ice Track in December 2013 with its own lab cars for low temperature testing. The ice track is a perfect venue for the vehicle testing of components and technologies, as it allows to have extreme conditions on one hand, and on the other to have a full and direct monitoring of the behavior of the tested pieces. These events are attended by technologically highly specialized companies, which represent part of the target audience for our dissemination goals. The Hippocamp project has started to be promoted.

The kick-off meeting of HIPPOCAMP project took place on November 6th and 7th 2013, in Oulu. The main objectives of the meeting were  to establish relations between all partners, provide clarification about administrative issues and define the specific work that each participant was going to carry out during the following months.

Hippocamp project started on the 1st of october. During the 3 years of the project the main objective will be to develop novel manufacturing process required to develop nanocomposites and use them as embedded reinforcements to improve the functional properties of products made of engineered metallic material such as structural components for automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and wind turbine applications.