The 15th Stamping Technology Congress will take place on April 7 and 8, 2025 at the Westfalenhallen Congress Center in Dortmund.
This year, the two-day program with presentations by experts from industry and research will focus on two main topics: “Tools – our path to economic success” and “Intelligent and innovative quality assurance”. The current challenges facing the industry will also feature prominently. The interdisciplinary part of the program on the morning of the second day of the congress will focus on the topic of “Social media – customer acquisition and retention as well as recruiting” with two presentations and a subsequent panel discussion. Among other things, the diverse possibilities of LinkedIn for SMEs will be examined.
The traditional evening event on the first day provides an informal setting for an extensive exchange of experiences and networking.
Over 200 experts and interested parties from German-speaking countries and neighboring countries are expected to attend. A trade exhibition of over 30 well-known companies from the industry will accompany the punching congress.
Experts from research, associations and industry
As with all congresses since 2009, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Volk and Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hoffmann from the Chair of Forming Technology and Foundry Engineering (utg) at the Technical University of Munich are responsible for the content of the event. They are supported by an advisory board, which includes numerous other experts from associations and industry. These include Mathias Bihler (Otto Bihler GmbH), Ralf Duerrwächter (VDWF & FDWF), Patrick Großhaus (Egon Großhaus GmbH), Dr. Michael Hagedorn (VDFI), Bernhard Jacobs (IBU), Achim Kuhli (Bruderer GmbH), and Markus Schaltegger (Qcision GmbH). The congress is also supported by the “Industrieverband Blechumformung” (IBU), the “Institut für Umformtechnik der mittelständischen Wirtschaft GmbH” (IFU) and the Dortmund Economic Development Agency. This year, for the first time, the renowned stamping congress is being organized by the Dortmund event agency Strategiex.