Steinbeis Transfer Center Techology Foundry Aalen - GTA

• Consulting
• Process and product development, applied research
• Running of seminars and training sessions

• Process development relating to foundry equipment and foundry processes
• Optimization of castings and casting processes
• Training and seminars for people working at foundries
  • Tool design
  • Simulation of foundry processes
  • Planning of foundry processes
• Company-specific assessments, such as damage assessment, product and process development
• Material testing and metallographical analysis

• Manufacturing of prototypes – sand and die casting
• Pilot runs, small batches in sand, die and pressure casting
• Alloy tests
• Sampling and ramping up of pressure casting tools
• On-site consulting
• Damage assessment using X-ray examination and computer tomography
• Material assessments involving magnesium, aluminum and zinc alloys, e.g. mechanical properties at high and low temperatures

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• Light is Right (Transfer 1/2024)
  An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Lothar Kallien, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at Technology Foundry Aalen – GTA, a Steinbeis Transfer Center
• Manufacturing-based planning of castings (Transfer 2/2013)
  Practical training in the foundry lab at Aalen University
• “Students gain tremendously from active Steinbeis enterprises” (Transfer 2/2012)
  A discussion with Professor Dr.-Ing. Lothar Kallien
• Casting science (Transfer 2/2007)
  A Steinbeis Transfer Center produces casting prototypes