THE GREENLINE CONSORTIUM
GREENLINE brings together nine organisations from five European countries, combining research excellence, industrial manufacturing, technology development and market expertise to advance electrified in-line heat treatment for forging and casting.
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OUR APPROACH
A complete innovation
chain for real industrial impact
GREENLINE has been designed around the complete innovation chain required to develop, demonstrate and exploit a new approach to industrial heat treatment.
Research organisations and universities provide expertise in metallurgy, materials science, modelling and environmental assessment. Technology providers develop the ultra-fast cooling and electrified furnace systems. Steelmaking, forging and casting partners ensure that the technology responds to real materials, production and quality requirements. Industrial integration expertise connects these technologies into a complete process, while communication and exploitation activities support knowledge transfer and future market uptake.
This complementary structure enables GREENLINE to move beyond laboratory research and validate its technologies under representative industrial conditions.
Research organisations and universities
Metallurgy, materials science, modelling and environmental assessment
Technology providers
Ultra-fast cooling and electrified furnace systems
Steelmaking, forging & casting partners
Real materials, production and quality requirements
Industrial integration
From individual technologies to a complete process
Communication and exploitation
Knowledge transfer and future market uptake
Validated solutions under industrial conditions
REAL IMPACT
The Team
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AZTERLAN is a research and technology organisation specialising in metallurgy, materials and manufacturing-process innovation. As GREENLINE coordinator, AZTERLAN leads project coordination and contributes its expertise in metallurgical analysis, process development and validation.
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CIE Legazpi brings industrial forging expertise and real production requirements to GREENLINE. It leads the definition of the architecture and technical requirements for the in-line treatment concept and provides the project’s forging demonstration environment.
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Betsaide contributes industrial foundry expertise and provides GREENLINE’s casting demonstration environment. The company manufactures safety-critical cast-iron components for demanding industrial and vehicle applications.
Sidenor brings steelmaking expertise and knowledge of special steel grades for demanding forging applications. Within GREENLINE, it supports the selection, evaluation and optimisation of steel grades suitable for accelerated in-line thermal cycles.
EEIP is a European business and policy platform focused on industrial energy efficiency and decarbonisation. Within GREENLINE, EEIP leads communication and dissemination and supports stakeholder engagement, exploitation, business modelling and future learning activities.
IOB contributes industrial furnace engineering, manufacturing and testing expertise to GREENLINE. The company leads the development and set-up of the project’s flexible electric furnace, designed to integrate with the ultra-fast cooling system.
Tecnodelta contributes engineering and system-integration expertise for industrial thermal processes. Within GREENLINE, it supports the development and integration of the ultra-fast cooling technology with the electric furnace and wider production environment.
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AGH University contributes advanced expertise in computational metallurgy, thermomechanical processing and the modelling of phase transformations.
Within GREENLINE, AGH develops material modelling for cast iron and supports the prediction of microstructural evolution during the accelerated thermal cycles required for the ADI casting application.
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RWTH Aachen University contributes expertise in thermal simulation, multiphysics modelling, life-cycle assessment and sustainable process evaluation. RWTH leads GREENLINE’s advanced modelling activities, developing thermal models for high-speed cooling and supporting the environmental and techno-economic assessment of the new process.