Press release

11/30/2021 | The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Joining Processes 2021 (AJP) was held this year from October 21-22 in Sintra, Portugal. The international conference was organized and chaired by Professor Lucas da Silva from the Faculty of Mechanical…

10/26/2021 | This year's HERBST-Uni, for the first time for all high school students, took place at the University of Paderborn from October 11-15, 2021. Within the framework of this trial study, prospective students were able to attend exciting lectures and…

10/26/2021 | On September 21 and 22, 2021, the 12th PhD student seminar on adhesive bonding technology took place. This year, 11 PhD students from seven universities and Fraunhofer institutes together with their professors and group leaders accepted the LWF's…

07/12/2021 | The project award of the European Research Association for Sheet Metal Processing e.V. (EFB) was presented for the first time by EFB President Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Linnig (Schuler Pressen GmbH) at a digital conference due to the pandemic. The EFB Project…

05/17/2021 | Following the publicly funded research project "Method development for damage modeling for numerical process simulation of mechanical joining processes (AiF-No.: 19452 N)", which was successfully processed and completed at the Laboratory of Materials…

03/17/2021 | The two scientists Michael Ditz and Dr.-Ing. Jan Ditter from the Laboratory for Material and Joining Technology (LWF) under the direction of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerson Meschut have developed an evaluation system for users of adhesive bonding technology…

03/12/2021 | The research and development project "Concepts for the resource-efficient and safe production of lightweight structures (KORESIL)", in which socio-technical solutions for process chains with closed material cycles are considered, started at the…

03/10/2021 | More than 200 participants from industry and research met at the 21st Colloquium "Joint Research in Adhesive Bonding Technology" on March 02 and 03, 2021. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the colloquium could not take place in Würzburg as…

02/09/2021 | In 2020, despite the challenging situation of the Corona pandemic, the Laboratory of Materials and Joining Technology (LWF) succeeded in setting a new record of third-party funds spent. In comparison, a total of 3.0 million euros was spent in 2017…

01/20/2021 | Leading technologies for the energy revolution - New research project „Concept development of a steel battery housing with special consideration to the joining technology and the corrosion protection (Steel Battery Housing)“

01/14/2021 | With the collaborative research project METEOR (Methods and technologies for validating and optimizing the resource efficiency of process networks in the production of lightweight structures), a new research project is starting at the Laboratory of…

01/08/2021 | Prof. Hahn, the founder of the Laboratory for Materials and Joining Technology (LWF) at the University of Paderborn, celebrated his 80th birthday.

12/18/2020 | Detmold, 18 December 2020 - For the 16th time, Jowat is honouring first-class work in adhesives research. The prize, which is awarded every two years, goes to Dr Paulina Sierak in 2020.

12/16/2020 | The LWF team wishes all students, partners in research and industry a Merry Christmas, relaxing holidays and a good start into 2021!

11/13/2020 | The "Technology Symposium for mechanical joining technology" of DVS, EFB and FOSTA has been a fixed date in the joining industry calendar for many years. It was actually planned that the joint colloquium would take place this year in Rostock with the…