EPMA Distinguished Service Award

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  Dr.-Ing. Ingo Cremer

  Mr. Ingo Cremer is GM of CREMER Thermoprozessanlagen GmbH as well as CEO of CREMER Polyfour GmbH and CREMER Engineering GmbH.

  Mr. Cremer has more than 30 years' experience in the field of industrial furnaces for PM and MIM. Since his Master Graduation in Science and Furnace Construction in 1996, he has managed the family-owned enterprise together with his brother Harald Cremer.

  His professional expertise in customers' needs and market development and conditions make Ingo Cremer a crucial player for both success and growth of the companies.

  In 2007, Ingo Cremer had the honor of being appointed President of the EPMA. He held this office until 2013.

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  Mr Thomas Lambrecht

  Thomas Lambrecht studied chemical engineering at the Munich technical university from 1978 until 1984, he started with a company in Munich that designed and realized ceramic plants all over the world as a project engineer. During that time he spent several years in Tunisia, Algeria and China building 2 tile, a brick and 2 sanitary ware factories.

  Then he moved to a tile press manufacturer in Trier as a General Manager for 4 years.

  In 1995 he joined Dorst Technologies, first as a sales manager and since 2000 as Managing Director.

  He became a member of EPMA in 1996, more than 20 years ago. Since then he has served on the Council and he is currently a member of the Board.

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  Dr Cèsar Molins

  Cèsar Molins graduated as an industrial engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona and continued his graduate studies obtaining the Master’s and then the PhD degree in Nuclear Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida in the USA in 1981.

  Even though his main academic subject was nuclear reactor neutronics, he also studied metallurgy and right after his graduation he entered the Powder Metallurgy world in AMES, a family-owned company co-founded by his father, where he became the General Manager in 1985. Thus, he has now worked in the world of PM for 35 years.

  From the very beginning of his work at AMES Cèsar became very involved in international PM associations, presenting papers at PM conferences in Europe, America and Asia and his mixture of technological passion and managerial duties made him a worldwide ambassador of Powder Metallurgy.

  In 1998 he chaired the first World PM conference fully organized by EPMA in Granada, Spain. He became the third EPMA President in 2001, after sitting for some years on the EPMA Council and Board where he still serves today. His international involvement brought him to the International Liaison Committee of MPIF and he spoke on behalf of European PM in the USA, Brazil, India, Turkey, Japan and Korea. He received the Ivor Jenkins award in 1998 from the Institute of Metals in the UK, the Fellowship award of PMAI in 2011, the Distinguished Service Award of the MPIF in 2015 and the APMI International Fellowship award in 2016. He was a strong promoter of the joint effort of EPMA, MPIF and JPMA to develop the Global PM Property Database, which was developed during his presidency of EPMA. He also chaired EPMA’s Euro PM 2011 Congress & Exhibition in Barcelona.

  His several advisory duties in different governmental bodies in Spain and Catalonia have helped to promote the image of industry in general and of PM in particular. He is a long standing member of the Board of the Spanish Association of Automobile Component Manufacturers and a member of the Industry Commission in the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce where again he represents the PM industry.

  Under his leadership, AMES, the company he manages, has grown to 140 Million Euro turnover and 7 plants in 4 countries and 3 continents. Following its strong technological vocation, AMES has developed cooperation with universities and technological centres in Spain, Europe and Asia.

  It can be said that Cèsar Molins has been a worldwide promoter of the PM industry, technology and of international cooperation.

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  Dr Brian James

  Brian James started his involvement in the field of powder metallurgy in 1968 while working on the development of dispersion strengthened zirconium alloys for his PhD thesis at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the UK.

  In 1973 he started work as a Development Engineer at Round Oak Steel Works in Brierley Hill, West Midlands where he developed a process and designed a plant for producing spherical particles to act as the carrier in Xerographic copiers.

  In late 1976 he joined GKN Technology in Wolverhampton as a Product Development Engineer where he provided technical support for the Powder Forging Division of GKN working on projects such as the development of powder forged connecting rods for the Porsche 928.

  In early 1981, Brian and his family moved to the USA where he joined Hoeganaes Corporation as Manager of Product Development in the R&D department, again working on the development of powder forged products and ferrous PM materials for
  high-density applications.  He transferred to the Sales and Marketing Department in 1985 and provided technical support for customers in his position as Manager Application Engineering for PM and PF Products, covering North and South America.  In 1999 he assumed responsibility for international technical support working with customers in Europe, Asia, and South America. He retired from Hoeganaes Corporation in July 2013.  During his time at Hoeganaes Brian developed a Ferrous PM Training Program for both customers and users of PM parts and he conducted training sessions on a global basis.

  Brian has been a speaker at the EPMA Summer School since 2005 and has presented technical papers at numerous PM conferences.  He is Chairman of the MPIF Standards Committee and the MPPA Standards Committee.  He was active for many years with ISO/TC 119 (drafted the revision of materials standard ISO 5755 and the MIM materials standard ISO 22068) and continues to be active in the development of standards for PM with ASTM Committee B09.

  He was Technical Co-Chair of the 2014 PM World Congress in Orlando and has been Technical Co-Chair of the MPIF Basic Short Course on Powder Metallurgy since 2014. Brian took over as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Powder Metallurgy in 2015.

  Brian is a Fellow of APMI International, a Fellow of ASTM, and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and received the Ivor Jenkins Medal from them in 2014.

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  Prof Dr Lorenz Sigl

  Lorenz Sigl holds an engineering diploma and a Ph.D. in materials science, both from the University of Leoben, Austria. After a post-doctoral year at UCSB in Santa Barbara, he started his industrial career in engineered ceramics in 1988 when he was employed as a development engineer at WACKER Chemie in Kempten, Germany.

  From 1988 until 2001 Lorenz held various responsibilities at WACKER including positions in FEM simulation, material development, production, sales and R&D management. Until 2007 he was with Sinterstahl GmbH, now PMG, in Füssen, Germany as director of R&D. In his current position at Plansee SE in Reutte, Austria he serves as Head of Corporate R&D in the Plansee High Performance Materials  Division. Since 2012 he has been an honorary professor at the Technical University Dresden giving lectures on cemented carbides and refractory metals. He received the Georg-Sachs price of the German Society for Materials (DGM) in 1992 and the Skaupy price of the "Ausschuß für Pulver­metallurgie" in 2012.

  During these years Sigl contributed to various topics in engineered ceramics, PM steels, refractory metals and composite materials by working on

  • new materials including structural and functional ceramics, cemented carbides and borides, Cr-alloyed PM steels,and hydrogen separation materials
  • new processes (powder injection and extrusion molding of metals and ceramics, laser melting and 3D printing, spark plasma sintering) and
  • new products made by the powder/sintering route, most recently on components for solid oxide fuel cells.

  He has authored and co-authored 140 papers and patents about various powder metallurgy related subjects and serves in the editorial boards of the International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials and the International Journal of Powder Metallurgy.

  Currently, Lorenz is Chairman of the Plansee Seminar and Vice President of the Christian Doppler Research Association in Austria. He is active as a Kurator at the Fraunhofer Institute for Materials Mechanics IWM and as a member of the EPMA council. In 2014 he co-chaired the EPMA conference in Salzburg.

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  Dipl-Ing Jan Tengzelius

  Jan Tengzelius started his career in powder metallurgy in 1974 when he was employed as development engineer at Höganäs AB. Before that he worked at the Institute for Metals Research in Stockholm after being graduated at the Royal Institute of Technology in the field of metallurgy.

  From 1977 until 1983 Jan was in charge of product development at Höganäs AB with focus on high strength sintered steels such as phosphorous alloyed materials and diffusion alloyed powders in the Distaloy family. He was also instrumental in the development of bonded powder mixes and soft magnetic materials.

  In 1983 he took over as Managing Director of the development company Cold Isostatic Pressing Systems. In this position he was responsible for development and technology sales of this forming method primarily for the production of PM cylinder liners.

  During the years 1989 – 2006 he was the R&D Manager for Höganäs AB followed by some years as Technical Director for Future Technologies, a department that lies within the Höganäs AB Global Development area, with responsibility for development of technologies outside of the company’s existing business areas. Indeed he is now acting as an advisor to this department.

  During these recent years he contributed to the growth of PM especially by developing metal powders and consolidation methods for highly loaded components, working in close partnership with research organizations, customers and users of PM components. Jan was also heading the development of the soft magnetic composites, designated Somaloy, especially suited for design of electrical motors and generators having low energy losses and high torque.

  Jan is a former member of the EPMA council and board and was also active as chairman of the powder metallurgy group of Jernkontoret in Sweden and as a secretary of the ISO TC 119 sub committee on PM. He is a Kurator at Fraunhofer Institute IFAM and a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

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  Dr José Torralba

  José Torralba was born in Melilla, Spain, in 1959 and is married with two children. He studied as a Metallurgical Engineer at the Technical University of Madrid graduating in 1982 and obtaining his doctorate in 1985.

  In 1986 he started at the Escuela Politécnica Superior del Ejército in Madrid as an Armament and Material Engineer and after ten years in that organisation he became head of the Powder Metallurgy Research Group  at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid.

  In 1996 he obtained his professorship at UC3M thereafter in 1997 he was promoted to become Head of Materials Science and Engineering Department. He became University Vice Rector for Infrastructures in 2000 and Vice Rector for Research and Innovation in 2004. Since 2008 he has been the Deputy Director of the Institute IMDEA Materials also based at UC3M.

  His main scientific-technical field of interest is Powder Metallurgy. Since 1982 he has worked with different sintered materials families and he has been involved in technologies like mechanical alloying or metal injection moulding. He has published more than 400 scientific papers and has supervised nineteen PhD thesis plus fifty Diploma Thesis.

  José has received a number of academic awards including the “Professor Fryderyk Staub" Award by the Silesian University of Technology (Poland) and the Slovak Academy of Sciences Award.

  He has also been awarded honorary Doctorates by the University of Craiova and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania.

  José has participated in more than 60 international scientific committees of International Conferences and been Chairman of seven of them including EuroPM 2003 in Valencia. In addition he has been involved in 35 competitive research projects and has managed many research grants with industry, including the Höganäs Chair in Powder Metallurgy.

  He is currently European Regional Editor of the Journal of Materials Processing Technology and the Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. In spite of all the above in his spare time has also managed to run in several international marathon races.

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  Dr John Dunkley

  John Dunkley was born in Hull, England in 1946. He went to high school near London and to Cambridge University. Initially studying chemical engineering, he switched to metallurgy. He joined the research department with Davy Ashmore Limited to work on continuous casting, followed in 1971 by running a spray forming project with Prof A R E Singer. In 1972 he was asked to take over a new project and he was sent to his first PM conference with only two days’ notice.

  The whole technology of PM fascinated him, and he worked on water atomisation and on the compaction and extrusion of high speed steels. Between 1974 and 1981, when the R&D department of Davy Ashmore moved from Bedford to Sheffield he became Manager of the company’s PM division. Then in 1992 the PM division of what was now Davy McKee closed and he established his own company Atomising Systems Ltd where, today, 50 staff work in a 3,000sq.m facility.

  John has been a Fellow of the UK’s famous IoM3 for many years and before retiring his position earlier this year he chaired the IoM3 Particulate Engineering Committee (which covers PM) for the last six years.  He has also been Editor of the well-known IoM3 journal Powder Metallurgy.

  John continued to invent and research throughout his career.  He has published over forty conference papers on PM and atomisation and in 1994 wrote “Atomization of Melts” for Oxford University Press with Prof Andrew Yule. For the last ten years he has given a course on atomisation of powders with his co-author in Manchester, which has been attended by powder specialists from around the world. In 2011, he received a PhD from Cambridge University for a body of publications in his field of atomisation.

  Attendees of the Bremen SDMA conference will know of his New Orleans Jazz activities, which now include playing tuba and occasional vocals. He also sings classical music with local choirs in Sheffield.

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  Dr Bryan Roebuck

  Bryan Roebuck was born in Yorkshire in 1946 and studied at the University of  Manchester Institute of Science and Technologyy where he obtained a first class Hons BSc in Metallurgy followed by a PhD in 1970 on the subject of “Divacancies in dilute Aluminium alloys“. Following University his first employment was NPL , the UK’s National Measurement Institute, which he joined in 1970 in the role of research scientist and where he has remained until today.
  Therefore Bryan has over 40 years’ experience  in the measurement science underpinning the characterisation and mechanical properties of hardmetals.

  His personal research interests span a very broad range of hard materials, metals and metal composites with a special interest in developing test method development, understanding and analysis. Other interests include the kinetics of microstructure evolution, microstructural metrology, miniature thermomechanical testing and high rate, high temperature, compression testing.

  Bryan is a past Co-Chair of the Hard Materials Group of the EPMA and now acts as mentor for the group and also contributes to Summer Schools and Courses. He also served recently a seven year spell as chair of the Particulate Engineering Committee of the IoM3 in the UK.

  He is a member of various liaison boards of international conferences and journals and was Secretary to the VAMAS Steering Group from 1988-1992. He currently represents the Hard Material community on the ISO TC119 Standards Committee for Powder Metallurgy and was a member of the Research Committee of the PowdermatriX. Faraday project.

  In his career, Bryan has published more than 350 papers and reports and is now an NPL Emeritus Senior Fellow in Characterisation and Performance of Materials.

  His personal interests are dominated by a passion for trees including testing bone strength by base jumping from plum trees!

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  Dr Volker Arnhold

  Volker Arnhold is very well known in the PM community having been active in the industry for nearly 50 years. He started his work as an intern at the Krebsöge factory before taking a diploma and Phd in Physics at Westfälische Wilhelms Universität at Münster. Subsequently in 1981 he joined Krebsöge as a development engineer for light-weight metals (Aluminium and Titanium) before taking over the leadership of the R&D department in 1987.

  From 1997 to 2002 Volker was in charge of the global R&D activities of GKN Sinter Metals. This position included global responsibility for the harmonised implementation of the Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental systems in the then new organization.

  Finally from 2002 to his retirement from full time activity in 2012 he was responsible for the department of Global Advanced Engineering / R&D at GKN Sinter Metals. This role included new processes, materials, equipment, modelling and testing. Indeed Volker is co-inventor of several patents in the area of PM and non-destructive testing.

  Volker is a former member of the boards of DGM (German Society for Materials) and of the EPMA. He also acted as Technical Chairman of the 1998 EPMA World Congress in Granada and Co-chairman of the 2002 MPIF World Congress in Orlando.

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  Steven Moseley

  Key Expert and Chief Scientist, Business Area Electric Tools and Accessories (Hilti AG)

  Steve Moseley holds a bachelors degree and Ph.D. in Metallurgy from the University of Sheffield, UK, and has worked in the field of powder metallurgy since 1987. Following research work on HIPing of ceramic-metal powder composites, he spent 3 years in the steel industry before returning to PM as Technical/Quality Manager for a UK-based hardmetal manufacturer. Since 1996 he has worked at Hilti in Liechtenstein primarily on the development of cutting materials, joining technologies and drilling systems, covering cemented tungsten carbide hardmetals, diamond impregnated segments and polycrystalline diamond. His current position is "Key Expert and Chief Scientist" within the Business Area Electric Tools and Accessories

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  Philippe Gundermann

  VP Strategy and Financial Communication (Eramet)

  Philippe Gundermann has been appointed VP Strategy and Financial Communication. He provides as well overall supervision of research and engineering activities of ERAMET group. His previous position was CEO of AUBERT & DUVAL & ERASTEEL, a position he has been holding for 6 years (5000 employees, a turnover of 1bn€, 16 industrial sites in the world). AUBERT&DUVAL & ERASTEEL, are world leaders in high performance steels, titanium, super alloys, high-speed steels and powder metallurgy. In addition, he is involved in different professional organizations, such as President of EPMA (European Powder Metallurgy Association) and Board member of A3M (Mining, Minerals and Metals Alliance). With a metallurgical engineer background Philippe Gundermann has held various technical and managerial positions within the ERAMET group since 1993. He started in the Nickel-Cobalt Sandouville Refinery as Principal Process Engineer and after the development of new recycling activities he took over the R&D and Investment Management for this entity. He has then been involved in the industrial strategy of the Nickel Division of ERAMET, especially in the first stages of the major industrial programs in New Caledonia. From 2003 to 2007, Philippe Gundermann was CEO of Eurotungstene, leading the team and developing new powder products and metallurgical businesses in a technical and diversified products range context. Eurotungstene is a 100 % subsidiary of ERAMET, mainly playing in the competitive international metal markets, with a specific dedication to Asia.

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  Mr Martin Bloemacher
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  Dr.-Ing. Harald Neubert
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  Georg Breitenmoser
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  Dr. Michael Krehl

  MTSG Consulting

  Michael Krehl majored in materials science at Stuttgart University. He completed his Master (Dipl.-Ing.) and PhD theses under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Günter Petzow, at the powder metallurgy lab of the Max-Planck-Institute for metals research, Stuttgart. Both theses focused on Powder Metallurgy (PM) of the refractory metals niobium and tantalum.
  After finishing his studies, Dr. Krehl worked for four years as a VP at a Silicon Valley startup acquisition for the Materials Division of Degussa Electronics Inc., a subsidiary of Degussa AG (today Evonik Industries AG). After one year at VDM Nickel-Technologie AG he moved back into powder metallurgy for the automotive supply industry. First, 6 years as head of the PM division of SHW GmbH, followed by 20 years as MD/CEO of the globally active PMG Group.
  Dr. Krehl has served as a member of the board of the German Fachverband Pulvermetallurgie for over 20 years, with 10 of those years as president. In addition, he served 6 years as VP of the higher-level German Steel and Metalworking Association, WSM e.V., and several years for the Council and Board of EPMA.
  Since 2016, Dr. Krehl has been a consultant for the leading powder metallurgical industry in Europe.
  He published approx. 30 technical papers in the fields of material science, powder metallurgy, manufacturing technology and mobility.

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  Dr.-Ing. Harald Neubert

  Ms Sc. Chem engineering (specialized in metallurgy) from The Danish Technical University where I graduated in 1999 From 1999-2006 Process metallurgist at Dan Spray producing high alloyed tool steels with spray forming technology in close collaboration with Uddeholm 2006 - Head of R&D, Innovation and lately marketing at Sintex focusing on powder metallurgical stainless steel, hard- and soft magnetic materials, Metal Injection Molding, Thermal spraying of hard metal coatings and combinations of new processes with new materials 2014 Executive MBA in technology and innovation from Aalborg University in Denmark
  Teaching in powder metallurgy at Aarhus University and teaching MBA students in technology innovation at Aalborg university.