ABB SYNARLEAP

SYNERLEAP is an innovation growth hub powered by ABB that connects the top industrial startups with the best of ABB. SYNERLEAP helps startups to win customers, scale and grow by providing them with mentorship, access to ABB's networks, clients, industrial partners and technology.

LINKS:
• STILFOLD Press Release (2022-01-28)
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IMA

IMA (Innovative Materials Arena) is a cluster organisation that brings together research, public sector and business, all active within the field of advanced materials and sharing the same vision – to facilitate materials innovation. IMA supports collaboration and enables economic growth through its extensive network, educational assets, practical support and IMA Share digital platform for sharing of material equipment and skills.

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OUTOKUMPU

The global leader in sustainable stainless steel. Outokumpu's history goes back to the invention of steel and we continue to drive stainless steel innovation. Their latest innovation is Circle Green®, a product line with up to 93% lower carbon footprint compared to the global industry average.

LINKS:
• STILFOLD Press Release (2023-11-07)
• Outokumpu Circle Green
• Case Study / LCA Analysis (2022)
• Visit their website

POLESTAR

Polestar 0 project: a directed call for collaboration on the elimination of greenhouse gases. Sturdy constructions are built from the ground up. The same goes for sustainable products.

For the Polestar 0 project, STILFOLD will build on its existing inroads into sustainable and low-emission manufacturing to understand how their origami-inspired steel folding technique can be advanced to produce Polestar’s ambitious climate-neutral car.

STILFOLD explores how origami folding can be used as an alternative to welding, as well as which chemical reactions in the car’s supply chain are generating greenhouse gasses and how these reactions can be altered or avoided to eliminate emissions.

"The true potential of electric cars will be realized when we as an industry can say goodbye not only to exhaust emissions but also to production-related emissions. We made a bold commitment when we launched the Polestar 0 project, and strong partnerships like the one with STILFOLD show the progress towards our goal", says Thomas Ingenlath - CEO of Polestar.

LINKS:
• POLESTAR News Article (2023-11-27)
• STILFOLD Press Release, Swedish (2022-09-14)
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ADAXIS

ADAXIS is a French-Swedish robotics software company on a mission to change the way the world uses industrial robotics and enable manufacturing of more sustainable and innovative products. ADAXIS software enables robotic arms to function as 3D printers for various materials (including metals, plastics, composites, and concrete) facilitating the production of large, complex parts with minimal waste.

"ADAXIS has knowledge and experience that will further simplify and improve the process and at the same time guarantee that the end result will be the same regardless of where in the world the final production takes place", says Jonas Nyvang - Co-founder and CEO of STILFOLD.

LINKS:
• Adaxis Press Release (2023-02-14)
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BRANTHEIM

AB H.Brantheim was founded in the 1940′s and are an engineering company that specializes in engineering services in sheet metal. With their modern machinery and expertise they can offer a complete solution in terms of design, producibility, manufacturing and painting.

Together with Brantheim, we explore and challenge the limitations of sheet metal into cutting edge levels.

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EIT MANUFACTURING

European Institute of Technology MANUFACTURING brings together leading organisations from industry, research, education and the public sector to boost innovation and competitiveness in the manufacturing sector in Europe.

EIT MANUFACTURING's vision is to create a sustainable and globally competitive manufacturing sector in Europe that delivers social and economic value to the society.

LINKS:
• ADAXIS & STILRIDE Investment (2023-11-27)
• STILFOLD Press Release, Swedish (2023-11-05)
• Sustainable Innovation Journey (2023-10-09)
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GEORGIA TECH

Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has partnered with STILFOLD to roll out a pioneering initiative that will teach students innovative new approaches to sustainable manufacturing, inspired by the Japanese art of origami.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the United States’ top public research universities with nearly 40,000 students who study in-person at the main campus in Atlanta, at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in France, at Georgia Tech-Shenzhen in China, as well as through distance and online learning.

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s undergraduate and graduate degree programs - all ranked in the top 5 in the United States - provide rigorous learning environments and out-of-the-classroom experiences that challenge students to reach their greatest potential.

LINKS:
• STILFOLD Press Release (2023-05-24)
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LIGHTER

Since 2013, LIGHTer has served as a hub for Sweden’s development in the lightweight field. They are an industry-spanning, research and innovation initiative aimed at stimulating the development of lightweight technologies, processes, and materials. Through networking, conferences, and calls for proposals, they enable collaboration between larger industries, small and medium-sized enterprises, innovation organizations, universities, and research institutes.

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LIU

STILFOLD joins forces with Linköping University (Sweden) to optimize the performance of its sustainable manufacturing technology using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Together they will create an AI model that can predict the optimal sequence of folds that should be used to produce any given shape. They will also work to improve STILFOLD's existing technology infrastructure and optimize how its robots are programmed to create folds.

STILFOLD will train its models on new and existing data from the steel industry - as well as proprietary data including the results of different folding patterns, as well as how different materials react to different folding techniques. STILFOLD will to do this by integrating digital twin technology, reinforcement learning (RL), and detailed material models embedded in physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), to deliver advanced computational tools. As a result, it will make it even easier for end-users to use the curve folding technology to build robust and complex structures.

LINKS:
• STILFOLD Press Release (2023-11-22)
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RISE

RISE is Sweden’s research institute and innovation partner. Through their international collaboration programmes with industry, academia and the public sector, they ensure the competitiveness of the Swedish business community on an international level and contribute to a sustainable society.

STILFOLD, under the working name "LightRide", is committed to widen its scope from steel only to enable efficient and creative folding of recycled aluminum. This project is a natural progression of the technology's promise to eventually handle a wide range of common flat metallic materials.

"Although the initial focus has been on steel, we know that the technology fundamentally works on almost all types of materials. Aluminum has always been high on the list as the next step, which makes this project particularly well-suited at the moment", says Jonas Nyvang - Co-founder and CEO of STILFOLD.

LINKS:
• STILRIDE Press Release, Swedish (2023-11-28)
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