It is our greatest pleasure to announce the winners of the JSTP International Prize for R & D in Precision Forging.

JSTP has chosen the following two winners:

 

Prof. T. A. Dean (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Birmingham, UK)

Achievement: Added Value Forging Through Innovative Tooling and Processing

 

Prof. R. Kopp (Institute of Metal Forming, Aachen University, Germany)

Achievement: Research and Development of New Forming Processes and New Multi Scale Simulation Methods

 

The prize will be awarded to the two winners on the occasion of the 9th International Conference on Technology of Plasticity (ICTP) to be held in Gyeongju,Korea from Sept. 8, 2008. Each winner will be presenting a special lecture at the 9th ICTP.