CORREX to join Institut de la Corrosion and the Swerea Group

The French corrosion laboratory CORREX has been acquired by the Institut de la Corrosion as of July 1st 2009. CORREX is a well renowned corrosion laboratory in France with special expertise in corrosion and corrosion fatigue. Institut de la Corrosion is a leading corrosion research institute in Brest, France, wholly owned subsidiary of Swerea KIMAB, a major European research institute in the field of metallic materials, corrosion and corrosion protection.

Swerea Lightweight

Swerea Lightweight is our platform to help our customers to take a step towards industrial lightweight. Swerea offers industry customers integrated solutions covering all technical stages of the product development. This includes everything from material selection, design, dimensioning, optimisation and simulation to environmental and production aspects.

Welcome to Swerea Lightweight - a strong argument for Swedish industry

Swerea has national leadership in lightweight and offers Swedish industry the following ...

Research Partner
”Being a natural research partner”

Coordination
”Coordinate activities within lightweight”

Expert Consultant - engineering and education
”A wide range of knowledge and excellence”

A selection of our expertise:

excellence - all the materials of the future
extensive testing resources
design & process optimisation
simulation
prototypes.

Linkage arm: Lower weight can give the Permobil better performance – and it will also lower the cost of production.

Robotic arm: With a lighter arm the energy consumption is reduced significantly, and the robot becomes faster.