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Pune Feb. 8

Sandvik Asia Ltd (SAL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the $8-billion Swedish group Sandvik, has announced that it would be setting up a new research and development modelling centre in India. The new centre is expected to be fully operational by the first quarter of 2008.

Mr Hakan Kingstedt, Managing Director and President, SAL, said a new building equipped with modern modelling systems and connectivity with Sweden would be housed at the SAL premises in Pune. This would help strengthen Sandvik's competence in materials technology. He said this would be Sandvik Materials Technology's first international R&D extension outside of Sweden.

The area of focus would be computer modelling, both on alloy design from thermodynamic models and metallurgical processing such as rolling and extrusion using FEM/FEA.

Modelling allows reduction of development time for alloys and metallurgical products such as tubes, sheets and wires by a process of simulation and optimisation using hi-tech computational systems, he said.

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