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Birmingham City University, Technology Innovation Centre, Birmingham, UK.

The thirteenth SheMet - International Conference on Sheet Metal – is to take place at the Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre campus, Millennium Point, Central Birmingham, between 6th and 8th April 2009.

The University has a well-established tradition of research and collaboration with manufacturing in the West Midlands – the UK’s industrial heartland.

Birmingham’s central location and its excellent air, rail and road links make the City an ideal place to host an international conference such as SheMet ‘09. Its historical role in the development of the Industrial Revolution saw the City grow and mature through the nineteenth century becoming recognised as the United Kingdom’s industrial capital.

Known as the City of 1000 trades, Birmingham became established as the country’s main manufacturing centre.

It was there, in the City’s first railway hotel – now a listed building - just a few metres from the modern campus that forms Birmingham City University’s Technology Innovation Centre, that the internationally renowned Institution of Mechanical Engineers was formed in 1847.

Today, Birmingham is a contemporary European city combining tradition with modernity. Millennium Point is thus an ideal location to be the venue for the SheMet’09 conference. This will provide a major forum for researchers, academics and industrialists.

In a world of significant price and supply volatility of materials, their production and use, the 2009 conference will see the latest research and developments in all areas of sheet metal processing and characterisation presented and discussed.

Delegates from a wide range of relevant disciplines - including technologists, material scientists, manufacturing and production engineers, and computer scientists – will mingle and network, exchanging ideas and forming partnerships for future work and collaboration.

The programme will comprise over 100 peer-reviewed papers, along with keynote speeches from leading industrialists. These will be subsequently published in the conference proceedings and the International Journal of Key Engineering Materials.