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International Magnesium Association

Annual IMA World Magnesium Conference

New Business • New Connections • New Learning

Join us as we kick off the 80th Annual IMA World Magnesium Conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 14-16 May 2023!

About the Conference

IMA’s annual conference offers one-of-a-kind networking opportunities, educational collaborations and unique sessions tailored exclusively for those in the magnesium industry! This annual event provides organizations and individuals the unique opportunity to showcase their services to an audience of in-house magnesium professionals and influential leaders. We will do a bilingual presentation conference (Chinese and English) with translating services available for some technical sessions. Don’t miss the best opportunity for new business, new connections, and new learning.

https://www.intlmag.org/news/622873/IMA-Is-Now-Accepting-Presentation-Abstracts-for-the-2023-IMA-World-Magnesium-Conference.htm

Now accepting 2023 Award Submissions!

Deadline: Submit 2023 entries by Monday, 20 February 2023

Again for 2023, IMA will highlight our Awards of Excellence winners and feature awards recognizing Future Technologies for Magnesium and Health and Safety initiatives.

(There are a five categories, I just chose the most appropriate)

Future Technologies for Magnesium

Recognizing novel non-traditional advances in magnesium technology, including processes, manufacturing methods, applications, and novel alloy formulations. Entries may include but are not limited to:

Bio-medical applications

Additive manufacturing processes

Other non-traditional applications

Non-commercialized entries are encouraged in this category.

Innovation: How creative and unique is the process? Is this a new process for an existing application or an existing process adapted for a new application?

Technology: What is the level of technology required in the process? More points will be awarded for more sophisticated technology.

Impact: Will this process have an anticipated change on the industry in terms of scale, environmental impact, or other societal benefits?

Synergies: What additional new opportunities can this lead to in advancing the Mg industry?

Competitive Displacement: How difficult will it be to displace existing technologies? More points will be awarded for “easy/rapid” adoption.

Economics: Cost factors—lower-cost solutions or those yielding other economic cost benefits, such as quality improvements, are preferred.

Who Can Enter

Nominations can be made by your own company, a customer, or anyone else whether or not they are an IMA member. Include detailed descriptions addressing the criteria outlined above, in the judging critera, and along with photographs.

https://www.intlmag.org/page/conference-sponsors-2023

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