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LATEST UMIP LICENSING NEWS UMIC ® UMIP ® UMI 3 9 EMspec ® - transforming the steel industry TMT utilises electromagnetic techniques to determine the percentage phase transformation of the steel by measuring its magnetic properties during the cooling stage of the hot rolling process. It is currently the only real-time measurement of its kind in the industry. These varying properties affect the final performance of the steel and TMT provides the industry with an invaluable and hitherto unavailable level of information to improve the production of high value steels. Commenting on the licence, Paul Sherman from PTL said: "Occasionally during one's career something special comes along and its impact on the industry is to open up the potential for metals that have previously eluded producers of high quality steels. In the 150th anniversary year that Bessemer filed his revolutionary patent for purifying molten iron into high grade steel the EMspec ® technology from The University of Manchester continues to push the frontiers of steel production to new heights, truly exciting." Professor Peyton added: "It is fantastic to see our research on electromagnetic inspection, which started in the laboratory having an impact in such a demanding industrial process. This has been a truly multi-disciplinary endeavour with our industrial partners. We expect that this technology will make a significant impact in the ability to roll the demanding high strength strip steels that are critical in sectors such as the automobile industry." The TMT development team has also signed a collaboration agreement with steel giant TATA in the Netherlands to install a three-head sensor system on the number 2 Hot Strip Mill at the IJmuiden plant. The system is now in place and the first industrial scale results are now being generated. The Transformation Monitor Technology is being extensively announced at international conferences throughout 2015 including AISTech in the USA, SEASI in Asia, ABM in Brazil, and the once every 4 years METEC ESTAD conference exhibition held in Germany. Technology based on research by Professor Tony Peyton and his team in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University, developed in conjunction with Siemens, has been licensed by UMIP on an exclusive basis to a Siemens/Mitsubishi joint venture, known as Primetals Technologies Limited (PTL). The University's patented technology, EMspec ® , underpins an innovative process called Transformation Monitor Technology (TMT) for use in the hot rolling of steel. L-R: Paul Sherman, Tony Peyton, Peter Hunt and Simon Clarke Image of Hot Rolling Mill EMspec ® sensor in situ