IWM – IAPK Colloquium 2017: Sintering as a Future Technology – Opportunities and Challenges

On 16.03.2017, at the Technology Centre on Europaplatz, in Aachen/DE, the IWM–IAPK Colloquium was held under the heading “Sintering as a Future Technology – Opportunities and Challenges”. In his welcome address, speaking to the over 100 attendees, the host, Prof. Dr-Ing. Christoph Broeckmann (Fig. 1), proclaimed that sintering is a technology with a long past, but has great future potential, too.