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Alfa Laval hosts ESS Innovation Day: Exploring neutron insights for industry
Alfa Laval is hosting ESS Innovation Day 2025 in Lund, Sweden. The gathering brings together research directors from leading companies and universities to explore how industry can practically leverage the new opportunities offered by the international research facility European Spallation Source (ESS), and how neutrons can provide new insights into industrial challenges.
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[{"type":"text","content":"LUND, Sweden, Aug. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfa Laval is hosting ESS Innovation Day 2025 in Lund, Sweden. The gathering brings together research directors from leading companies and universities to explore how industry can practically leverage the new opportunities offered by the international research facility European Spallation Source (ESS), and how neutrons can provide new insights into industrial challenges.","length":422,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Organized for the fourth consecutive year, ESS Innovation Day is an initiative by the ESS High Level Industrial Forum, an advisory body consisting of leading industrialists. This year's meeting is part of the research facility's ongoing efforts to connect academia with the industrial sector.","length":300,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""By the end of 2027, ESS will have completed its construction project and launched its scientific program. To ensure readiness for this pivotal milestone and to fully harness the returns on our investment in this world-class research facility, we must intensify our engagement with future users - both within the scientific community and industry. A close and collaborative dialogue is essential to ensuring that ESS's unparalleled tools deliver the insights into materials needed to maintain European competitiveness and contribute to addressing the major challenges of our time," says Helmut Schober, Director General at ESS.","length":641,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""At Alfa Laval, we believe that collaboration between industry and academia is key to solving complex challenges. ESS Innovation Day 2025 marks an important step in harnessing neutron science to drive practical, groundbreaking solutions needed to successfully manage the transition across many industry verticals," says Julien Gennetier, Vice President, Energy Division at Alfa Laval.","length":394,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Presentations will focus on practical cases of neutron use by different industrial companies. In addition, there will be a panel discussion – 'How to develop and deliver outstanding R&D teams' – with Professor Mene Pangalos, former Global Research Director at AstraZeneca, Emma Adlerton, Executive Vice President Group Affairs at Alfa Laval and Laurence Mott, former Global Res...