The Institute of Vehicle Concepts of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is organising the WerkstoffPlus Auto symposium for the 15th time on 19 and 20 February 2025 in Stuttgart.

With the “WerkstoffPlus Auto” conference for new vehicle and material concepts, we are once again offering you an excellent platform in 2025 to exchange ideas with managers and experts from the entire automotive value chain and to present your research results, developments and innovations. Become part of a competent network from automotive technology, the supplier industry and mechanical engineering, which meets at WerkstoffPlus Auto every year in February in a very tasteful ambience. Our event will take place on 19 and 20 February 2025 in the Alte Stuttgarter Reithalle.

Review of the WerkstoffPlus Auto 2024

The 2024 conference focussed on the sustainability and recyclability of materials and construction methods in the automotive sector. Every year, the conference and accompanying exhibition brings together participants from automotive technology, the supplier industry, mechanical engineering and science. The presentations focus on applications of extremely lightweight and sustainable material composite structures, conversion paths to energy-reduced production processes in industry, through to the use of locally sourced wood for structures in vehicle construction, and they also provide an outlook on future technologies and processes that will enable resource efficiency and substitution, the circular economy and the digitalisation of linked value chains. DLR also provides insights into current research projects and innovative technologies. In this way, it promotes the transfer to industrial implementation.