From the 8th - 11th of September 2010 in Piestany the 17th FORMING International Scientific Conference 2010 took place. The conference was organized by the Department of Forming, UVTE, MTF STU. The conference was attended by 60 participants from four countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Slovakia). The following universities participated:
VŠB TU Ostrava, Politechnika Śląska Katowice, Politechnika Śląska Gliwice, Politechnika Czestochovska, Silesian University of Technology Gliwice, Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanislawa Staszica w Krakowie, Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics Technical University Russia, TU Košice a STU Bratislava.
Important companies also attended this conference, these were:
ArcelorMittal Ostrava, a.s., VUHŽ Dobrá, a.s., Třinecké železárny, a.s., Materiálový a metalurgický výzkum, s.r.o., Comtes FHT, a.s., Kovohutě Rokycany, a.s., ŽDB Group, a.s. Bohumín, Visteon-Autopal, Instytut Metali Nieželaznych Gliwice, Instytut Obróbki Plastycznej Poznaň a TRUMPF Slovakia, s.r.o.
During the conference 47 contributions were presented in the field of forming and these have been published in journals, in the magazine Hutnicke listy and in the magazine Hutnik.