Welcome to the November 2025 edition of the Total Materia newsletter!
Edition Highlights
This month, discover the official launch of the Optimizer module, designed to simplify and accelerate complex material selection through data-driven decision-making. Explore insights from international collaboration at BECCSI 2025, read our latest expert article on CAD-based material optimization published with a SOLIDWORKS partner, and dive into featured articles covering resilience, toughness, and casting defect prevention.
We’re constantly enhancing the Total Materia platform to ensure you have access to the most comprehensive and up-to-date materials information.
Here’s what’s new in November 2025:
| Category | Key Updates |
| Metals – Standards Updates | AA, ASTM, ASME, EN, GB, GOST, IS, ISO, JIS, SAE, WL |
| Metals – Producer Updates | SSAB, Luvata |
| Joints – Standards Updates | GB/T 37791:2025 |
| Joints – Producers Updates | MIG WELD S.A.S.U.; Elga, Norsk Sveiseteknikk AS |
| Polymers PLUS – Standards Updates | ISO 5834, ASTM D578 |
| Polymers PLUS – Producer New | Nolato, PTW Technik Wagenfeld GmbH, CamSeals, Bitec, Favier Group, Injextru plastics |
| Polymers PLUS – Producer Updates | LyondellBasell, 3M Company, Braskem, Denka, DIC Corporation, Envalior, Freudenberg, Henkel, Trelleborg, Murtfeldt Kunststoffe GmbH & Co. KG |
| Green Line – Compliance – Producer Updates | LCY Chemical Corp. |
| Green Line – Regulations Updates | DSL/NDSL, SIN List, MEPC, Korean RoHS, EMRT, BPR, CoRAP, SVHC |
Optimizer: Now Officially Launched
This month marks the official launch of Optimizer as a new module within the Total Materia Horizon platform. Optimizer was developed to solve one of the biggest engineering challenges: balancing performance, cost, availability, sustainability, and compliance when selecting materials. Fully integrated with the Horizon database, it analyzes millions of data points and transforms complex material data into clear visual plots and ranked material lists. By allowing users to define priorities through simple weighting, Optimizer helps organisations make faster, more confident, and fully traceable material decisions. The result is reduced design iteration, smarter procurement choices, and a stronger link between concept, engineering, and supply chain planning.
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BECCSI 2025
Total Materia took part in BECCSI 2025, an international event focused on innovation, digitalization, and advanced engineering solutions. The event brought together academia, industry, and technology leaders to share research, real-world applications, and future-forward manufacturing strategies. Our participation focused on demonstrating how reliable materials data and intelligent tools support engineering decision-making, product development, and research-driven innovation. |
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Engineering-Grade Material Data for More Reliable CAD/CAE Workflows
Our Polish partner published a new expert article exploring why professional material databases are essential in modern CAD/CAE environments. It highlights how incomplete or outdated material data can affect design accuracy and simulation reliability, particularly for advanced analyses such as nonlinear, fatigue, and dynamic simulations that depend on precise stress–strain curves and temperature-dependent properties. |
- RESILIENCE AND TOUGHNESS IN ENGINEERING MATERIALS
This article explores how materials absorb and return energy under stress, comparing resilience in the elastic range with toughness during plastic deformation. It highlights how these properties influence material selection for real-world applications and explains how engineers use stress–strain behavior and mathematical models to predict performance in demanding conditions. - CASTING DEFECTS IN STEELS
Focusing on quality challenges in steel casting, this article examines the most common types of casting defects and their causes. It introduces a clear, morphology-based classification system and presents practical prevention methods to help foundries reduce scrap rates, improve consistency, and move closer to zero-defect production.