Punto Inox will support CERN in its SuShi project — yes, you read it right

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. It was established in 1954, with the aim of providing researchers with the necessary tools for High Energy Physics studies.

CERN scientists and engineers use the most complex and advanced instruments to study the basic elements of substance: the fundamental particles. Their goal is pushing the boundaries of human knowledge by deepening the smallest building blocks of the Universe. Today, the understanding of the substance goes much deeper than the atomic nucleus, and CERN's main research area is particle physics. For this reason, the Organization’s laboratory is often called the “European particle physics laboratory”.

Punto Inox Service Srl has been selected as European supplier of stainless steel materials which will be used to carry out a new and innovative CERN project. The company is proud to contribute to studies and research that could help to understand the deep mechanisms of the Universe.

The provided material will be used for the “SuShi project”, acronym for Superconducting Shield septum, a superconducting magnetic shield which will be used in a new magnet prototype for the extraction of charged particle beams from a particle accelerator.

“Scientists from around the world come to CERN to seek answers to such fundamental questions using particle accelerators and pushing the limits of technology”.