The CIMTEC series of International Conferences on Modern Materials and Technologies was started on the late sixties with the objective of establishing closer relationships between the scientific materials research communities of Eastern and Western blocks in a time where exchange of information was remarkably constrained. Nowadays, where the geopolitical context is evolved to favour global exchanges with zettabyte information continuously flowing through the web, CIMTEC remains a primary focus for communication among the materials scientific, technical and production community worldwide.