Events
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2025
It has already been 30 years since the 1st European Oxygen Steelmaking Conference. Since then, significant achievements have been reached in steelmaking from a scientific and industrial perspective, environmental aspects and clean steel technologies gaining tremendous importance and attention. We actively participated in this exciting and intense journey in the last years. Therefore, it is a pleasure to jointly host EOSC 2025 and CTSI 2025, combining important hot topics of today’s iron and steel community.
Considering the current dynamics in the transformation of the European steel industry and all the different aspects and milestones to reach the goal of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050, joint efforts are inevitable. The two conferences are an excellent combination in these challenging surroundings, giving a platform to discuss and exchange on developments in the field of oxygen steelmaking, the future role of converter technologies in the environment of increased share of direct reduction processes and EAF investments and of course CO2 mitigation and other environmental and energy aspects in iron and steelmaking.
Following the success of both conferences in Aachen in 2022, we cordially invite you to join the 10th European Oxygen Steelmaking Conference and the 7th Conference on Clean Technologies in the Steel Industry from May 20-22, 2025 in Vienna, the beautiful capital city of Austria!
This seminar is aimed both at experienced refractory users or employees of refractory manufacturers who want to get to know other sectors, and at beginners in the refractory industry or in the industrial sectors in which refractory products are being used.
The seminar consists of two consecutive parts, each running 1.5 days. In the first part, the basics of raw materials, production, characteristics and installation of refractory materials and products are taught. The different classes of refractory materials and their typical representatives are presented. In the second part, experts from the process industry report on the specific applications of refractory products in the most important industrial sectors, on the materials used and on the special challenges involved with the change to climate neutrality in industrial production.
Members of the VDEh Steel Institute receive a 10% discount with the code VDEH10.
The International Congress on the Science and Technology of Steelmaking provides a forum for academic and industrial researchers to present their work on topics in process metallurgy, particularly those related to steel production, refining and casting. This meeting is aimed at creating an opportunity for a technical exchange at an international level among the numerous experts involved in steelmaking.
2nd - 5th July 2025
Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Seoul, Korea
Representing more than 20 percent of the industrial CO2 emissions, the steel value chain provides a powerful lever to substantially contribute to the green deal of the European Union eliminating the net CO2 emissions by 2050. The excellent recyclability of steel products may allow to close the value chain without downcycling the products, provided that metallurgy, steel grades and sorting strategies will be adapted accordingly. Beside closing the cycle, advanced steel technology contributes to the circular economy dimensions narrowing and slowing by increasing the material efficiency through, for example, light-weighting, and by increasing the longevity of steel products by, among others, improving fatigue strength in combination with novel structural integrity strategies, respectively.
The workshop addresses the entire value chain of modern steel products including the challenges of the transformation to hydrogen-based direct reduction. Topics include:
- Carbon-neutral steel metallurgy,
- High strength steels for lightweight design,
- Materials for electric vehicles,
- Towards a digital twin of steel processing and application,
- Impurities and other challenges from new process routes,
- Testing and service life assessment for complex loading conditions,
- Circular economy and socio-economic aspects.
ESTAD will take place for the seventh time after Paris 2014, Düsseldorf 2015, Vienna 2017, Düsseldorf 2019, Stockholm 2021 and Düsseldorf 2023.
ESTAD 2025 will be hosted by AIM, the Italian Association for Metallurgy, in Verona – Italy on 6-9 October 2025.
The knowledge and the development of the new ideas enhance progress. With the 7th European Steel Technology and Application Days 2025 (7th ESTAD 2025) AIM offers attendants and visitors
the opportunity to meet, exchange their ideas, perform fruitful discussion and create new professional relationships involving technology providers, suppliers, producers and customers.
The meeting will be focused on the technological advances, changes of the supply chain involving the raw materials and energy sources, transformation of the production processes and plants to accomplish the twin transition (ecological and digital) and the new perspective of steel applications.
Material developments are an integral part of technological innovations. A fundamental understanding of the relationships between material structure and properties is crucial. Materials testing is concerned with clarifying these relationships.
In addition, a sound understanding of the reliability of materials and products is important for economic value creation. Materials testing contributes to the circular economy by enabling sustainable material decisions and resource conservation.
Modern materials testing techniques and measurement technologies, supported by digital data management, machine learning and automated evaluations, are crucial. Other key topics remain the standardization of testing procedures and quality assurance. Data-driven methods can only be applied reliably with a high-quality database. Close cooperation is necessary in order to develop a common understanding of future requirements. This year's conference will also focus on the challenges facing the semiconductor industry.
By expanding the range of topics covered by the conference to include aspects of the circular economy, the automation of testing processes and their evaluation and, finally, the special requirements for materials testing in the chip manufacturing environment, the program committee hopes for a lively exchange with new participants as well as long-time companions of the conference from the academic and industrial environment. In addition to the intensive technical exchange, there will also be ample opportunity to find out about the latest systems, equipment and measuring methods from our exhibitors.
Main topics
- Hydrogen in metals
- Failure analysis / damage prevention / structural health monitoring
- Materials testing in the context of the circular economy
- Digital methods / research data management / automated testing
- Testing of additively manufactured components
- Plastics testing/composite materials
- Fatigue / fatigue strength
- Measuring and testing technology, micro-testing technology
- Determination of characteristic values
- Standardization, accreditation and quality assurance
- Testing under elevated temperature and/or corrosion
- Wear testing
- Fracture mechanics testing
- Materials testing beyond standardization
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2027
The new date for the Bright World of Metals in Düsseldorf has been set! From June 21 to 25, 2027, GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST will present the latest developments in the industry. World's leading trade fair quartet 2027 in Düsseldorf.