Stahlinstitut VDEh https://vdeh.de/en/information/news/ – 01.06.2025

On 5/6 December 2024, the VDEh Steel Institute held its annual “Materials Testing Conference” in Krefeld. A good 120 heads from universities and industry took part in this industry get-together for materials testers. The more than 50 presentations were rounded off by the Galileo Award ceremony for Dr. Christoph Schweizer from the Fraunhofer Institute IWM, a science slam and a discussion forum. This program was accompanied by a sponsors' and trade exhibition.

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At the invitation of the VDEh, the international continuous casting community met in Essen from October 7 - 11, 2024 for the 11th European Continuous Casting Conference. More than 350 participants came to the Philharmonie Essen for presentations and to discuss the latest developments in continuous casting, which began its journey to becoming the dominant casting process in the steel industry a good 50 years ago. Following the successful European Electric Steel-making Conference in June 2024, the VDEh is thus continuing the success story of its metallurgy conferences.

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On September 16, 2024, the National Steel Summit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia together with the German Steel Federation, IG-Metall IG-Metall and the other states of the Steel Alliance. The VDEh was also there to exchange ideas with its members and other industry and other industry representatives during this challenging time.

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The Steel Institute VDEh is very happy and proud to have organised a successful and inspiring 13th European Electric Steelmaking Conference EEC

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The minutes of the 204th General Meeting of the VDEh Steel Institute on September 13, 2023 in Hattingen are available for viewing or downloading in the internal member area under the menu item "Member information".

The presentations by the winner of the Carl-Lueg-Denkmünze 2023, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Bleck, and Dr. Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch on the history of Henrichshütte are available for download in the internal member area under the menu item "Fachbeiträge".

If you are active in the field of continuous casting as plant operator, plant supplier, researcher, consumption materials or services provider we offer you to take the chance to present your latest technological developments, ideas and research results at this event by submitting your abstract for a technical paper

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At its general meeting in the LWL Henrichshütte Museum, the VDEh Steel Institute awarded Wolfgang Bleck the Carl Lueg Medal. In front of more than 150 VDEh members, the long-serving director of the Aachen Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy was honored for his services to steel research and the German steel industry. Wolfgang Bleck is only the 20th award winner in the almost 120-year history of the Carl Lueg Medal.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Pluschkell passed away on September 1, 2023, at the age of 87. Prof. Pluschkell was born in 1936 in Laptau, East Prussia. After studying ferrous metallurgy at what was then the Clausthal Mining Academy, he first worked as an assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Metallurgy there, where he received his doctorate in 1967, and from 1966 as a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart. In 1971 he moved to Hoesch Stahl AG in Dortmund, where he was responsible for research and development, latterly as plant manager for process engineering. In 1990 he was appointed to the Chair of Metallurgical Process Technology at Clausthal Technical University, which he held until his retirement in 2002. Even after that, Prof. Pluschkell continued to be involved in research and teaching.

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The "Sommerhüttenfest" is the summer party of the Materials Science and Engineering department of RWTH Aachen University. To the left and right of the main stand, the VDEh presented itself with two large flags.

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