Stahlinstitut VDEh https://vdeh.de/en/information/news/ – 17.02.2025

National steel summit in Duisburg

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.

Mona Neubaur, NRW Minister of Economic Affairs, had invited her colleagues from the Steel Alliance as well as representatives from politics, business and trade unions to the National Steel Summit in Duisburg. After the lecture and program on the topic of transformation and its framework conditions she was also able to welcome Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck. In his speech and in an extensive on-stage interview, Habeck assured his support for the steel industry and its transformation. The highlight of the evening, Minister Neubaur presented the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs the National Steel Action Plan.


The VDEh Steel Institute also accepted the invitation: Dr. Hendrik Adam, Chairman of the VDEh, presented his expertise in the workshop “Global environment,
global markets and trade policy flanking the transformation”. Also present were the Managing Director, Dr. Stefanie Brockmann, and the Head of Communications, Peter Schmieding, were also on site to provide decision-makers decision-makers from politics, business and science and to discuss the challenges to discuss the challenges of the transformation.

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