Meet our sponsors

ABB is a trusted partner and leading supplier to the metals industry, offering a complete range of products, services and end-to-end solutions that improve productivity, quality, safety, cost-efficiency and sustainability in iron, steel, aluminium and other metals production processes. With over a century of experience, ABB’s offerings are expertly tailored and highly process-specific, serving the entire industry from mines to material yards and from primary manufacturing to casting, rolling and processing lines. Across the whole metals value chain ABB demonstrates a commitment to optimizing operations with high performance products and digital solutions.

Carmeuse is a global leader in performance materials and services with core competencies in mining, equipment, and engineering solutions. The company optimizes its customers´ processes, improves safety and provides reliable supply; being a vital part of global industries. It sets standards for sustainable business practices, and is a rock-solid family of over 4,500 employees spread across almost every continent.

Carmeuse has extensive expertise in the use of its products in steelmaking and in mineral loop solutions, building value from waste and by-products. It offers a full solution for lime supply and use.

Lime plays an important role in steelmaking, especially for the slag making process, leading to sustainable and clean steel production, and a reduced CO₂ footprint. Carmeuse is the right partner to support the steel industry in achieving its sustainability goals. For further information, visit www.carmeuse.com

Specialized in turnkey projects, leader in minimills and long products, among the front runners in steel production complexes for flat products and tubes, and aluminium strip, Danieli is a major player in steel plant supply worldwide. Innovative technology, automation, process know-how, design and manufacturing carried out through fully owned centres that guarantee product quality and on-time deliveries, make Danieli a reliable partner. Ten thousand people operate in the Group companies located in Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, France, The Netherlands, Spain, UK, USA, Brazil, Russia, Thailand, China, India and Japan. Its average turnover is over €2 billion, and its investments in research and development amount to €140 million per year (average for the last five years).

For further information, visit www.danieli.com

Fero Labs makes factory optimization software that is powering the next wave of steel manufacturing. Since launching in 2015, Fero Labs has built actionable machine learning for the steel sector to optimize production, reduce waste, and improve quality. With offices in New York and Düsseldorf, Fero Labs aligns with leading global steelmakers to increase profitability by up to 10%, cutting waste with confidence to increase sustainability and profits across entire enterprises.

For further information, visit www.ferolabs.com

Hy Stor Energy is facilitating the transition to a fossilfree energy environment by developing and advancing renewable hydrogen at scale through the development, commercialization, and operation of renewable hydrogen hub projects. The company defi nes green hydrogen as only that which has been produced from renewables – as set forth by the Green Hydrogen Organisation. Large, fully integrated projects produce, store, and deliver 100% carbon-free, energy, providing customers with safe and reliable renewable energy on-demand. Developed as part of an integrated hub, these projects couple on-site renewable hydrogen production with integrated long-duration storage and distribution – using scale to reduce costs. Hy Stor Energy, led by energy storage industry and hydrogen technology veteran Laura L. Luce, has an innovative team with deep expertise and is positioned as a leader in the renewable hydrogen revolution.

John Cockerill Industry supplies sustainable innovative technologies for cleaner and smarter steel, making production more sustainable and decarbonizing the steel industry. For over 200 years, John Cockerill (formerly known as CMI) endeavours to improve the performance of production facilities while making them more resource-effi cient and environmentally friendly.

Still today, the company is combining talent and technology, history and modernity, engineering, and services, which help it to accompany steelmaking clients in their digital transformation journey and their transition to responsible, zero carbon steel making. John Cockerill’s offering for the steel industry comprises of: reheating furnaces, pickling lines, acid regeneration plants, cold rolling mills, strip processing lines and automation. Its vast experience in the fi elds of engineering, international project management and sourcing enables it to provide innovative and global technical solutions tailored to the needs of a customers’ industrial complex, or specifi c equipment. John Cockerill operates all over the world and offers customized lifecycle services: design and set-up, aftersales services and spare parts, transformation and upgrading, and training and remote support.

PSI is the leading partner for digital production in the metals industry combining SCM, APS and MES within one service platform – PSImetals. Its software solutions enable producers of aluminium and steel products to ensure their competitive edge by delivering products as agreed in quantity, quality and time while considering inventory, productivity and performance targets.

PSImetals’ software line offers an end-to-end approach for the overall supply chain, caring for all the needs of the primary metals industry. From supplier to customer, PSImetals offers powerful and highly confi gurable standard products to support all processes from planning to execution while respecting the complexity of metal production. For further information, visit www.psimetals-de

Smart Steel Technologies (SST) supports the steel industry in the transformation towards intelligent AI-supported optimised production. SST delivers AI software products that boost quality, improve energy demand, and ensure accurate management of CO₂ effi ciency. Leading steel manufacturers in Germany and abroad successfully use SST software throughout the production process. The range covers the production of high-quality automotive exposed grades to maximising effi ciency in the construction steel sector. SST excels in a portfolio of professional AI-powered optimization packages, which lead to a permanent performance increase of 5-10% per process stage in 24/7 use. At the same time, SST accompanies the steel manufacturer from the integration of the software to the complete achievement of any optimization goals with a high service level. To make this happen, SST relies on its well coordinated team of outstanding metallurgists, process experts, and AI specialists.