TPT January 2022

I NDUS T RY

Metal exper ts meet to address impor tant topics such as sustainability of steel tubes

“It’s a unique opportunity to gather a wide range of industry experts from technical specialists to academia together to have an open discussion on trending topics. It allows us to share rel- evant information, reconsider certain concepts from a different light and establish benchmarks,” said Shervin Djahan, CEO of Fives KEODS, a steel process expert subsidiary at Fives. More than 50 technical experts from 20 companies, including Acciai Bertoli Safau, Aperam, ArcelorMittal Tubarão, CSN, Erdemir, Liberty Steel Magona, Nippon Steel, NLMK, SSAB Europe, Voestalpine, CLN and Eramet gathered together to discuss new insights regarding steel microstructural evolutions and phase transformations; new generations burners for annealing furnaces; scale production optimisation in reheating furnaces; photogrammetry for automotive steel grades; predictive modelling to optimise strip processing; and recycling for steel manufacturing industry. The webinar was chaired by Professor Dierk Raabe from Max Planck Society and Doctor Jean- Pierre Birat, an expert on environmental challenges for the steel industry.

FIVES and the National Institute of Applied Sciences Lyon (INSA) jointly held a tech webinar ‘Sustainable Metallurgy’ to share expertise focusing on sustainable steel processing topics. The event, which was held online at the end of 2021, was a traditional steel expert-level meeting hosting academia, steelmakers, technology providers and end users to have a free exchange on the steel industry’s hot topics.

Experts gathered to discuss new insights regarding steel microstructural evolutions and phase transformations

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