International Stainless & Special Steel Conference 2025
Tuesday, September 16 to Thursday, September 18, 2025
Istanbul, Türkiye
Swissôtel The Bosphorus
Navigating Geopolitical Challenges & Securing Long-Term Competitiveness
Following the overwhelming success of last year’s event in Rome - bringing together over 400 delegates from more than 200 companies - SMR Events is proud to present the premier global gathering for the stainless and special steel industry in 2025.
This year’s conference promises three engaging days of high-level discussions, strategic insights, and unparalleled networking opportunities. Top professionals from across the stainless steel value chain will gather to explore the latest industry developments and the forces shaping its future.
Why attend?
✔️ Explore how Europe's supply chain is evolving amid global geopolitical shifts
✔️ Discover strategies to boost long-term competitiveness
✔️ Gain insights into the trends defining the next chapter of stainless and special steels
Conference Theme: Navigating Geopolitical Challenges & Securing Long-Term Competitiveness
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the must-attend stainless steel event of the year. Join us in Istanbul and help shape the future of the industry.
Platinum-Sponsor
Gold-Sponsors
Silver-Sponsors
Bronze-Sponsors
This is the preliminary conference schedule. A detailed program will be shared soon—please check back for updates.
Monday, September 15
- 09:00 Field Visit to POSCO ASSAN TST (return around 17:00)
- 15:00 Registration Desks opens
- 16:00 Compliance Refresher Workshop
- 18:00 Welcome Drink Reception, Swissôtel The Bosphorus, Rooftop Terrace
Tuesday, September 16
- 08:00 Registration Desks opens
- 09:00 Keynote Panel: Competitiveness of the European Supply Chains
- 12:00 Stainless Steel Executive of the Year Award
- 14:00 Supply Chain, Distribution & CBAM
- 16:30 Fireside Chat Stainless Steel Flat Products
- 18:00 End of 1st Conference Day
- 18:30 Bus leaving for Boat trip, Gathering in main Lobby of Swissôtel The Bosphorus
- 19:00 Networking Boat Trip on the Bosporus
- 21:30 Bus returning to Swissôtel The Bosphorus
Wednesday, September 17
- 08:00 Registration Desks opens
- 09:00 Stainless Steel Raw Materials: Chrome, Molybdenum & Scrap
- 11:00 Stainless Steel Raw Materials: Nickel & Battery Recycling
- 12:30 Best Price Forecast Award
- 14:00 Focus on Tube & Pipe (seamless & welded)
- 16:30 Fireside Chat Stainless Steel Long Products
- 18:00 End of 2nd Conference Day
- 18:30 Turkish Night: Cocktail Reception, Sultan Park Garden, Swissôtel The Bosphorus
- 20:00 Turkish Night: Gala Dinner & Entertainment, Swissôtel The Bosphorus
Thursday, September 18
- 08:00 Registration Desks opens
- 09:00 Market Outlook China & India, Geopolitical Challenges & Competitiveness
- 11:00 Macroeconomic & Industry Outlook
- 14:00 CBAM Workshop (optional)
- 16:00 End of Conference
Amongst others, the following speakers have already been confirmed:
· Bernardo Velázquez, CEO, Acerinox S.A., Spain
· Timoteo Di Maulo, CEO, Aperam, Luxembourg
· Orsa Demirel, Head of Auto, White Goods, Consumer Markets, Aperam, Belgium
· Philip Torger, Business Development Manager, Böllinghaus Steel GmbH, Germany
· Burak Ketenci, CEO, Borsen Stainless Steel Pipe Co., Türkiye
· Emelie Olsson, Customer Success Lead, CBAMBOO Limited, UK
· Massimiliano Burelli, CEO, Cogne Acciai Speciali S.p.A., Italy
· Filipe Costa, CEO, Cronimet Envirotec GmbH, Germany
· Jürgen Pilarsky, CEO & Managing Director, Cronimet Holding GmbH, Germany
· Pinar Turan, Sales Manager, Global Stainless Steel, Türkiye
· Denny Lee, Chairman, JIULI Hi-Tech Metals, China
· Berçem Demir Aydın, CFO, Lumturi Stainless Steel, Slovakia
· Jim Lennon, Managing Director, Red Door Research, Ltd - Senior Consultant – Commodities Strategy, Macquarie Bank (Europe) Limited, UK
· Antonio Marcegaglia, Chairman and CEO, Marcegaglia Steel, Italy
· Christian Reuss, Account Executive, Metals Hub GmbH, Germany
· Julian Gatzweiler, Head of Raw Material Procurement Europe, Outokumpu, Germany
· Kati ter Horst, President and CEO, Outokumpu Corporation, Finland
· Jyotindra Buch, Director, Pranali Industrial Services LLP, India
· Roy Juch, Director Global Cost Management & Global Raw Material, Purem by Eberspächer, Germany
· Pinar Saritas, Board Member, Saritas Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Türkiye
· Haijun Wang, Chairman, Shanghai Decent Investment (Group) Co Ltd, A member of Tsingshan Industry, China
· Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
· Gerhard Pariser, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
· Sami Packalén, CEO, Stalatube Oy, Finland
· Frank Koch, CEO, Swiss Steel Holding AG, Switzerland
· Rakesh Chauhan, Managing Director, Viraj Profiles Pvt Ltd., India
The International Stainless & Special Steel Conference 2025 will take place in the following venue:
Swissôtel The Bosphorus
Visnezade Mah. Acisu Sok. N. 19, 34357, Macka Besiktas, Istanbul
We arranged a group booking rate of EUR 270 per night excl. VAT (EUR 302.4 including 10 % VAT and 2 % Accommodation Tax) for the standard room category. Breakfast is included in the rate. Please click on the booking link below. Our special group rate is only displayed after selecting the time-frame from Sept. 15 to Sep. 18, 2024.
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Representatives from the following companies will attend the event (the list will be updated regularly):
- Acciai Speciali Terni, Italy
- AF Chemicals, Switzerland
- Ambica Steels Limited, India
- Aperam, Luxembourg
- Bibus Metals AG, Switzerland
- Böllinghaus Steel GmbH, Germany
- Borsen Stainless Steel Pipe Co., Türkiye
- Carl Spaeter GmbH, Germany
- CBAMBOO, UK
- CCMA LLC, USA
- Cemsun Stainless Steel, Türkiye
- Central Wire Industries Ltd., Canada
- Cogne Acciai Speciali S.p.A., Italy
- Condoroil Stainless S.r.l., Italy
- CRONIMET, Germany
- Daido Steel Group Europe GmbH, Germany
- Deutsche Nickel GmbH, Germany
- EBNER Industrieofenbau GmbH, Austria
- Ekip Paslanmaz Celik San. Tic AS, Türkiye
- Eramet SA, France
- fischer group SE & Co. KG, Germany
- Fives Stein, France
- Global Metwire Injection SL, Spain
- Global Stainless Steel Inc., Canada
- H. BUTTING GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
- HILTI, Liechtenstein
- HSBC Deutschland, Germany
- Hursan Paslanmaz Çelik Geri Dönüşüm, Türkiye
- ICDA - International Chromium Development Association, France
- Inaceinox, S.A., Portugal
- Kirtanlal & Sons, India
- Lumturi Stainless Steel, Slovakia
- Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited, UK
- Madara Srl, Italy
- Magotteaux International, Belgium
- Maksteel Inox Pvt. Ltd., India
- Marcegaglia Specialties SpA, Italy
- McGrath, UK
- Metals Hub GmbH, Germany
- Montal I Fills SL, Spain
- Montanstahl AG, Switzerland
- NGI Trading SA, Switzerland
- Nexus, UK
- Nichel Leghe, Italy
- NLMK Verona SPA, Italy
- OMP, Belgium
- OSTP Holding OY, Finland
- Outokumpu, Germany
- Paul Jost GmbH, Germany
- Philipex Trading Ltd, Bulgaria
- POSCO ASSAN TST, Türkiye
- Pranali Industrial Services LLP, India
- Premium Steel & Services, S.A., Portugal
- Purem by Eberspaecher, Germany
- Recymet Systems, S.L., Spain
- REMONDIS Production GmbH, Germany
- R. Kretzschmann GmbH, Germany
- Sachin Steel Inc, USA
- Samuel Son & Co, Canada
- Saritas - Celik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S., Türkiye
- Schoeller Werk GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
- Scholz Recycling GmbH, Germany
- Shanghai Yongsheng Qingyuan Trading Co.,Ltd., China
- SMR GmbH, Austria
- Springer GmbH, Germany
- Stalatube Oy, Finland
- Sun Mark Stainless Pvt Ltd, India
- Swiss Steel Group, Switzerland
- Technoform Glass Insulation, Italy
- TELF AG, Switzerland
- TSR Stainless GmbH, Germany
- Tung Mung Development Co., Ltd., Taiwan
- TVARIT GmbH, Germany
- TXT Group Limited, Hong Kong
- Ugitech SA, France
- UKF Stainless Limited, UK
- Ulbrich Stainless Steels, USA
- Vale Base Metals International SA, Switzerland
- Venus Pipes and Tubes, India
- Viraj Profiles Pvt Limited, India
- Westfalia Metal Hoses GmbH, Germany
- Witzenmann GmbH, Germany
- YC Inox, Türkiye
- Zhejiang JIULI Hi-tech Metals Co., Ltd., China
Platinum-Sponsor
POSCO ASSAN TST
POSCO ASSAN TST Steel Industry Inc. as a jont venture of South Korean Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO), Kibar Holding and Daewoo International in 2011. The initial investment cost of the facility is S350 million and with 500 personel, the factory started production in 2013. The factory is located in Kocaeli Asım Kibar Organized Industrial Zone.The purpose of POSCO ASSAN TST’s establishment was to produce premium quality products with on time delivery to customers.
Gold-Sponsors
Cronimet Holding GmbH
CRONIMET has been a supplier to the stainless steel producing industry for over four decades and is the world market leader in stainless steel recycling. As the conservation of resources is becoming increasingly important, the Group is striving to develop further in these future markets and to constantly improve through innovation and research.
CRONIMET is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap, ferroalloys and primary metals. Today, the family-owned company is active on six continents with around 75 locations in the global procurement markets for secondary raw materials.
The company is based on the pillars Recycling, Trading and Processing. A comprehensive range of products and services is built on this solid foundation. It ranges from processed stainless steel and scrap metal to special and superalloys. Whether pure or precisely recombined, CRONIMET guarantees its customers exact analyses of all materials. If required, all components are provided in chargeable form for the melting process.
In addition to focusing on scrap, CRONIMET is also working on other innovative ideas to keep valuable metallic raw materials in circulation and to optimize the use of metallic raw materials. The subsidiary CRONIMET Envirotec uses innovative vacuum distillation technology to recover metal residues and filter dust from metal sludge, for example from production processes in the automotive sector, steelworks and foundries, in an environmentally friendly way. These can be returned to the melt in the form of metal briquettes. In Brazil, CRONIMET converts tungsten and molybdenum concentrates into ferro molybdenum and ferro tungsten. We have also built the first FeTi70% plant of Latin America, which is produced with scrap mainly purchased and processed in our EU and US operations. In addition, the FeTi70% and some other products as FeB and Carbon are being produced in our cored wire plant, serving mainly to the Brazilian steel sector a wide range of primary materials.
The CRONIMET Group's company Revomet deals with the recycling of batteries from electric vehicles. From the year 2026, the Bitterfeld site will have its own facility for shredding entire battery packs and then separating them into their various components. This will further advance CRONIMET's efforts to keep valuable metallic raw materials in the cycle.
Global Stainless Steel Inc.
Global Stainless Steel Inc. is a Canadian based company selling stainless flat, long and aluminum flat products on 5 continents. They started in 1996 and they now have offices in Canada, USA, England, Italy, Australia and China. They are unique in that they run service centers, master distribution and trading divisions, giving them a broader understanding of the metals distribution business. Global stainless has stock of 12,000 tons in North America and processing equipment to deliver your needs. Its European business is centered around jit material in stainless flat products processed to size. Stocking programs, processing to size and financing are key offerings of Global's.
Lumturi Stainless Steel
Lumturi is a family-owned business based in Slovakia, currently exporting to over 37 countries as a stockholder of high-quality European stainless steel materials. We are committed to delivering outstanding quality and personalized service, ensuring that we meet the needs of various industries. Our dedication to reliability and sustainability establishes us as a trusted partner for your project needs, with a focus on providing precise support.
Let's build a strong future together.
Silver-Sponsors
Böllinghaus Steel GmbH
Founded in 1889, Böllinghaus Steel is a German-based specialist for stainless steel long products, carried on by its fifth generation. According to international standards, the company produces high-quality standard and custom-made stainless steel profiles. The portfolio includes stainless flat, square, and hexagonal profiles – hot-rolled and cold-drawn.
Today it is a highly specialised and globally active company with more than 250 employees in Germany, Portugal, the USA and Italy. Since 1996, Böllinghaus Steel has been producing in Portugal and supplying its customers worldwide from here. With its own production plant in Portugal, complex customer requirements can be implemented flexible and promptly.
Intensive quality controls, modern production methods and continuous process development ensure optimal solutions. Companies all over the world appreciate the uncomplicated and personal contact they have with Böllinghaus Steel.
Whether standard profiles or custom-made, Böllinghaus Steel manufactures precisely fitting products of the desired grades, dimensions and processing techniques, which are tailored to the individual needs of the customers.
Borsen Stainless Steel Pipe Co.
Borsen was founded early 80s in Istanbul,Turkey. Till 2005, Borsen acted as the biggest distributor of stainless steel long products and fittings to its key markets.
Borsen’s pioneer role in steel business lead the corporation to produce stainless steel welded tubes in its own premises. After this step, Borsen has determined the organisation to operate as double-head and split its operations under Borsen Mills & Borsen Merchandise branches.
Borsen is the first laser welded tube producer of Turkey and capable to produce the core range of welded tubes from 19,00mm up to 219,1mm in both industrial and dairy purposes.
Borsen maintains its operation under 60,000m2 total area with 170 people in various departments to answer every requirements of its partners. By the end of 2024, Borsen has reached export/domestic sales ratio of 40-60 and targeting 50-50 for 2025.
Cogne Acciai Speciali S.p.A.
Cogne Acciai Speciali is a leading Italian manufacturer of stainless steels and nickel alloys long products.
The Company’s activities cover the five main production cycles of the steel industry: steelmaking, casting, rolling, forging and machining.
CAS’ product range includes stainless steels (in form of wire rod, bars, semi-finished products and concrete reinforcing bars), valve steels and nickel alloys. Through its R&D centre, technical expertise, modern equipment and continuous investments the mill has managed to diversify its offer for Mobility, CPI, Aerospace, Power Generation, Construction, Food, Medical and IT.
CAS is strongly committed to ensuring the economic, social and environmental sustainability of its activities, valuing people, the territory and the communities in which it operates, while minimizing the environmental impact of its production. Sustainable Development Goals have been integrated into company’s strategic objectives in order to act in a responsible manner and maintain its leader position on the market.
OMP
OMP helps companies facing complex planning challenges to excel, grow and thrive by offering the best digitized supply chain planning solution on the market. Hundreds of customers in a wide range of industries - spanning consumer goods, life sciences, chemicals, metals, paper and packaging - benefit from using OMP’s unique Unison PlanningTM concept.
Saritas Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.
Viraj Profiles Pvt Limited
Viraj Profiles Pvt Ltd is one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of Stainless Steel long products in the world. With a turnover of USD 1.5 Billion, the company is exporting its stainless steel products (Wire Rods, Wires, Flanges, Fasteners, Bright Bars ,Profiles and Pipes to more than 1300 customers based across 96 countries spread in 6 continents. With a melting capacity of 636,000 tons per annum, the company produces more than 50,000 SKUs in different shapes and sizes with grades like Austenitic, Ferritic, Martensitic, Duplex and Electrode. The core competency of Viraj lies in its integrated manufacturing facilities, which enables it to meet customer-specific requirements.
Bronze-Sponsors
Metals Hub GmbH
Metalshub is one of the pioneers of digital transformation in the metals industry. Founded in 2016, and based in Düsseldorf, Germany, Metalshub operates globally. It is a technology company that provides supply chain solutions for raw materials to promote more efficient workflows. Efficiency, transparency, and compliance are core values of the company. Metalshub is fully impartial and independent with no conflicts of interest.
Oryx Stainless Group
Oryx Stainless Group is one of the leading stainless steel scrap processors. With operations in Europe and Asia, Oryx Stainless serves stainless flat as well as long product producers worldwide. With its excellence in quality and the superiority of its products Oryx Stainless creates the conditions to save more than 2.5mn mt of CO2 emissions per annum.
Venus Pipes
Venus Pipes boasts a rich legacy in the Stainless steel industry spanning over 8 years. We embarked on a transformative journey into Stainless Steel Long product manufacturing in 2015. Our unwavering commitment to excellence has driven us to embrace state-of-the-art production technologies, including Hot Piercing, Pilgers, Tube mills, JCO Forming Press, Draw Benches, Bright and Solution annealing furnaces, and various ancillary machinery. At Venus, we take immense pride in consistently delivering superior quality products that strictly adhere to international standards.
Our expansive production facility spans an impressive 124,000 square meters, strategically located in the Kutch region of India. This prime location provides us with easy access to two major seaports, facilitating efficient logistics and global distribution.
YC INOX CO., LTD.
YC INOX is a global leader in stainless steel manufacturing since 1973 and stands at the forefront of eco-friendly innovation. With high-capacity production facilities, we deliver premium stainless steel pipes, tubes, sheets, plates and coils to industries worldwide. Committed to sustainability and cutting-edge technology, YC INOX ensures top-quality, efficient, and environmentally responsible manufacturing.
YC INOX, Your Choice for STAINLESS.
Join us for three dynamic days of insight, strategy, and networking as we address:
✔️ How Europe’s supply chain can adapt to shifting geopolitical realities
✔️ What’s needed to enhance long-term competitiveness
✔️ The key market trends shaping the future of stainless and special steels
| 1st Delegate | 2nd Delegate | 3rd Delegate | |
| Early Bird Rate (Valid until July 11, 2025) |
EUR 1,950 | EUR 1,360 | EUR 995 |
| Final Rate (valid after July 11, 2025) |
EUR 2,295 | EUR 1,595 | EUR 1,135 |
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