International Stainless & Special Steel Conference 2022

Date:
Tuesday, September 20 to Thursday, September 22, 2022
Location:
Hamburg, Germany
Venue:
Privathotel Lindtner Hamburg
Motto:
Stainless 2022: Battle of the Global Supply Chains

Stainless & Special Steel Conference is back in 2022!

After a successful event in Como, Italy, with more than 200 participants from the entire stainless steel supply chain, we will gather in Hamburg, Germany, in 2022.

We will meet from Sept. 20 - 22, 2022 in order to discuss the current state of the global stainless & special steel industry and all relevant issues that will shape the business in 2023 and beyond.

We look forward to seeing you there!


Platinum-Sponsor


Gold-Sponsors


Silver-Sponsors


Bronze-Sponsors


Exhibitors


Supporting Organization

The following agenda is preliminary. Timing of sessions, speaker names, and presentation titles may be subject to change.

Optional Field Visit to Voss Edelstahl
Monday, September 19, 2022
13:00
Gathering in Hotel Lobby
13:30
Bus leaves to Voss
14:00
Greetings
Markus Fischer, Managing Director, Voss Group Europe, Germany
Thorsten Studemund, CEO, Voss Group Europe, Germany
14:45
Lunch
15:45
Visit of different digital controlled high shelf stock systems and processes in Voss
18:15
Bus returns to Conference Hotel
18:45
Networking Welcome Cocktail Reception @ Privathotel Lindtner sponsored by Acerinox
Day 1
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
08:00
Registration desk opens
Keynote Panel
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
09:00
Chairman's Opening Remarks
09:15
Keynote Presentation: Market trends and challenges
Pablo Cantle, Commercial Director, Acerinox Europe, UK
09:45
Keynote Presentation: Environmental needs are reshaping Stainless Steel Industry
Timoteo Di Maulo, CEO, Aperam, Luxembourg
10:15
Networking Refreshment Break sponsored by CBMM | Niobium
11:00
Steel and metals distribution in times of material shortages and volatile prices
Thorsten Studemund, CEO, Voss Group Europe, Germany
11:20
Keynote Panel Discussion
Pablo Cantle, Commercial Director, Acerinox Europe, UK
Zhiyong Chai, Executive Vice President, CSSC - Chinese Stainless Steel Association, China
Tim Collins, Secretary-General, worldstainless, Belgium
Timoteo Di Maulo, CEO, Aperam, Luxembourg
Thorsten Studemund, CEO, Voss Group Europe, Germany
12:00
STS Executive of the Year Award
12:30
Networking Lunch sponsored by Böllinghaus Steel GmbH
Distribution & End Use
Chairman: Wolfgang Lipp, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
14:00
The hard fight for sustainability seen from a distributors perspective
Michael Lund, Group CEO, Damstahl, Denmark
14:15
Interviews with distributors
Joaquim Boixareu, CEO, Irestal Group, Spain
Michael Lund, Group CEO, Damstahl, Denmark
14:35
Interviews about end use industries (oil & gas, energy and home appliances)
Norbert Heinzle, Managing Director, H. Butting GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Clemens Schneider, Director Global Purchasing Stainless Steel, BSH Hausgeraete GmbH, Germany
15:00
Networking Refreshment Break sponsored by CBMM | Niobium
15:30
Fireside Chat
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Timoteo Di Maulo, CEO, Aperam, Luxembourg
Hartwig Härtel, President, Böllinghaus Steel GmbH, Germany
Frank Koch, CEO, Swiss Steel Holding AG, Switzerland
Roberto Marzorati, Vice President, Cogne Acciai Speciali S.p.A., Italy
Jürgen Pilarsky, CEO & Managing Director, Cronimet Holding GmbH, Germany
Bernardo Velázquez, CEO, Acerinox S.A., Spain
17:00
End of Day 1
17:15
Bus leaves for Boat Trip in front of Lindtner Hotel
18:00
Networking Boat Trip sponsored by Cronimet
20:00
Bus returns to Privathotel Lindtner
Day 2
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Raw Materials - Clean Stainless with Scrap
Chairman: Robert Messmer, Market Analyst, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
09:00
Chairman’s opening remarks
09:05
Green Scrap, the key ingredient for Green Steel
Filipe Costa, CEO, Cronimet Envirotec GmbH, Germany
09:25
Recycling – The Role of Scrap in the Circular Economy
Gerhard Pariser, VP ELG Group Strategy, ELG GmbH, Germany
Donald Weir, CEO, ELG GmbH, Germany
09:45
Stainless scrap recycling: change in paradigma after 7/8th of March?
Tobias Kämmer, CEO, Oryx Stainless Holding, Germany
10:00
Panel Q&A
Filipe Costa, CEO, Cronimet Envirotec GmbH, Germany
Tobias Kämmer, CEO, Oryx Stainless Holding, Germany
Gerhard Pariser, VP ELG Group Strategy, ELG GmbH, Germany
Donald Weir, CEO, ELG GmbH, Germany
10:20
Networking Refreshment Break sponsored by CBMM | Niobium
11:00
Raw Materials - Nickel
Chairman: Jim Lennon, Managing Director, Red Door Research, Ltd - Senior Consultant – Commodities Strategy, Macquarie Bank (Europe) Limited, UK
11:00
Chairman’s opening remarks
11:05
Enabling a Sustainable future
Barry Jackson, Principal Market Intelligence Ni & STS Raw Materials, AngloAmerican Marketing Ltd, United Kingdom
11:20
Sustainability and Nickel
Mark Mistry, Senior Manager Public Policy, Nickel Institute, Belgium
11:35
Panel Discussion: Nickel
Barry Jackson, Principal Market Intelligence Ni & STS Raw Materials, AngloAmerican Marketing Ltd, United Kingdom
Sebastian Kreft, Managing Director, Metals Hub GmbH, Germany
Robin Martin, Head of Market Development, LME - London Metal Exchange, UK
Mark Mistry, Senior Manager Public Policy, Nickel Institute, Belgium
Mark Selby, Chairman, CEO & Director, Canada Nickel Company Inc., Canada
12:15
Best Price Forecast Award
12:30
Networking Lunch sponsored by Böllinghaus Steel GmbH
Other Raw Materials
Chairman: Robert Messmer, Market Analyst, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
14:00
Niobium (Nb) Bearing Stainless Steels – Helping the Industry to Achieve a More Sustainable Future
Caio Pisano, Technical Market Development Manager, CBMM Niobium, Netherlands
14:15
Chromium markets: not every chrome ore is equal
Görkem Kavcak, Market Research Director, Yildirim Group, Turkey
14:30
Chromium industry in times of sanitary and geopolitical crisis – how do we cope?
Victor Constant, Market Research Analyst, ICDA - International Chromium Development Association, France
14:45
Molybdenum Market Overview
Chris Gnann, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Climax Molybdenum Company, USA
15:00
Panel Discussion
Victor Constant, Market Research Analyst, ICDA - International Chromium Development Association, France
Chris Gnann, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Climax Molybdenum Company, USA
Görkem Kavcak, Market Research Director, Yildirim Group, Turkey
Caio Pisano, Technical Market Development Manager, CBMM Niobium, Netherlands
15:30
Networking Refreshment Break sponsored by CBMM | Niobium
Macroeconomic & Industry Outlook, ESG impacts on financing
Chairman: Wolfgang Lipp, Vice President, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
16:00
Clean mobility
Angel Ramirez, Global Commodity Director, Steel, Tube and Welding Wire, Faurecia Clean Mobility, Germany
16:20
Economic outlook , supply shortages and the implications for inflation and monetary policy
Stefan Schilbe, Chief Economist Germany, HSBC Deutschland, Germany
16:50
Whats ahead for Stainless Steel in 2023 and Beyond?
Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
17:05
Panel Discussion
Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
Angel Ramirez, Global Commodity Director, Steel, Tube and Welding Wire, Faurecia Clean Mobility, Germany
Stefan Schilbe, Chief Economist Germany, HSBC Deutschland, Germany
Martin Vetter-Diez, Managing Director | Head of Commodity Sector Coverage Northern Europe, HSBC Deutschland, Germany
17:40
End of Day 2
18:00
Cocktail Reception @ Privathotel Lindtner sponsored by Damstahl
Day 3
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Technology Keynote Panel - Sustainable & Green Stainless
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
09:00
Chairman's Opening Remarks
09:05
Keynote Presentation: Focus on the key levers to further decarbonize stainless production in Europe
Carlo Morettin, Chief Sustainability Officer, Aperam, Belgium
09:25
Keynote Presentation: Accelerating Business through Digital Transformation
Antonio Gayo, Corporate Strategy Director, Acerinox S.A., Spain
09:45
A look into the future - The challenges for a medium-sized stainless steel producer
Philip Torger, Business Development Manager, Böllinghaus Steel GmbH, Germany
10:00
Networking Refreshment Break sponsored by CBMM | Niobium
10:40
Improving Sustainability in Stainless Steelmaking
Bernhard Voraberger, Head of Technology Converter Steelmaking, Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH, Austria
11:00
Tracing quality and sustainability data (e.g. CO2 footprint) of steel product
Stefan Grüll, Co-Founder and CEO, S1Seven GmbH, Austria
11:20
Panel Discussion
Antonio Gayo, Corporate Strategy Director, Acerinox S.A., Spain
Stefan Grüll, Co-Founder and CEO, S1Seven GmbH, Austria
Carlo Morettin, Chief Sustainability Officer, Aperam, Belgium
Philip Torger, Business Development Manager, Böllinghaus Steel GmbH, Germany
Bernhard Voraberger, Head of Technology Converter Steelmaking, Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH, Austria
Michael Walter, Senior Manager, OMP, Belgium
12:30
Networking Lunch sponsored by Böllinghaus Steel GmbH
The new energy reality – LNG and accelerating development of hydrogen supply
Chairman: Markus Moll, Managing Director, SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research GmbH, Austria
14:00
Solutions to decarbonisation and a harsh energy supply reality
Joachim von Schéele, Director Global Commercialization, Linde plc, Germany
14:20
Turbulent energy markets – quo vadis?
Alexander Lück, Head of Sales, VNG Handel & Vertrieb GmbH, Germany
14:40
Panel Discussion
Alexander Lück, Head of Sales, VNG Handel & Vertrieb GmbH, Germany
Jesse Scott, Professor, Hertie School of Governance, Germany
Joachim von Schéele, Director Global Commercialization, Linde plc, Germany
15:30
End of Conference

Tuesday, September 20

Keynote Panel Distribution & End Use Fireside Chat

Wednesday, September 21

Raw Materials - Clean Stainless with Scrap Raw Materials - Nickel Other Raw Materials Macroeconomic & Industry Outlook, ESG impacts on financing

Thursday, September 22

Technology Keynote Panel - Sustainable & Green Stainless The new energy reality – LNG and accelerating development of hydrogen supply

Stainless & Special Steel Conference 2021 will take place in the following venue:

Privathotel Lindtner Hamburg
Heimfelder Strasse 123, 21075 Hamburg, Germany

 

Alternative Hotel:

As an alternative, we suggest Panorama Hotel Harburg, which can be reached within around 15 minutes by bus. The bus stop is located directly in front of Lindtner hotel. Buses are running every 10 minutes.

Representatives from the following companies will attend the event (the list will be updated regularly):

  • AAMOR INOX LIMITED, India
  • Abaxx Exchange, USA
  • ACCIAIERIA ARVEDI SPA (AST), Italy
  • Acciaierie Valbruna S.p.A., Italy
  • Acerinox S.A., Spain
  • Agora Energiewende, Germany
  • Ahlstrom Munksjo AB, Sweden
  • Ambica Steels Ltd, India
  • Anglo American Marketing Ltd., UK
  • Aperam, Luxembourg
  • Argus Media, UK
  • Bayern LB, Germany
  • BGH Edelstahlwerke GmbH, Germany
  • BGR, Germany
  • Böllinghaus Steel GmbH, Germany
  • Breitenfeld Edelstahl AG, Austria
  • BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Germany
  • BWS Philipp Boecker + Wender Stahl GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
  • Canada Nickel Company Inc., Canada
  • CBMM Niobium, Netherlands
  • CCMA LLC, USA
  • Central Wire Industries Ltd., Canada
  • Centro Inox, Italy
  • Climax Molybdenum Company, USA
  • Cogne Acciai Speciali S.p.A., Italy
  • CONDOROIL STAINLESS S.r.l., Italy
  • CRONIMET, Germany
  • CUMIC STEEL LIMITED, China
  • Dacapo Stainless GmbH, Germany
  • Daido Steel Group Europe GmbH, Germany
  • Damstahl, Denmark
  • DANGO & DIENENTHAL Maschinenbau GmbH , Germany
  • Deutsche Edelstahlwerke Services GmbH, Germany
  • Deutsche Nickel GmbH, Germany
  • Elkem ASA, Silicon Products, Norway
  • Enel Green Power S.p.A., Italy
  • Eramet Marketing Services, France
  • EURANIMI, Belgium
  • Euromet SA, Switzerland
  • Faurecia Clean Mobility, Germany
  • fischer Edelstahlrohre GmbH, Germany
  • Fives Stein, France
  • Focus Rostfrei, Germany
  • Frankstahl, Austria
  • GEA, Germany
  • Glencore International AG, Switzerland
  • GLOBUS 8 ALLOYS PTE LIMITED, Singapore
  • GSA, Albania
  • GURTA AG, Switzerland
  • H. Butting GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
  • HARALD PIHL GmbH, Germany
  • Hartmann Rauta OY, Finland
  • HEK Hansa Edelstahl Kontor GmbH, Germany
  • helviX GmbH, Germany
  • Hempel Intermetaux SA, Switzerland
  • Hempel Holding AG, Switzerland
  • Hertie School of Governance, Germany
  • HILTI AG, Liechtenstein
  • HSBC Deutschland, Germany
  • Ibero Stahl GmbH, Germany
  • ICDA - International Chromium Development Association, France
  • Inox A/S, Denmark
  • INSG - International Nickel Study Group, Portugal
  • Irestal Group, Spain
  • Italinox, Czech Republic
  • Kohler, Mexico
  • Karinox srl, Italy
  • Krogman Metals BV, Netherlands
  • Lemvigh-Müller AS, Denmark
  • Linde plc, Germany
  • Macquarie Bank (Europe) Limited, UK
  • Magotteaux International S.A., Belgium
  • Marcegaglia Specialties, Italy
  • MBR Metals OÜ, Estonia
  • Metalloy Metalle-Legierungen GmbH, Germany
  • Metals Hub GmbH, Germany
  • Montal i Fills, Spain
  • Montanstahl AG, Switzerland
  • MTALX ltd, UK
  • MTL, Poland
  • New Providence Metals Marketing, UK
  • NextInox, Finland
  • Nichel Leghe, Italy
  • Nickel Institute, Belgium
  • NIM Group, USA
  • Nippon Yakin Europe Ltd., UK
  • OMP, Belgium
  • Oryx Stainless AG, Germany
  • OSTP, Sweden
  • Paul Jost GmbH, Germany
  • Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH, Austria
  • POSCO Europe, Germany
  • Purem GmbH, Germany
  • PX-Précimet SA, Switzerland
  • Reibus International GmbH, Germany
  • REMONDIS Production GmbH, Germany
  • Samuel Son & Co., Canada
  • SAUTER EDELSTAHL AG, Switzerland
  • Siegfried Jacob Metallwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
  • SIJ - Slovenian Steel Group , Slovenia
  • SMR - Steel & Metals Market Research, Austria
  • Sometal GmbH, Austria
  • Stahlrump GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
  • STAPPERT Deutschland GmbH, Germany
  • Steel Service Krefeld GmbH, Germany
  • Stena Stal AB, Sweden
  • StoneX Financial Europe GmbH, Germany
  • Sumitomo Metal Mining Co.,Ltd., Japan
  • Swiss Steel Group, Switzerland
  • Technoform Glass Insulation Italia srl, Italy
  • Terni Servizi Tiesse Srl, Italy
  • Tetra Pak Processing Systems AB, Sweden
  • The Metals Risk Team, UK
  • thyssenkrupp Materials Trading GmbH, Germany
  • TSR Metals GmbH & Co. KG, GErmany
  • TUF Metallurgie GmbH, Germany
  • Ugitech SA, France
  • UKF Stainless Limited, UK
  • Vale International SA, Switzerland
  • VDM Metals GmbH, Germany
  • VNG Handel & Vertrieb GmbH, Germany
  • voestalpine High Performance Metals GmbH, Austria
  • Voss Group Europe, Germany
  • Witzenmann GmbH, Germany
  • worldstainless, Belgium
  • Yildirim Group, Turkey
  • Zapp Precision Metals, Germany

Platinum-Sponsor

Aperam

Aperam is a global stainless, electrical and specialty steel producer. With an overall ESG performance consistently receiving top ratings from external analysts, Aperam is a leader in environmental sustainability and corporate responsibility. Aperam is also the first stainless steel company to be certified by ResponsibleSteel™, and its CO2 footprint ranks as one of the industry’s best. With its recent acquisition of ELG, a global leader in stainless steel and super alloys recycling, Aperam is set to drive the circular economy.

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Acerinox SA

ACERINOX is a Global supplier of stainless steels and High Performance Alloys, with factories in four continents and presence in over 100 locations worldwide.

Our purpose is to create the most efficient materials for the future, maximizing benefits for society and building value for our stakeholders and a strong long term strategy that remains intact, based on: Excellence, Efficiency, Adding Value, Strong Balance Sheet and Sustainability, integral to
ACERINOX´s DNA.

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Gold-Sponsors

Voss Group Europe

For over 40 years, the Voss Group Europe supplies long products in stainless and carbon steel and aluminium. Guaranteed and exclusive for trade customers only!

Voss digital sales strategy and state-of-the-art logistics give customers 24/7 access to over 9,000 articles and over 12,000 tonnes of steel and aluminium. Available every day from 13 locations in Europe to customers in more than 35 countries.

 

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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 70 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 solid scrap, CRONIMET is also working on other innovative ideas to keep valuable metallic raw materials in circulation. 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.

The CRONIMET Group's newest company, Revomet, deals with the recycling of batteries from electric vehicles. From the end of 2024, 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.

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Silver-Sponsors

Damstahl Group

Damstahl is a family-owned business with +300 employees active in more than 10 European countries. As part of the NEUMO Ehrenberg Group, we support customers in the stainless steel industry on a global scale. Our pride lies in the value we add to your business. Our services within knowledge-sharing in the usage of stainless steel, support to your journey on sustainability, complete logistic solutions including local warehouses, and our digital services all involve THE most important factor, people.


People & Digital in that order, the choice is yours – welcome to Damstahl.

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Climax Molybdenum Company

Climax Molybdenum Company, a subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan, is the world's leading molybdenum producer and supplier. Founded in 1916, our global operations include both primary and byproduct molybdenum mines. Integrated global operations and local customer care provide our worldwide partners with the most reliable supply and highest quality molybdenum and rhenium products.

For detailed information about our metallurgical and chemical products, please contact our sales offices in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

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CBMM | Niobium

World leader in the production and marketing of Niobium products, CBMM has more than 500 customers in 50 countries. Headquartered in Brazil, with regional offices in China, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States, the company supplies cutting-edge products and technology to the infrastructure, mobility, aerospace, healthcare, and energy sectors. The company has a New Business front to support its growth plans through the development of new applications that is focused on accelerating the entry, into the global market, of Niobium technology. In the last 4 years, CBMM has made strategic investments in companies such as Echion and Battery Streak aiming at new developments in Niobium materials for Li-ion batteries. Since its foundation, CBMM has developed projects in Brazil and in several countries around the world to foster the adoption of Niobium technology by several industries. Learn more about CBMM at www.cbmm.com or visit www.niobium.tech to learn more about Niobium technology and its various applications.

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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.

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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.

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Bronze-Sponsors

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.

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Primetals Technologies

Primetals Technologies, Limited, headquartered in London, United Kingdom, is a pioneer and world leader in the fields of engineering, plant building, and the provision of lifecycle services for the metals industry. The company offers a complete technology, product, and services portfolio that includes integrated electrics and automation, digitalization, and environmental solutions. This covers every step of the iron and steel production chain—from the raw materials to the finished product—and includes the latest rolling solutions for the nonferrous metals sector. Primetals Technologies is a Group Company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with around 7,000 employees worldwide. To learn more about Primetals Technologies, visit the company website www.primetals.com.

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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.

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Exhibitors

S1Seven GmbH

S1Seven GmbH is an Austrian start-up founded in 2019. The founding team are experienced managers with many years of industry experience. S1Seven develops and operates a software platform for digitizing today's largely manual processes related to mandatory material test certificates such as for steel, aluminum, copper and plastic. Millions of these are still exchanged on paper or PDF documents between material manufacturers and the processing industry and processed manually today.

S1Seven replaces these documents with machine-readable data. The document properties required by the regulator (unchangeability of the content, authenticity of the creator) can be provided for the first time using cryptographic processes using blockchain technology. The data is exchanged directly between the participants via the platform and replaces complex and technically outdated EDI (electronic data interchange) connections. Existing software systems such as SAP can be connected to the platform via fully certified connectors in the shortest possible time and with a minimum of effort.

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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.

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H. Butting GmbH & Co. KG

BUTTING was founded in 1777 as a coppersmith's. Since then, the family business has grown continuously and shaped the development of metal processing with courage, care and diligence. BUTTING is one of the world's leading processors of stainless steels. The product range encompasses stainless steel welded pipes, clad pipes, spools and plant construction, customised components and vacuum isolated pipes. BUTTING is the global market leader in the field of corrosion resistant subsea linepipes and risers. It has developed into a globally active company and is headed by President Hermann Butting.

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Supporting Organization

Focus Rostfrei

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Stainless 2022 - Battle of the Global Supply Chains

  • What is hot …. and what is not hot in 2022 and 2023?
  • What damage is inflation doing to the European stainless market?
  • Impact of war in Ukraine for stainless steel, raw materials and energy
  • How can a global level playfield be assured?
  • What is the status of the Border Adjustment Mechanism to regulate global CO2 costs?
  • How can we keep the stainless steel supply chains competitive?
  • Re-shoring: can South-East Europe become the workbench of Europe?
  • Is protectionism the only weapon to keep stainless steels markets in the Western World?
  • How can digitalization help to keep our industry competitive?
  • ‘Glocalization’ of so far global supply chains – where does it make sense and where not?
  • Is the container shortage here to stay?
  • How can the Western World secure competitive raw material sources?
  • How can competitive energy sources be guaranteed?
  • How can we grow the stainless market through market development?
  • Is the alloy surcharge a friend or foe of the stainless steel industry in Europe and North America?

Technology 2022 - Tools for a Green and Competitive Special Steel Industry

  • Currently the main focus is on controlling energy costs. Green energy is expensive. Will the GHG reduction targets be taken off the table for some time?
    The steel sustainability challenge – how to reduce our CO2 footprint?
  • Are the CO2 calculation methods harmonized globally (Scope 1, Scope 2, Scope 3)?
  • New digital technologies to track the ESG (environmental social governance) throughout the steel supply chain.
  • Blockchain technology for data and certificate safety in the entire supply chain.
  • Are sufficient hard- and software tools available to digitalize STS production and distribution?
  • Where does digitalization have the main impact in the entire STS supply chain?

The New Energy Reality in the Stainless Steel Industry

  • Europe has the by far highest industrial energy prices globally. Is there a chance that we become energy competitive again – or will the industry leave Europe?
  • Gas and Electricity are key ingredients for STS Mills. What is ahead for this Winter in Europe?
  • Can an EAF based steel mill reduce its gas consumption / ton?
  • What can Brussels do to help our industry?
  • How will the energy surcharges develop?
  • Are the current gas prices really a result of ‘supply and demand’ or are there other factors in Europe?
  • Can gas and electricity prices be de-coupled quickly?
  • Why does ‘sustainable fracking’ without chemicals (developed in Leoben/Austria) not get a chance in Europe?
  • Wind and solar: What is the bottleneck in Europe: Production units or the grid?

Prices are not available for past events.