Beschreibung
The global steel industry in transition: investment, automation and the path to low-carbon steel
This double issue of MPT International covers a steel industry that keeps investing in capacity and modernisation while technology changes fast. It includes international project news, a Euroblech 2026 special, plant technology reports, and first-hand coverage of the 4th ISIJ-VDEh-Jernkontoret Symposium in Japan.
What’s inside:
- International industry and orders: Mongolia expands domestic steel and copper processing, and North America advances mining and pellet projects. Inteco acquires Plakoma, and IMS Messsysteme invests in Secopta’s LIBS technology. The issue also covers continuous caster modernisations, new minimills and secondary metallurgy upgrades at thyssenkrupp Steel, SSAB, Nucor, Kardemir and others.
- Business and politics: The European Parliament’s position on extending CBAM to downstream products, and Future Forgeworks’ scrap-based rebar mill in Australia, which uses an SMS group CMT 365 mill.
- Special: Euroblech 2026 (Hanover, 20–23 October): Smart, resource-efficient sheet metal production. Featured are Trumpf’s next-generation TruPunch 5000, Prima Power’s integrated manufacturing systems, Hymson’s expansion in Europe, Schröder’s robot-free automated folding, and Boge’s compressed-air and nitrogen solutions.
- Special: Plant Tech: Radar sensors take over slag basin monitoring at Georgsmarienhütte. A second report looks at designing robust wastewater filtration for steel mills.
- Green News: Google buys environmental attribute certificates from Stegra. The section also tracks European EAF projects and decarbonisation updates from Voestalpine, HKM, Tosyali, Košice and ArcelorMittal.
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Research:
- A modified co-sintering route that recycles iron-bearing waste (SAIL).
- POSCO’s work on 6.5% silicon electrical steel for e-motors.
- Results from 24 months of North Sea testing of duplex stainless steels for offshore structures.
- Report from Japan: Steel’s green transition seen through Germany, Japan and Sweden, with three different paths to low-carbon steel production.