RINA CONSULTING – CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI S.P.A. (Italy) experts in materials and industrial processes based on experimental activities and theoretical evaluations by simulation/modelling activities.

VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH (BFI) is a private-sector institute for applied research and development in the field of steel technology. The main object of institute’s work is the optimisation of steel production processes under economic and quality aspects.

K1-MET is one of the leading and internationally renowned metallurgical competence centres for ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy situated in Austria and employs more than 90 researchers. Research is distributed into three areas:

Area 1 – Metallurgical Process Efficiency & Circularity,

Area 2 – Decarbonisation & Sector Coupling

Area 3 – Simulation & Data Analyses.

The in-depth understanding of the continuous casting process at K1-MET is based on extensive modelling activity and corresponding validation of models through lab experiments, industrial plant data and experiences.

SIDENOR I+D is the research and development centre of SIDENOR. It has a head count of 46 persons (87% of them are PhD and engineers) working in 2 departments: Process and Product. It has its own Research Laboratory, which is equipped with modern test facilities both for metallurgical characterization as for physical simulation. It also has capabilities for numerical simulation through the use of both commercial (FEM, etc.) as well as its own developed software.

SWERIM is a member of the Swerea Group and a prominent Metallurgical Research Institute in Europe. SWERIM creates, improves and conveys research results within the areas of process metallurgy, heating, machining, and energy technologies for the mineral, steel and metal industries. SWERIM has 90 employees (55 research engineers).