AIM is glad to announce the 9th European Coke and Ironmaking Congress (ECIC) to be held in 

Bardolino, Italy, on 16-18 October 2024.  

ECIC 2024 will focus on the newest technologies in coke making, sintering, pelletizing, pyrolizing the biomasses and ironmaking (blast furnaces, direct reduction and carbon-based smelting processes). 

The 2025 goal of carbon neutrality and the related intensive efforts of the steel industry will affect  significantly the technologies for iron ore reduction. In this perspective, the shortage of iron ores  matching the requirement for direct reduction by gas and for melting in electric arc furnace makes important proposal of new technologies and devices that can ensure the carbon neutrality even for the coal based routes.  

This congress will focus on technologies that can achieve such a goal improving the efficiency of the existing process, applying the devices that avoid a net emission of green house gases and to point out new routes based on exploitation of biomasses whose net emission is intrinsically neutral. Read more

The XVIIIth International Conference on Electron Microscopy is jointly organized by the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Microscopy Society. Read more

Throughout the years, the EAF meetings have become a key-event for the industrial and academic experts involved in the EAF steelmaking. Not only they allow the improvement of technology, but most important they guarantee the “know-how inheritance”: transfer, sharing and recording of the knowledge within the company at any level. Besides the improvement in process efficiency, continuous measurements and automatic control contribute decisively to all aspects related to safety and environment. On the other hand, the transition to circular economic and the action against the climate change implies new challenges: improvement of scrap quality, use of DRI/HBI, substitution of coal injection, improvement of slag quality, control of slag composition, possible exploitation of hydrogen-burners etc.  The Workshop aims at gathering and sharing information on
all aspects of EAF technology, among delegates with academic and industrial backgrounds. Such an event, capable of bringing together suppliers and manufacturers, will allow the comparison between the current and future needs and will set the ground to satisfy these demands now or in the future.Read more