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The Expo for Decarbonized Industries > ENERGY STORAGE (decarbXpo) is evolving to become the leading trade fair for Power-to-X technologies and products. To achieve this goal, the VDMA (German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association) Power-to-X for Applications work group and Messe Düsseldorf have now signed an agreement. The coming event will take place at the trade fair centre in Dusseldorf/DE from 20–22 September 2022, in parallel to glasstec, the world’s leading trade fair for the glass industry.

For his master thesis Development of Steel, Ceramic and Refractory Composite Filamwents, M. Sc. Serhii Yaroshevskyi (TU Bergakademie Freiberg/DE) received in December 2021 the Theodor Haase Award.

HarbisonWalker International (HWI/US), the largest supplier of refractory products and services in North America, announced in January 2022 that it intends to invest approximately USD 25 million to convert its closed property in Fairfield, Alabama, into Alabama One (AL1) – a manufacturing, service, and distribution hub for steel customers in the southern of USA. Construction will begin during the first quarter of 2022, and the facility is expected to open before the end of 2022.

IMFORMED/GB is delighted to announce that they have teamed up with ANFRE – the Spanish National Association of Manufacturers and Materials to bring you the XI European Congress of Refractory Raw Materials and Machinery.

An agreement to foster the decarbonization of the metals sector in Italy and abroad: Snam/IT, Europe’s largest energy infrastructure operator, and Tenova/IT, leading developer and provider of sustainable solutions for the green transition of the metals industry, committed to conducting joint strategic studies and market analysis to implement specific infrastructure and metals production systems by using green hydrogen.

The organizers invite to take part to the 2022 FIRE-ECerS Summer School: Eco- Design of Refractories which will be held at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany from 28–29 June. A visit of Tata Steel plant in Ijmuiden, The Netherlands, is planned on 30 June.

The countdown is on – companies from all over the world can register for the four trade fairs GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST. The leading international trade fairs with congress and high-calibre programme of side events for foundry technology, castings, metallurgy and thermo process technology will be held in Dusseldorf/DE from 12–16 June 2023. 

The German refractory industry is confident that 2022 will be a good year. Despite all the protective measures against the pandemic, there has been no slump in business. In fact, the member companies have experienced high demand for refractory products. “This positive development and the stable outlook in the customer industries are good reasons to look ahead with confidence,” explained Thomas Kaczmarek, Managing Director of the German Refractories Association.

On 15 November 2021, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre opened the new energy recovery plant at Elkem Salten in the northern part of Norway. The energy recovery plant is closely integrated with the silicon production process at Elkem Salten, utilizing the excess heat from the silicon furnaces to produce electrical power. The plant recovers 28 % of the electrical energy used at Elkem Salten, equal to the power consumption of about 15 000 Norwegian households.