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Fero Labs provides industrial AI software that helps steel manufacturers prevent and solve production challenges in minutes instead of weeks. Our platform is built for metallurgists and engineers who already know their processes but need better tools to act quickly when issues arise. Steel producers using Fero typically reduce problem-solving time by 70% and prevent 30% of quality issues entirely. When problems do occur, they're resolved in hours instead of days, significantly reducing material waste, team resources and extending equipment life. Steel manufacturers face constant pressure: quality deviations lead to costly rework, process inefficiencies waste materials and energy, and managing the complexities of recycled feedstock creates unpredictable process variations. Traditional troubleshooting methods are slow, often requiring weeks of manual data analysis and trial-and-error testing. Fero's Profitable Sustainability platform transforms how steel teams work by:
● Identifying process issues hours before they cause problems, not after.
● Pinpointing exact causes of quality deviations in minutes instead of days.
● Providing specific parameter adjustments that reduce alloy use while maintaining quality.
● Enabling teams to test scenarios virtually before implementing changes.
Our customers appreciate that Fero complements their team's expertise while making it remarkably easy for new team members to become experts quickly. The intuitive interface accelerates learning curves and enables seamless knowledge sharing across your organization. For executives facing market volatility and increasing competition in 2025, Fero offers a practical way to improve responsiveness and efficiency throughout your operation with the team you already have.
The Systems Group, family-owned and serving customers for over 50 years, is 100% focused on the steel industry. Our divisions include Systems Plant Services, offering craft labor for maintenance and repairs, and Systems Contracting, which builds new steel mills and expansions with expertise in process piping, steel erection, and equipment setting. Systems Spray-Cooled provides safer cooling solutions for meltshops, while Systems Fab & Machine meets structural steel, plate work, custom steel, machining and pipe fabrication needs. Systems Engineering ensures precise design and installation, and Systems Clean Air ensures clean air for all your critical spaces.
Gold Sponsors
Danieli designs, manufactures, and installs metal-producing plants and equipment worldwide, either on a turnkey basis or supplied as individual units, covering, with company-owned technologies, the whole process cycle, from ore and scrap processing to finished flat, long, tube and extruded products, for ferrous and nonferrous metals. Danieli plants are run by Danieli Automation process control, power and instrumentation systems, and include DIGI&MET smart manufacturing solutions (Industry 4.0). Sustainable production is guaranteed by energy-saving processes and Danieli Environment ecological solutions. With more than 9,000 people, the group operates in 28 countries and across five continents.
Midrex is a global leader in delivering innovative direct reduction technologies and reliable solutions for the iron and steel industry. As the exclusive technology provider for the MIDREX® Process, we specialize in designing direct reduced iron (DRI) plants. Our comprehensive services encompass engineering, proprietary equipment supply and project development. Beyond the commissioning phase, our commitment extends through ongoing support from Midrex Global Solutions, dedicated to aftermarket equipment and services. MIDREX plants span 21 countries, comprising nearly 100 modules and contributing to 80% of the world's low-CO2 DRI.
Headquartered in London, U.K., with offices and service workshops in 15 U.S. locations, Primetals Technologies is a world-leading pioneer in the fields of engineering, plant building and the provision of life cycle services. Our technology, product and services portfolio covers every step of the iron and steel production chain — from raw materials to the finished product. Our latest focus areas include new solutions for even greener steel production, the digitalization of all production-related processes, advanced automation as summed up by the term “Industry 4.0,” future-oriented designs for linked casting and rolling, as well as advanced process analysis and optimization. With thousands of plant-building references and numerous service partnerships, we support our customers in setting new targets and shaping their future in the metals business. Primetals Technologies is a Group Company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with around 7,000 employees worldwide and more than 1,000 in the United States.
Russula is a global engineering firm specialized in rolling mills and water treatment solutions. The company offers a wide variety of services ranging from comprehensive plant building, mill upgrades, digital solutions, and technical assistance to consulting and process troubleshooting. The firm has operated in over 100 steel plants situated across 35 countries worldwide and has developed projects for major U.S. steel producers including United States Steel Corporation, Nucor Corp., Gerdau, CMC and BlueScope. Excellence, reliability, innovation and sustainability are the four core values guiding Russula. These values have enabled the company to establish a strong foundation, positioning them as a trusted partner. Russula assists clients in discovering the best engineering solutions for the most complex challenges within the steel sector, equipping them with the necessary tools to transform, scale and build high-performance businesses. With over three decades of experience in the steel sector, the firm has evolved into a global enterprise across four continents. Russula embraces a digital DNA, focused on data, technology and innovation, aiming for a more sustainable, efficient and safe industry. Russula is committed to leading technological advancements, driving the industrial revolution and shaping a brighter future for younger generations.
Silver Sponsors
AISI serves as the voice of the American steel industry in the public policy arena and advances the case for steel in the marketplace as the preferred material of choice. AISI’s membership is comprised of integrated and electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmakers, steel pipe and tube manufacturers, and steel processors and fabricators, reflecting the production and distribution of both carbon and stainless steels. These steels are critical to America’s national and economic security, including roads and bridges, buildings, the electrical grid, cars and trucks, and all clean energy technologies. AISI also represents associate members who are suppliers to or customers of the steel industry. For more news about steel and its applications, view AISI’s website at www.steel.org. Follow AISI on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter (@AISISteel) or Instagram.
ANDRITZ Metals is a global leader in the metals processing and forming industry. We design and build equipment for processing carbon steel, stainless steel and nonferrous metals. Our products include processing lines, finishing lines, rolling mills and reheat furnaces for all applications. We offer mechanical, electrical, automation, and safety rebuilds and retrofits to make your old equipment better and safer than new. Our expertise covers a wide range of metal equipment, allowing us to supply parts, inspect equipment, and recondition rolls, knives and bearings. We also provide a variety of mechanical and electrical components for other brands. Let us improve your equipment’s performance and safety with our comprehensive solutions.
FIMI Group is a global technology leader with more than 60 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, and commissioning advanced machinery and complete processing lines for ferrous and nonferrous metal coils. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Northern Italy, the group is widely recognized as one of the top international players serving steel mills and service centers worldwide.
With over 1,500 installations across the globe, many still operating at peak performance after decades, FIMI Group delivers proven reliability combined with continuous innovation. The company’s solutions are engineered to maximize productivity, material quality, and operational efficiency, while meeting the highest standards of safety and sustainability.
FIMI Group’s strength lies in its ability to provide fully integrated, high-performance solutions, covering the entire life cycle of a plant — from engineering and manufacturing to installation, advanced automation, after-sales service, upgrades, and revamping. Several of the group’s core technologies and process solutions are protected by international patents, reflecting a strong commitment to research, development and long-term customer value.
The group’s key product lines include:
- Leveling and Cut-to-Length
- Slitting and Trimming
- Recoiling and Inspection
- Automatic Packaging
- Processing (Degreasing, Pretreatment, Coating)
- Electrowelded Tube and Pipe Mills
With operations and service support in Europe, the Americas and Asia, FIMI Group ensures fast response times and close collaboration with customers worldwide.
FIMI Group’s participation in the Global Steel Dynamics Forum marks its first official presence at this U.S. event and underlines the company’s strategic commitment to strengthening partnerships and driving innovation within the North American steel industry.
For over 35 years, IAC has been a trusted partner to steel producers seeking high-performance, reliable and cost-effective process solutions — and now, we’re helping lead the charge toward cleaner, greener steelmaking. As a premier EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor, OEM (original equipment manufacturer) and custom fabricator, IAC delivers full turnkey systems designed to reduce emissions, increase efficiency and support the transition to green steel production. We specialize in the design, fabrication and installation of baghouse meltshop ventilation systems, EAF dust handling and storage, rail load-out infrastructure, automated alloy delivery systems, and biochar material handling solutions — all tightly integrated with advanced automated controls to maximize environmental performance and operational reliability. With over 7,500 baghouses in operation, many of them in high-demand steel applications, IAC is a proven leader in air pollution control, helping steel mills meet increasingly strict environmental regulations while maintaining high throughput and uptime. Our systems are built to perform in the most demanding conditions, capturing fine particulate and furnace fumes efficiently and effectively. Whether you’re building a new greenfield plant, upgrading for cleaner operations or expanding to meet growing demand, IAC offers full life cycle project support — from front-end engineering through construction, commissioning and aftermarket service. Our experienced engineering and field teams work alongside you to solve complex challenges and future-proof your operations.
We specialize in the design, fabrication, and installation of baghouse mel tshop ventilation systems, EAF dust handling and storage, rail loadout infrastructure, automated alloy delivery systems, and biochar material handling solutions—all tightly integrated with advanced automated controls to maximize environmental performance and operational reliability.
Steel Dynamics is a leading industrial metals solutions company, with facilities located throughout the United States and in Mexico. The company operates using a circular manufacturing model, producing lower-carbon-emission, quality products with recycled scrap as the primary input. Steel Dynamics is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metal recyclers in North America, combined with a meaningful downstream steel fabrication platform. The company is also currently investing in aluminum operations to further diversify its product offerings, with plans to supply aluminum flat-rolled products with high recycled content to the countercyclical sustainable beverage can industry, in addition to the automotive and industrial sectors. Steel Dynamics is committed to operating with the highest integrity and to being the safest, most efficient producer of high-quality, broadly diversified, value-added metal products.
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