The Steel Sustainability Champion programme seeks to encourage other steel companies to increase their efforts, set higher standards and demonstrate a strong commitment to sustainable development and the circular economy.

First stage completed! Now it is time for the jury to select the 30 best teams for the 2nd step based on criteria such as creativity, technicality, sustainability aspect and execution of ideas. Results expected on April 10!

Thomas Dieudonne, PhD, a research engineer at ArcelorMittal Global R&D will present a paper at the 4th International Conference on Medium and High Manganese Steel conference. The conference will be held in Aachen (Germany) from 1 to 3 April 2019. The presentation will examine the influence of chemical composition on the hydrogen embrittlement (HE) susceptibility of TWIP steels.

From 8 to 12 April 2019, ArcelorMittal will be represented at the ‘What a future for metallurgy!’ seminar organised by the French Metallurgy Network.

In partnership with PV Magazine, ArcelorMittal and Forming AG will hold a webinar on the most recent innovations to increase the durability of solar structures with the latest generation of metallic coated steels. The webinar will take place on Tuesday 2 April 2019 from 15:00 – 16:00.

Pascal Amelot, ArcelorMittal Europe's Commercial Director for Packaging, to speak about Sustainability as a driver of competitiveness for Steel Packaging at the CanTech Grand Tour in Istanbul (25-27 March)

Joining in Car Body Engineering is a major annual conference for automotive welding experts which is held in Bad-Nauheim (Germany) on 9-11 April 2019. ArcelorMittal’s Global Research & Development team is very active in this field and regularly contributes to the conference program. This year, ArcelorMittal R&D experts are going to present two topics to conference delegates: • Resistance spot welding of complex stack-ups... without fusion • Design rules to minimize liquid metal embrittlement (LME) cracking