The Future Steel Forum is at the forefront of innovation, bringing together industry leaders, technology pioneers, and key decision-makers to explore the future of steelmaking. This event would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors, whose commitment to digital transformation, sustainability, and smart manufacturing is driving progress across the industry.
We are proud to acknowledge and thank our 2026 sponsors for their invaluable contributions. Below, you’ll find a list of our sponsors and the areas they are supporting; each playing a crucial role in making this year’s forum a success.
ABB is a trusted partner and leading supplier to the metals industry, delivering a broad portfolio of integrated electrification, automation, metallurgical and digital solutions. Its extensive global footprint serves the complete steel, aluminium and other metals value chain. Drawing on over 100 years of experience, ABB collaborates with metals producers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other suppliers to develop process-specific and customized solutions that optimize production, improve sustainability, quality and safety – while driving the transition to autonomous plants and a more circular economy.
Thank you to ABB for sponsoring our Delegate Bags
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. We provide process solutions for flow, level, pressure, analytics, temperature, recording and digital communications, optimizing processes in terms of economic efficiency, safety & environmental impact.
Our customers come from various industries, including chemical, food & beverage, life sciences, power & energy, mining, minerals & metals, oil & gas and water & wastewater.
Thank you to Endress + Hauser AG for sponsoring Notepads + Pens
Pesmel is a global technology leader in intelligent warehousing and intralogistics.
With over 600 deliveries during past five decades Pesmel is a benchmark in digitalizing and automating customers’ material flows and logistics chains.
Working in close cooperation with companies in the pulp and paper, steel and aluminium and automobile tire industries, Pesmel provides tailored and competitive solutions reaching from simulation and engineering to full-scope delivery and life-cycle customer support. Pesmel corporate values of expertise, innovation and passion reflect the company’s in-depth knowledge, ambition to renew and rethink, and desire to collaborate as one agile team with the customer organizations.
Thank you to Pesmel for sponsoring the Registration and Badges/Lanyards
The SMS group unites global players in plant and machinery construction for processing steel and NF metals, operating under the roof of SMS Holding GmbH
The family-owned company – now run by the fourth generation – stands out with its strong market position and corporate culture of responsibility, together with high-performance products and services tailored to individual customer requirements.
The SMS group combines the flexibility of medium-sized company units with the vast resources of a global group.
Thank you to SMS Group for sponsoring the Conference
ABS specializes in the production of special long steels and offers a unique range worldwide in terms of both quality and product variety.
ABS Acciaierie Bertoli Safau was founded in 1988 in Cargnacco through the merger of two highly experienced and qualified steelworks: “Officine Bertoli,” established in 1813, and “Safau.” With a turnover of approximately one million euros and around 1,400 employees, ABS represents the Steelmaking division of the Danieli Group.
The company’s production and headquarters are located in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, with an additional manufacturing plant in Croatia (ABS SISAK), a research center in Metz (ABS Centre Métallurgique), as well as commercial offices in Germany, Sweden, and Spain.
ABS specializes in the production of special long steels and offers a unique range worldwide in terms of both quality and product variety. Production is entirely based on the scrap cycle, using 95% recycled raw materials.
ABS Acciaierie is committed to an ambitious industrial and ESG plan aimed at increasing market share and reducing carbon intensity by 30% by the year 2030.
Thank you to ABS for sponsoring the plant tour.
Primetals stand at the forefront of innovation for the global metals industry for their partners, customers, and communities, who expect them to push the boundaries of production for a sustainable world.
From the latest solutions for green steel production to digitalizing the entire production process, they forge a path towards sustainable production, ensuring the optimal solution for each producer. As a reliable service provider and supplier, the countless references in plant building and service partnerships demonstrate their commitment to their customers’ success and growth. From turnkey projects and new production lines to upgrades, engineering, and metallurgical services, they build close partnerships with their customers to ensure that their operations and profits remain sustainable.
Thank you to Primetals for being our lunch sponsor.
Fives designs and manufactures machines, process equipment and production lines for the world’s largest industrial groups.
From the first railway lines to the elevators in the Eiffel Tower and industry 4.0, for more than 200 years, Fives has been designing breakthrough technologies and solutions that create industry. As a pioneer of decarbonization and digitalization, Fives is always one innovation ahead thanks to its ability to anticipate customer needs. Fives is able to provide both environmental and economic performance in 25 countries, responding to the specific needs of each local market thanks to its more than 9,200 employees.Thank you to Fives for being the roundtable sponsor.
Smart Steel Technologies provides ready-to-use software products for the optimization of the steel manufacturing process chain.
Thank you to Smart Steel Technologies for sponsoring our coffee break.
Danieli Automation is the Company, within the Danieli Group, responsible for the transfer of technological know-how from other Danieli technological divisions to end users, supplying the interface between plant process and operator.
Through 45 years’ experience and over 400 plants operating worldwide, Danieli Automation assures the perfect integration of the different process units for a totally efficient production plant.
Thank you to Danieli Automation for sponsoring the Wi-Fi.
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