Behind every successful project is a strong consortium of dedicated partners. In this series, we take a closer look at each project partner, showcasing their expertise, experience, and contribution to our shared journey, starting with K1-MET, our coordinator.
Meet K1-MET
K1-MET is one of Europe’s leading metallurgical research centers, headquartered in Linz and Leoben, Austria.
For almost 25 years, K1-MET has been connecting industry, academia, and research to develop innovative solutions for the metallurgical sector. With a strong focus on resource efficiency, circular economy, decarbonization, and digitalization, K1-MET helps shape the future of sustainable metal production.
K1-MET’s research is centered around three strategic areas:
Area 1: Metallurgical Process Efficiency & Circularity:
Advancing primary and secondary metallurgical processes, recycling technologies, and resource-efficient production.
Area 2: Decarbonization & Sector Coupling:
Developing innovative process and energy solutions that support the transition towards climate-neutral metallurgy.
Area 3: Simulation & Data Analytics:
Applying advanced process modelling, CFD, thermodynamic simulations, and data-driven methods to optimize metallurgical processes and support informed decision-making.
Within CircSmeltSteel, K1-MET plays a central role by coordinating the entire project while also contributing its scientific expertise across multiple work packages:
📌 WP1 – Project Management & Coordination
Ensuring efficient project execution, communication, and collaboration across the consortium.
📌 WP2 – Dissemination & Communication
Maximizing the visibility and impact of the project’s results.
📌 WP5 – Secondary Metallurgy, Casting & Demonstrator Alloy Processing
Contributing advanced process simulation and modelling to support the optimization of secondary metallurgical operations, casting processes, and demonstrator alloy production.
📌 WP9 – Exploitation of Results & Scenarios for Steel Product Applications
Supporting the transfer of project results towards industrial implementation.
📌 WP10 – Project Clustering Activities
Strengthening collaboration with complementary European projects to maximize knowledge exchange, create synergies, and accelerate innovation across the steel sector.
By combining project coordination with scientific excellence, K1-MET helps ensure that CircSmeltSteel not only delivers high-quality research but also creates practical solutions for a more circular, resource-efficient, and low-carbon European steel industry.
Learn more about K1-MET: http://www.k1-met.com
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