The pasts 24 and 25 of March, partners of the CiSMA project gathered at the ALBA Synchrotron, located in the Barcelona metropolitan area, to review project progress and define the next steps.
CiSMA aims to foster the use of scrap-based Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steel as a key enabler for a greener circular economy in mass-market sheet metal goods. By promoting recycled steel production routes, the project contributes to reducing the environmental footprint of the steel industry while improving resource efficiency.
The meeting also included a technical visit to ALBA’s state-of-the-art facilities, where participants explored its advanced beamlines and laboratories used for the study of next-generation steels. These infrastructures provide unique capabilities to analyse in-situ phase transformations, segregation phenomena, and material performance, offering valuable insights to support the project’s developments.
This exchange of knowledge has been instrumental in advancing innovative solutions within the CiSMA framework.
The CiSMA project brings together a strong European consortium including Tata Steel Nederland, voestalpine, Volvo Cars, Electrolux Professional, ALBA-CELLS, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Aerobase Innovations AB, CENIM-CSIC, GeMMe@ULiege, Matvision and ESTEP (The European Steel Technology Platform), all working towards boosting sustainability and innovation in the European steel sector.
