Daniel Kavic of K1-MET has received the 2025 Ladle & Secondary Refining Best Paper Award

We are proud to announce that Daniel Kavic (K1-MET GmbH), together with Michael Bernhard (Technical University of Leoben), Roman Roessler (voestalpine Stahl GmbH), and Christian Bernhard (Technical University of Leoben), has received the prestigious 2025 Ladle & Secondary Refining Best Paper Award from the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST).

The award-winning paper, “Simulation of Secondary Metallurgical Processes Using Computational Thermodynamics and Comprehensive Statistical Learning Methods,” was selected by the AIST Ladle & Secondary Refining Technology Committee as the best technical paper in its field.

We congratulate Daniel and all co-authors on this outstanding recognition and thank them for driving innovation in secondary steelmaking.