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Hamideh Hassanpour from K1-MET GmbH won the Best Poster Award at ESTAD 2025

Hamideh Hassanpour from K1-MET GmbH won the Best Poster Award for her poster presentation entitled “Advancing Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction: Process Simulation, Technical and Environmental Assessment” at the 7^th European Steel Technology and Application Days (ESTAD) in Verona, Italy, from 6 to…

K1-MET at ESTAD 2025

• Verona, Italy
• 6 – 9 October 2025

K1-MET at the Career Fair at the Wels campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria 2025

• University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Campus Wels
• 9 October 2025

Visit of the BMIMI and FFG

K1-MET recently welcomed representatives from the BMIMI and the FFG for a visit to our research center.

K1-MET at “25 Years UAR – Ein Quantum Zukunft”

• Kepler Hall Linz, Austria
• 2 October 2025

K1-MET at the ISMET9 2025

K1-MET participated in the 9^th World Conference of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (ISMET) in Leipzig, Germany.

Publication with K1-MET as a co-author

K1-MET is pleased to share a new publication co-authored by Lina Kieush and Johannes Rieger: “A Comprehensive Review of Secondary Carbon Carriers for Ironmaking and Steelmaking Processes: Industrial Utilization of Non-biogenic Materials in Steel Production”.

K1-MET at the Meet-the-Jury Seminar on “CO2 electroreduction, from scientific rigor to industrial reality”

On 1 October 2025 KULeuven hosted a Meet-the-Jury Seminar on “CO₂ electroreduction, from scientific rigor to industrial reality” with presentations by Nina Plankensteiner from K1-MET and Prof. T. Burdyny from TU Delft.

K1-MET at the 76th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry

• Mainz, Germany
• 7 – 12 September 2025

K1-MET at STEELSIM 2025

• Trinec, Czech Republic
• 2 – 4 September 2025

Welcome to the K1-MET team

Katharina Muster works as Assistant at K1-MET. She started her work on 25 August 2025.

K1-MET at the ASMET Materials Workshop at the European Forum Alpbach 2025

• Alpbach, Austria
• 20 August 2025

K1-MET has been nominated for the diversity4innovation AWARD 2025!

At K1-MET, we believe that true innovation happens when people from different backgrounds work together.

Publication with K1-MET as a main author

We are proud to announce the publication of a new peer-reviewed paper in the journal Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B with Daniel Kavic of K1-MET as the main author.

K1-MET at the 9th International Congress on the Science and Technology of Steelmaking (ICS)

• Seoul (South Korea)
• 2 – 5 July 2025

BHM K1-MET Edition July 2025

K1-MET is proud to present its latest research in a special issue of Berg- und Huettenmaennische Monatshefte (BHM), focusing on key challenges like decarbonization, resource efficiency, and digitalization in the steel industry.

K1-MET at the Biochar Summit 2025

• Brussels, Belgium
• 10 – 11 June 2025

K1-MET at the ESTEP Spring Dissemination Event 2025

• Krakow (Poland)
• 5 June 2025