Product Categories METEC 2027:

1. Plant and equipment for processing prime and raw

• Handling of ores, coke and other prime materials
• Ore dressing
• Coal preparation
• Pelletizing plants
• Sintering plants
• Briquetting plants
• Coke oven plants
• Scrap preparation plants

2. Plant and equipment for iron making

• Blast furnace plants
• Direct reduction plants
• Smelting reduction plants
• Components, ancillary equipments
• Burden plant, coal injection plant

3. Plant and equipment for steel making

• Basic-oxygen steel making plant
• Electric steel production
• Secondary metallurgy
• Special processes (e.g. argon oxygen ...)
• Components, ancillary equipment
• Deep-desulphurization

4. Plant and equipment for non-ferrous metal production

• Reducing
• Refining
• Smelting
• Hydro-metallurgy, electrochemistry
• Aluminium retrieval/recycling
• Components, ancillary equipment

5. Plant and equipment for casting and pouring of molten 

• Ingot casting
• Continuous casting
• Near-net-shape-casting
• Special processes
• Components, ancillary equipment

6. Plant and equipment for casting and pouring

• Ingot casting
• Continuous casting
• Strip casting
• Special processes
• Components, ancillary equipment

7. Plant and equipment for shaping of steel

• Steckel mills
• Hot strip mills
• Combined thin slab casting and rolling mills
• Plate rolling mills
• Billet and semi-finished product rolling mills
• Section mills
• Combined primary profile casting and rolling mill 
• Bar and wire mills
• Ring rolling mills
• Cold rolling mills
• Skin pass rolling mills
• Strip processing lines
• Tube/pipe production lines
• Finishing lines
• Forging, extrusion and drawing machines
• Powder metallurgy
• Reheating and heat treating furnaces
• Hydroforming
• Rolls for hot rolling mills
• Rolls for cold rolling mills
• Components, ancillary equipment

8. Plant and systems for shaping of non-ferrous metals

• Hot rolling mills
• Cold rolling mills
• Foil rolling mills
• Wire mills
• Strip processing lines
• Dressing and finishing lines
• Forging, extrusion and drawing machines
• Reheating and heat treating furnaces
• Components, ancillary equipment

9. Plant and systems for environmental protection and

• Dust extraction and gas purification
• Recycling and disposal
• Regeneration plants
• Water management and waste water cleaning
• Noise - protecting installation
• Ancillary equipment

10. Electrical engineering and process control technology

• Electrical equipment
• Process control technology and automation
• Data processing and software
• Engineering and technical support

11. Measurement and test technology

• Measurement of physical properties and quantities
• Quality control
• Material testing
• Analysis and laboratory equipment

12. Information processing

• Data processing, hardware and software
• Computation and simulation software
• e-business, e-commerce and IT-solutions

13. Miscellaneous equipment for metallurgical plants

• Iron and steelwork vehicles
• Lifting and conveying systems
• Power transmission engineering, including fluid
• Transport and storage techniques
• Maintenances and repair equipment
• Thermal insulation and refractory materials
• Operating and ancillary materials
• Occupational safety and ergonomics

14. Steel mills

15. Non-ferrous metal works

16. Consultation, planning, services

17. Technical publications, technical periodicals, ...

18. Training

Visitor target groups Germany METEC 2027:

• Iron, steel and non-ferrous metal industry
• Machine supply industry for metallurgical works
• Suppliers of raw and auxiliary materials and processes materials for metallurgical works
• Mechanical engineering
• Electrical engineering industry
• Other processing industries
• Trade and commerce
• Services