Over the last decades innovation is one of the crucial triggers for development of steel industry. Nowadays it focuses on: process simplification, acquisition of new qualities, advanced control of processes and surface technologies etc. Many of photonics technologies are used for those purposes (optical metrology, optical spirometry, multi- and hiperspectral imaging, LIBS, laser marking, LUT, Lock-in Th., thermophotonics, Tailored Welded Blanks, Artificial Vision etc.).

Together with AIMEN Technology Centre, PLATEA and Fótonica 21, we organise a debate on applied photonics for steel which include such topics as:

– photonics for steelworks

– photonics for laminations

– photonics for covering

– R&D funding opportunities for innovation in steel industry.