Annual report of Steel Institute VDEh 2013 summary of main topics of technical-scientific joint coop
The Stahl-Zentrum in Düsseldorf
The Steel Institute VDEh and the German Steel Federation, with their subsidiaries and associated companies, form the Stahl-Zentrum in Düsseldorf as legally autonomous units. Competences in the production and use of the material steel nationally, in Europe and internationally are consolidated under this umbrella organisation. The aim of the Steel Institute VDEh, founded as a technical association for metallurgy as long ago as 1860, is to encourage the technical, technical-economic and scientific collaboration of engineers in the further development of processes for iron and steel production and the material steel itself. Whereby the Steel Institute VDEh has driven forward joint research and the exchange of experiences in national, European and international joint work. The German Steel Federation (WV Stahl) is the economic policy association of the steel industry in Germany with the aim of effectively representing the steel industry to politicians, business and society.

Read and download the report
Contents
The Stahl-Zentrum in Düsseldorf
The Steel Institute VDEh
International Societies of Steel Institutes (ISSI)
Technical-scientific collaboration
Research at the Stahl-Zentrum
The Steel Research Committee in the Steel Institute VDEh
VDEh Institute for Applied Research (BFI)
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE)
Activities in European research