ANNOUNCEMENT: Kallanish Europe Steel Markets 2025

The annual Kallanish Europe Steel Markets conference will be held in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) on June 17-18, 2025. The event will bring together steel industry executives and market participants to discuss the industry’s outlook for 2025.

Expectations for the European steel market for the current year are much more restrained than they were at the beginning of 2024. However, 2025 promises to be the year of implementation of the long-awaited European industrial action plans. Decarbonization is still crucial, but not if it leads to deindustrialization.

The European economy, and especially manufacturing, has not been able to recover from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has disrupted established norms. However, Europe seems to have won the battle against inflation, and lower interest rates may stimulate more borrowing and investment later this year, which in turn will boost steel demand. However, any recovery will remain fragile.

China has become a stronger exporter of manufactured goods, threatening the market share of European industry. At the same time, the re-election of Donald Trump as president of the United States calls into question Europe’s trade with one of its most important trading partners.

In 2025, Europe will need to address these issues, along with the need to ensure competitive energy prices for the region’s steel industry and a smooth transition to the application of the Cross-Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which will come into full effect on January 1, 2026.

The key topics of Kallanish Europe Steel Markets 2025 will be as follows:

• How can Europe decarbonize without deindustrialization?
• Is end-user demand a green shoot or another depressed year?
• Will EU sectoral action plans revive industry?
• To what extent can the EU provide competitive energy for industry?
• Will EU producers be able to regain their share of the domestic market at the expense of imports?
• How harmful will Trump’s tariffs be for EU industrial exports?
• Raw materials – outlook for scrap, iron ore, other metals and green hubs.
• Will geopolitical uncertainty continue to affect investment?
• To what extent will lower interest rates in Europe boost steel demand?
• Can Europe compete with China’s growing exports of manufactured goods?
• Is the EU ready for CBAM and how can it be improved?

The conference agenda is available here.

Among the speakers of the conference are;

• Dr. Henrik Adam, Executive Chairman of Tata Steel Netherlands Holding BV,
• Alexander M. Julius, Member of the Presidium of EUROMETAL,
• Alessandro Sciamarelli, Director of Economic and Market Analysis at EUROFER,
• Gilles Mirol, CMO of Hydnum steel,
• Stephane Tondo, Technical Head of Government Relations and Climate Change at ArcelorMittal Europe,
• Stanislav Zinchenko, CEO of GMK Center,
• Adam Smith, editor-in-chief of Kallanish.

The full list of speakers is available here.

GMK Center is the media partner of the event.

Registration for Kallanish Europe Steel Markets 2025 is available here.