ANNOUNCEMENT: Steel Summit 2025

Steel Summit 2025, an event organized by SteelRadar, will take place in Turkey on May 15-16.

Steel Summit 2025 will bring together steel industry leaders, investors and experts from around the world to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the sector. The summit will address issues such as the green transformation in steel production, scrap management strategies, price trends and global market dynamics. The event will offer not only information exchange and analysis of the sector, but also unique networking opportunities.

Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss the macroeconomic outlook for the Turkish steel industry and global market trends, the scrap market, the country’s trade dynamics and Turkey’s strategic importance. Opportunities for transformation in the sector through technologies that can help achieve green steel goals will be assessed.

The future of the Turkish steel market will be discussed in the light of economic trends and price dynamics. In addition, the summit will address the issue of increasing Turkey’s global competitiveness through value-added products and export strategies.

Steel Summit 2025 offers a wide range of participants and is expected to be attended by professionals from the following sectors
steel producers and traders,

  • suppliers of raw materials and scrap,
  • technology and innovation leaders,
  • steel service centers,
  • logistics and finance experts,
  • decision-makers, industry leaders and investors,
  • international participation and global expansion.

Steel Summit 2025 will host participants from the world’s leading steel production and trading regions, including Europe, the United States, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia Pacific. It will be an outstanding event for experts in various sectors of the steel industry.

The program is available here.

Among the participants of the Steel Summit 2025 sessions are:

Cem Öztüre, founder and chairman of SteelRadar,

Feyyaz Yazar, member of the Executive Committee of İzmir Demir Çelik (İDÇ),

Veysel Yayan, Secretary General of the Turkish Steel Producers Association (TÇÜD),

Mehmet Çakmur, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Kocaer Steel,

Stanislav Zinchenko, CEO of GMK Center,

Alessandro Sciamarelli, Director of Market Analysis, European Steel Association (EUROFER),

Josu Pina Bilbao, Vice President, Business Development and Commercial Transformation, SSAB,

Su Buxin, Deputy Secretary General of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (MC-CCPIT),

Alia El Mahdi, Professor of Economics at Cairo University, former Chairman of the Egyptian Iron and Steel Association (EISA), and others.

GMK Center is the media partner of the event.

Registration is available here.

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