Scientific Programme

Resources effiency in the non ferrous industry - optimization and improvement

The 6th international European Metallurgical Conference, EMC 2011, will be held in Düsseldorf at the Congress Center Düsseldorf (CCD) in June 2011.

Organized by the GDMB, the German Society for Mining, Metallurgy, Resource and Environmental Technology, the conference will be focused on the efficiency improvements for resources and energy in the non-ferrous industry based on the primary and recycling metals industry.

The increasing energy costs, the more complex resources and scraps leads to the point, that the new as well as the existing material and energy flows has to be optimized or new designed. Therefore the process efficiencies and the energy recoveries and savings are the major topics of this conference.

These themes are quiet interesting for the metals-producer, equipment manufactures, engineering companies and consulting business and manufacturers of heat and energy system.

Over three days EMC 2011 will deal with the following topics:

• Resources availability, utilisation and conservation
• Advances in the winning and refining of non-ferrous base-, light-, precious- and minor metals
• Downstream manufacturing and novel applications
• High-tech developments and new products (Bio, Nano, etc.)
• Developments and trends in recycling of complex materials, waste minimization and waste treatment
• Energy constraints, savings, alternative energies
• Enhanced environmental control in compliance to environmental regulations, total quality management
• Process control modelling and optimisation for productivity increase
• Enhancement of technical education and professional further education
• Consolidation in the non-ferrous metal industry structures for improved competitiveness
• Sustainability considerations: economic, ecological and political aspects