Organized by siderweb – The steel community, 11th Made in Steel opened its doors at Fieramilano Rho on May 6 and concludes on May 8. The event is hosted in Halls 22 and 24 of the fairgrounds on a total exhibition area of more than 35 thousand square meters.
The 11th edition of the international Conference & Exhibition dedicated to the steel supply chain offers opportunities for business and reflection, relationships and knowledge, in addition to being an exhibition showcase and offering conferences, forums and roundtables essential for business growth.
‘The Beauty of Steel’
After the 2021 edition, which came at the tail end of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, and the 2023 edition, marked by recovery, the 11th Made in Steel debuts amid uncertainty due to economic slowdown, conflicts and global geopolitical crises. Despite all this, this year’s event reached 387 exhibiting companies, up 21 percent from the 2023 edition. Of these, 35% came from abroad. ‘The Beauty of Steel’ is the common thread guiding the content proposal and the title of the 2025 edition, which celebrates steel, the friend of progress and people, evoking its strength, shiny modernity and inviting people to discover the intrinsic and cultural value of this material, the protagonist of the sustainable future because it is infinitely recyclable.
The 11th Made in Steel – https://www.madeinsteel.it/ – , as stressed by ceo Paolo Morandi, is a moment of meeting, of comparison for the entire steel supply chain. An event that “falls at a historic moment for the Italian and European steel industry, in a very complex context of great threats and uncertainties. Challenges from which new opportunities can also arise.”
The sector needs a cultural shift
Challenges that need bold choices and concrete actions from Europe, as reminded by Federacciai President Antonio Gozzi: “We can no longer accept that our green power plants pay the most expensive energy in Europe or that the strategic raw material – scrap – continues to leave the Continent. It is time to raise our voices against ideological inertia, against technocratic resistance that blocks any real step forward. We need a cultural shift, a real revolution in European industrial thinking. Italy, with its manufacturing, is only asking for one thing: fair rules to compete on equal terms and continue to innovate under the banner of economic and social, not just environmental, sustainability.”