Innovations for Sustainable Slag Management

Luleå/Duisburg, June 17, 2026. The steel industry’s transition to largely low-carbon production processes has far-reaching implications for the properties and potential applications of slag. The challenges and prospects for the future use of these valuable byproducts—for example, in construction materials and fertilizers—and what practical solutions might look like were central topics at the 13th EUROSLAG Conference, held June 16–18, 2026, in Luleå, Sweden.

13th EUROSLAG Conference on the Future of Slags

Duisburg, 15 April 2026. Slag is a high-quality by-product of industrial manufacturing processes, such as those in the steel industry, and has long been used as a building material and fertiliser in a way that protects the climate and conserves resources. Every two years, international experts gather at the European Slag Conference to discuss topics related to science, applications, regulatory frameworks, and the environment.

EUROSLAG figures for 2024 on the production and use of ferrous slag

Duisburg, November 28, 2025. In 2024, approximately 19.6 million tons of blast furnace slag (BFS) and 16.5 million tons of steel slag (SMS) were produced in the European Union. Additional extraction of temporarily stored blast furnace slag made a total of around 38 million tons of ferrous slag available. Of this, 35 million tons, or 92 percent, was used as building materials and fertilizers, as well as in other applications.

International conference on ferrous slags

Duisburg, 6 March 2024. Decarbonization and transformation, resource conservation and circular economy: The enormous economic and ecological challenges can only be overcome at an international level. This also applies to ferrous slag and the products made from it. Under the title „Slag for the Future, the Future of Slags“, the European network EUROSLAG is organizing its 12th conference from 23 to 25 October in Bilbao.

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Our privacy policy is structured as follows:

  1. Information about us as controllers of your data
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  3. Information about the data processing
 
I. Information about us as controllers of your data

The party responsible for this website (the „controller“) for purposes of data protection law is:

Euroslag – The European Slag Association
Bliersheimer Str. 62
47229 Duisburg
Germany

Telephone: 02065 – 99450
Fax: 02065 – 994510
Email: info[at]euroslag.org

 
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The Google Analytics service is used to analyse how our website is used. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimisation, and economic operation of our site.

Usage and user-related information, such as IP address, place, time or frequency of your visits to our website will be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. However, we use Google Analytics with what is called the anonymisation function, whereby Google truncates the IP address within the EU or the EEA before it is transmitted to the US.

The data collected in this way is in turn used by Google to provide us with an evaluation of visits to our website and what visitors do once there. This data can also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and of the internet in general.

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LEGAL NOTES

www.euroslag.org is made available by:

EUROSLAG – The European Slag AssociationBliersheimer Straße 62
47229 Duisburg
Germany

Phone: +49 2065 9945-38
Fax: +49 2065 9945-10
E-Mail: info(at)euroslag.org

Registry of Association: Amtsgericht Duisburg
Registry-No.: VR 4218

VAT: Exempted from Value-Added Tax according to § 19 (1) of the German VAT code (UStG)

Representation of the Association

The Association shall be represented by the chairman and a member of the board. If the chairman is prevented from attending, the Association shall be represented by two members of the board.

Chairman:

Thomas Reiche
c/o EUROSLAG, Bliersheimer Straße 62, 47229 Duisburg, Germany

Members of the board:

Gert De Beule
Sander Everstein 
Cyril Florentin 
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Merkel 
Dr. Marko Mäkikyrö 
Santiago Oliver
Thomas Reiche
Mike Wharton

c/o EUROSLAG, Bliersheimer Straße 62, 47229 Duisburg, Germany

Responsible editor
according to § 55 II RStV

Thomas Reiche
c/o EUROSLAG, Bliersheimer Straße 62, 47229 Duisburg, Germany

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