Metallurgy – Steelmaking & Casting Technology Committee Meeting

23–24 October 2024 • Omni Corpus Christi at 900 N Shoreline Blvd • Corpus Christi, TX, USA

Tour of SDI Sinton

►Agenda (PDF)
►Register or contact ldlugopolski@aist.org

Hotel Arrangements

Omni Corpus Christi at 900 N Shoreline Blvd
Corpus Christi, TX 78401

Reserve by 23 September 2024 for AIST Room Rate of $169/night

For reservations, BOOK HERE.

AIST technology committee members are asked to print out the latest revised meeting agenda from our website one week prior to this meeting.

Wednesday 23 October 2024

7 a.m.
Continental Breakfast—Corpus C

8 a.m.
Meeting—Corpus A

Chair’s opening remarks—Sunday Abraham

Appoint minute-taker

Antitrust guidelines

Membership and attendance

Review and approve minutes of previous meeting

AIST Staff Announcements

Steel Industry Fatalities

Main agenda items

• AISTech session development—Thinium Natarajan
  • Selection of Abstracts (Due by 16 Sept)
  • Determine session structure (Due by 28 Oct) including session titles & session chairs
  • Review Papers Chair and Session Chair instructions and get session chair volunteers
• Finalize AISTech call for papers for next year
  • MSCTC—Use of any system, approach, methodology, or equipment to improve steelmaking product quality, production and/or costs.
• Technology committee award planning

  • MSCTC

• Kent D. Peaslee award 

• Review Continuous Casting roundup
• Technology Training conference
  • Continuous Casting—A Practical Training Seminar

October 2025

International Conferences 

• Automotive Steel International Conference

9–12 March 2025, Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista | Disney Springs® Area, Orlando, FL, USA Call for Abstracts deadline 15 July 2024

• International Rolling Conference, September 2025 
• Micro-alloy Conference, 3-5 June 2025, CO
• Long & Forged, June 2026, Vail
• CC South Korea Study Tour Review—R Moravec

1. Lunch in meeting room <Noon>
2. Discussion items—Heil & Abraham
3. Presentations
   1. Application of Optical Fiber Sensor for Temperature Measurement in the Tundish Refractory, Ron O’Malley
   2. Investigation on the Hot Ductility Behavior of Steel Grades at SSAB Iowa, Yufeng Wang, SSAB
   3. Effect of changes to casting flux chemistry to the properties of a casting flux, HWI – Darrell Sturgill
   4. Mold Powder, Shinigawa – Jim Gilmore
   5. Mold powder, Vesuvius - Maria Carolina
   6. Soft Reduction, US Steel, Bill Schlichting
   7. Soft reduction, Primetals – Jeff Brower
4. Chair Conclusion—Heil & Abraham
5. 5:00 p.m.
6. Next Meeting
   Spring CCTC
   Spring MSCTC
7. Adjourn

Thursday 24 October 2024

1. 7:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast—Corpus C
2. 8:00 a.m. Depart for Tour
3. Tour SDI Sinton
4. Adjourn Noon