An international Conference on Science and Technology of Iron making and Steelmaking (STIS 2013) concluded at CSIR-National Metallurgical laboratory auditorium.
The panel members of the valedictory function were: Dick Dunstone, director, principal consultant, Dunstone Coal Technology Pvt ltd, Australia, Prof Paulo Santos Asssis from Brazil, Prof GS Gupta from Indian Institute of Science Campus (IISc), Bangalore, Dr T Venugopalan, Chairman, STIS 2013 and chief technology officer, New Project, Tata Steel, Roderick Il Guthrie, director, Mc Gill Metals
Processing Centre, Mc Gill University, Canada, Prof Dieter Senk from RWTH Aachen University and Prof Deepak Majumder from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.
The output of the three-day conference brought forth the key issues like continuous depletion and scarcity of raw material, recycling of waste, infrastructure, non- availability of human resources, environmental problems and even the sustainability of iron and steel industry in general.
Prof Roderick Il Guthrie said, “ The interaction of the students with industries is very important.”