Msc. Dipl.Eng. Eleni Aivazoglou,  Msc. Dipl. Eng. Alexandros Antonopoulos and Dr. Fani Tzevelekou of the Process Metallurgy Department of ELKEME participated in the METEC & 4^th ESTAD 2019, which was held in Düsseldorf, 24-28 June 2019, where the paper with the title “Failure analysis of clogging related defects in steel products integrated with computational thermodynamics for process optimization” was presented. Approximately 550 technical presentations in 120 technical session covered the fields of Ironmaking, Steelmaking, Rolling, Steel materials and their application, Surface technologies, Additive manufacturing, Environmental and Energy, as well as aspects of Digitalization and Industry 4.0. The participants acquired the latest information on new ideas and developments, as well as on the state-of-the-art in metallurgical process technologies for iron and steel production, steel materials and steel application.