15-17 September 2025
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eurocoke 2024 was attended by over 300 delegates, due to it's unrivalled face-to-face networking opportunities, excellent speakers and lively debates.
Join us again in 2025 to catch up on all the latest trends, learn from leading experts and meet new contacts to ensure your company's on-going success. Plus we're returning to Tata Steel IJmuiden for a site visit. (Please note limited speaces are available for the tour)
As Europe's leading met coke, coal, and steel industry event, Eurocoke attracted experts from across the industry, including senior decision makers from the global coke, coal, and steel markets.
The 2024 agenda covered all the hot topics
Founded in 1953, ACRE Coking & Refractory Engineering Consulting Corporation, MCC has developed into an international leading engineering company in the design and supply of a full array of portfolio technological solutions for modern coke-making and refractory-making plants.
With more than 1000 employees in different disciplines, ACRE offers customized solutions in term of consulting, engineering, procurement, turn-key (EPC) project and technical services etc.
ACRE has successfully designed and commissioned over 200 EPC projects and over 1000 engineering & consulting projects, in which more than 2000 coke oven batteries (total capacity amounts to over 0.4 billion t/a) fully attest to our fruitful engineering performances. ACRE has completed an array of international projects in India, Turkey, Brazil, Japan,Burma, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and South Africa etc. All these achievements have defined ACRE as the leading supplier in global market in coke-making and refractory-making industries.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources (NYSE: AMR) is a Tennessee-based mining company with operations across Virginia and West Virginia in the United States of America. With customers across the globe, high-quality reserves and significant port capacity, Alpha reliably supplies metallurgical products to the steel industry.
With its Plant Technology business thyssenkrupp Uhde is one of the world's leading designer and supplier of engineering, equipment and complete plants for the chemical, petrochemical and the coke making industries. For coke plants thyssenkrupp Uhde offers proprietary technology as well as individual engineering services. The portfolio includes efficient slot type coke oven batteries including the corresponding gas treatment plants as well as heat recovery coke plants. Our technology reflects the experience of the construction of more than 100,000 coke oven worldwide. Numerous inventions and developments, which are today recognized standards in modern and environmental friendly coke making, were taken forward by our company. Our customers benefit from cost-effective high-tech solutions in construction of new production units, improvement of existing plants and the entire range of services for the full life cycle of their plants and equipment.
Chris Bandmann joined Wood Mackenzie in January of 2023. He is responsible for delivering comprehensive research coverage of the Atlantic basin’s metallurgical coal sector including supply, demand, pricing and costs, with a primary focus on Europe.
Prior to joining Wood Mac Chris worked at CRU, performing market analysis on the European steel markets.
Chris holds an MSc and a BSc in Economics from the University of Exeter in the UK.
In 1986 he graduated Faculty of Technology and Chemical Engineering of the Silesian Technical University - Gliwice (Poland) and obtained Ph. D. at the same University in 1993. The main interest of his research works include coke making technology and thermal processing of solid fuels and wastes.
At present he is Director of the Institute of Chemical Processing of Coal in Zabrze. He is a member of Polish Standardisation Commission, expert of Polish Ecological Chamber and member of European Coke Committee.
He is the author of more than 100 scientific and technical papers and 10 patents.
Jorge Caldeira has been actively involved in the ironmaking and ironmaking raw materials industries for 40 years. He is a graduated Metallurgical Engineering from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1977 and got a Master´s degree in Coal Science at the Pennsylvania State University in the USA in 1981. Had an extension program with Professor Harry March at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK in 1985.
As a professional, he worked for CSN- Brazilian National Steel Co. for 16 years (12 years at their R&D Centre leading coal & coke projects and 4 years as General Manager Coke Oven and By-Products operations as well as Head of the Central Laboratories.
Since 1993, he has started his own consulting company – COALBIZ - and has rendered technical and commercial services to various coal suppliers from Australia, USA and Canada and to end user from various countries such as Brazil, India, Vietnam and Thailand. For the last 24 years, he has also been with the Australian Jellinbah Group where he currently serves as their Manager Technical Marketing.
Graduation from university: 1992 (business administration)
1992: start of professional career with coke plant technology company Thyssen Still Otto (which in 1999 became Thyssen Krupp EnCoke and in 2004 was integrated in the company thyssenkrupp Uhde)
1992 – 2017: development of projects for new coke plants as well as coke plant revamps with an emphasis on Latin America, but also in Europe, North America as well Asia
2017: new position “Head of Sales”
Further engagement: board member of German coke plant experts association (VDKF)
Dr. Bristow has been actively involved in the steel and steelmaking raw materials industries for over 22 years. During this time, he has led numerous investigations in coal and iron ore technical and market research, minerals strategy development, and market planning for BHP’s coal business, and was Chief Analyst for BHP Billiton’s Carbon Steel Materials Group, leading the Market Intelligence Group in Singapore.
His key expertise in steel, metallurgical coal, iron ore, and manganese ore and ferroalloys, coupled with strategic vision and long term analysis on future directions in emerging markets, saw him as an early proponent of the rebirth of the global steel industry, the rise of China and of coal’s growth story, together with a strong belief in China’s emergence as a major seaborne metallurgical coal importer. He has been a strong advocate for India’s growing coal demand.
In April 2009, he formed H&W Worldwide Consulting, putting his strong market analysis and strategy skills to good use across bulk commodities, including iron ore and coal –for both coking and thermal.
As an internationally recognized expert in areas of steel and steelmaking raw materials, long term trends and scenarios, he has written and presented numerous publications at highly respected international conferences and meetings.
Jan Soonius is the Managing Director of HeaTeQ, where he is active in Engineering, Project/Site Management & Construction Projects in Iron & Steel, Non-Ferrous, Aluminum & other Heavy Industries.
Key Activity is Refractory Installation Work. Soonius has been with in this position since May of 2009.
Prior to joining HeaTeQ, Jan was a member of the Lizmontages Group and both Project manager and managing Director for Prison Refractories. Soonius began his career with 23 years of service as Construction manager at Hoogovens/Corus, where he built his expertise in Refractory Engineering & Construction of Blast Furnaces, Hot Blast Stoves and Coke Batteries.
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