worldsteel announces the world champions of steelChallenge-13

Release time：Apr 30, 2019 From：admin

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) today announced the new world champions of the 13th steelChallenge. Shao-Wei LOU from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, China won in the student category and Yongtae KIM from POSCO, South Korea won in the industry category.

The world championship of the 13th steelChallenge took place in Madrid, Spain on 16 April 2019. The 5 winners of the regional championship from each of the industry and student categories competed for the global title. The task was to produce a specific engineering steel grade at the lowest cost using steeluniversity’s Basic Oxygen Steelmaking and Secondary Steelmaking simulators.

Scott Chubbs, Director, steeluniversity, said, “the steel industry is only as good as the people who work in it. With 1,900 participants in the whole competition, the finalists can be really proud of themselves. They are and will be great assets to our industry.”

Shao-Wei LOU, the World Champion in the student category for 2019 said, “I am an iron man and wanted to become World Champion. I am so happy I did.”

Yongtae KIM, the World Champion in the industry category, said, “steelChallenge can help us to find the optimum point between convertor and second refinery. It allows us to study productivity and costs. It’s very helpful for real steelmaking.”

Photos of the event are available on Flickr.