About the sector

Market Analysis and Reports


This section includes links to relevant sources providing sectorial reports and information of interest for CEM-Wave’s partners and stakeholders.

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CompositesWorld is a website that delivers news and information on what is happening in fiber-reinforced composites manufacturing, particularly of glass fiber and carbon fiber composite parts and structures. It is useful to learn what is new and trending in composites design, tooling, materials and fabrication. The website offers also access to webinars and podcasts and upon registration the latest and past issues of the magazine CompositeWorld can be browsed for free.

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The European Ceramic Society was established in 1987 to co-ordinate and promote education, training and research in the field of ceramics and to bring together actors from the public and private sectors active in the field. It is a non-governmental, nonprofit federation of national ceramic societies. Every two years it organizes a general conference in one of the member countries which is an important venue for meeting and exchange for researchers, industry representatives and professionals of the sector. The XVIII ECerS conference will be held in Lyon, France from 2 to 6th July 2023.

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The Brussels based European Composites Industry Association is the leading association of the European composites industry, representing European national composite associations as well as industry specific sector groups. Although the focus is on fibre reinforced polymer composite materials, their position papers and background documents, for example the Background document on circular economy can be of interest for other high-performance composite materials sectors.

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Founded in 1976 and based in Brussels, the European Steel Association represents the European steel industry. The website is rich in content regarding this strategic sector and of particular interest are the reports published quarterly in the section “Economic and market outlook”, as well as the statistics and data about the performance and footprint of the sector in Europe presented in a user-friendly way in the guide “European Steel in Figures 2022”.

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Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium and with a second office in Beijing, China, the World Steel Association is one of the largest industry associations, including steel producers, national and regional steel industry associations and steel research institutes which together represent around 85% of global steel production. Its goal is to act as focal point on all major strategic issues impacting the industry, particularly focusing on economic, environmental and social sustainability. Among other services, it provides economic data and analysis on the global steel industry and its value chain, as well as assessments on life cycle aspects of steel. The Sustainability indicators 2022 report presents the sustainability performance of 104 steel companies and associations representing 56% of global crude steel production between 2003 and 2021. World Steel in Figures 2022 instead provides key facts and statistics on the sector.

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This technical report by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission describes the European steel production landscape and the technologies that are being explored to decarbonise its processes, including hydrogen-based steelmaking and carbon capture storage and utilisation technologies. It stresses the importance that the EU’s R&D programmes have had to support the early stage development of technologies, although evidencing that future massive investments will be needed to commercialize these technologies and replace existing plants. Finally, it suggests that the EU could facilitate the net-zero transition developing green steel standards to be adopted for green public procurement.

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This report produced by the Mission Possible Partnership (MPP) describes actions that need to be taken this decade for the steel sector to achieve the zero-net emissions goal by 2050. Both steelmaking technologies and enabling energy infrastructure will need to be ready in the 2020s to enable the rapid shift to near-zero-carbon production processes in the following decades.