Härterei Kongress 2022 in Köln

This year's Hardening Congress will be held once again in 2022 at the Cologne Exhibition Center. Over the course of three days, trade visitors will be brought closer to the topic and the latest developments and trends in heat treatment work through lectures, presentations and more. Through the broad overview that will be given to the visitors on site, it will be possible to see in which direction the industry will move in the coming seasons and to discuss what the visitors have seen and experienced on site with experts and exhibitors and to expand their knowledge.
This year, the Hardening Congress sessions will join forces with Steel Innovation 2022 to create a spectacular exhibition that will bring together professionals from both sectors and ensure that a lively exchange between those present is possible.
As in previous years, the congress will be divided into scientific sessions and practitioner sessions. The fair is considered to be the largest specialist congress of its kind in Europe, with everything revolving around the topics of heat treatment and production and process engineering.

The main topics of the fair are as follows;

• Materials technology
• Annealing processes
• Manufacturing technology
• Computing processes
• Artificial Intelligence
• Simulation and digitalization
• Energy efficiency
• Heat treatments
• Innovations
• Thermal-mechanical manufacturing processes
• Process engineering

Among the key topics of Steel Innovation 2022, the following apply;

• Steel materials technology
• Digital steel technology
• Steel development for the hydrogen economy
• High-strength and wear-resistant steels
• Sustainable steel
• Corrosion resistant steels
• Hydrogen embrittlement
• Materials testing steel
• Increasing the damage tolerance of steels
• Recycling, reuse and remanufacturing
• New steel concepts