PURESCRAP
PURESCRAP takes the stage at AIMET 2026
PURESCRAP opened the scientific programme of AIMET 2026 with a keynote by Prof. Valentina Colla, highlighting how Artificial Intelligence can improve steel scrap quality and contribute to more circular and lower-carbon steel production.
PURESCRAP at the 41st AIM National Conference in Brescia
On 10th of September 2026, Alice Petrucciani from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna represented PURESCRAP at the 41st National Conference of the Italian Association for Metallurgy (AIM) in Brescia, Italy. As part of the conference session on decarbonisation and circular economy in steelmaking, Alice presented ongoing research carried out within PURESCRAP together with Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and […]
7th PURESCRAP newsletter
Exciting news! The 7th edition of our PURESCRAP project newsletter is here! We’re excited to share the latest updates and progress from the project with you.Here’s what you can look forward to in this issue: You can read the PURESCRAP newsletter n°7 here.
13th Steering Committee Meeting held
This week on 03 June 2026, the PURESCRAP Steering Committee came together for its 13th meeting 🤩The partners reviewed the progress and aligned on the next steps ahead.The status of our sensor station developments were discussed and preparations for the next phase including experimental melting trials of the characterized and batchwise sorted scrap are already […]
Presentation at EEC2026
🎯 Our Colleague Alice Petrucciani presents the work carried out by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and Danieli-Gruppe on use of ArtificialIntelligence applied to copper parts indentification in scrap at the 14th European Electric Steelmaking Conference (EEC2026) held in Milan (Italy 🇮🇹) this week.
PURESCRAP at EEC2026
🎯 Here is our booth at the exhibition accompanying the 14th European Electric Steelmaking Conference (EEC2026) and the 5th International Conference on Energy and Material Efficiency and CO2 Reduction in the Steel Industry (EMECR2026), 🌈 which is taking place in Milan (Italy 🇮🇹) this week!You are mostly welcome to visit us!
Technical consortium meeting
📢 This week on 15 April 2026, a PURESCRAP consortium meeting took place in online mode. The focus was to give an update on the current state of scrap analysis, which includes the analysis of heavy and shredded scrap. Results of our recent analyses of scrap batches using XRF and LIBS were discussed. Furthermore, the […]
Paper published
Our colleagues have successfully published the paper “Combining multimodal sensor data for an enhanced use of scrap in steel production (Kombination multimodaler Sensordaten für eine verbesserte Nutzung von Schrott in der Stahlproduktion)” in the journal Österreichische Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft. Main author:• Melanie Leitner (K1-MET GmbH)Co-authors:• Valentina Colla, Alice Petrucciani, Marco Vannucci (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)• Anton […]
12th Steering Committee Meeting
This week, the PURESCRAP Steering Committee came together for its first meeting of 2026. The partners reviewed the progress and aligned on the next steps ahead. The results of our recent test campaigns are being evaluated, while preparations for the next phase of experiments are already underway.We are also excited to share that our colleagues […]
6th PURESCRAP newsletter
Exciting news! The 6th edition of our PURESCRAP project newsletter is here! We’re excited to share the latest updates and progress from the project with you. Here’s what you can look forward to in this issue: You can read the PURESCRAP newsletter n°6 here.