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 secondary steelmaking and continuous casting courses in a combined simulation.

 

Scott Chubbs, Director, steeluniversity for worldsteel, said, “Congratulations to the World Champions and all of the finalists for a tremendous competition. The work they undertook to be at the top of the competition was evident through their steelmaking solutions. I believe we witnessed future industry leaders conquer steelChallenge-15.”

 

The 2021 World Champion in the industry category, Xiaowei Shi said, “The challenge was really hard and I’m delighted to be the industry World Champion. steelChallenge is the highest level and most authoritative competition in the steel industry. It’s a great honour for me to participate in this competition.”

 

Darley da Silva Lima, the World Champion in the student category for 2021, said, “I’m very happy to be the student World Champion. It was an incredible opportunity to improve my knowledge about steelmaking and meet people around the world. I enjoyed steelChallenge and it will be helpful for working in the steel industry.”

 

New this year, all registered participants received access to the Secondary Steelmaking and Continuous Casting courses, including e-learning, 3D interactive models and simulators. Registered participants completing the Secondary Steelmaking course and the Continuous Casting course received completion certificates for each course. Also, participants successfully completing a simulation run during steelChallenge-15 received a competition certificate.

 

Source: worldsteel