The conference sessions are on Monday 19 June (14.30-17.30) and Tuesday 20 June (09.00 – 17.30).
Simultaneous interpretation: English/German/French/Italian/Spanish
14.30 Opening of Assembly 2023– Matteo Bisol (Italy), EGGA President
Welcome – Martin Kopf (Austria), Chairman, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Oberflächentechnik
& Vice-President, EGGA
KEYNOTE SESSION
14.40 Sabine Hesse, Managing Director, Association of Metal Technology Industries (Austria)
The metal technology industry in Austria
15.00 Georg Matzner, Österreichischer Stahlbauverband & Chair of the Executive Board of the
European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS)
Perspectives from the steel construction sector
15.20 Martin Kopf, Zinkpower, Chairman, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Oberflächentechnik & Vice-President, EGGA
The Race to Zero for the Galvanizing Industry
15.40 COFFEE BREAK
16.05 EU Policy Overview – Green Deal, Energy and Product Sustainability
Valerio Mazzone, European General Galvanizers Association
16.25 Net Zero Plans for the Industry - short national reports
Panel Discussion
17.05 Zinc: Low carbon, responsible, credible
Sabina Grund, International Zinc Association
17.30 CLOSE
17.30 EGGA Annual General Meeting (nominated representatives of national associations only)
EVENING – Gala Dinner
09.00 Decarbonisation in the Galvanizing Industry
Angela Curtis, Hasco-Thermic Ltd
09.25 Electric heated furnaces – An Update
Nil Erik Faulhaber, CH Evensen
09.50 Electric and Hybrid Thermal Groups: Effective CO2 Savings per Working Shift
Domenico Balascio, Gimeco Impianti s.r.l. (Italy)
10.15 Discussion
10.25 COFFEE BREAK
10.55 Environmental Product Declarations in Context
Chiara Urbani, Life Cycle Engineering Srl (Italy)
11.20 Fire engineering with galvanized steel – worked examples
Dr Gisele Bihina, Centre Technique Industriel de la Construction Métallique (France)
11.45 A novel approach to determine the adhesion of hot dip galvanized coatings
Dr.-Ing. Holger Hoche, TU Darmstadt (Germany)
12.10 New zincophobic coatings for hooks/jigs: a way to reduce cost and environmental impact in
batch hot-dip galvanizing
Prof. David Balloy & Aleksandra Cieplak, University of Lille (France)
12.35 Discussion
12.45 LUNCH
14.00 Thermodynamics of zinc evaporation in dross recovery
Katarína Pauerová, Institute of Recycling Technologies, Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and
Recycling, Technical University in Košice (Slovakia)
14.25 Sustainable small-scale zinc thermal spraying for repair of galvanized coatings
Tomáš Dáňa, COREZINC s.r.o. (Czech Republic)
14.45 Implementing the EU BAT Conclusions in Environmental Permitting of Galvanizing Plants
Murray Cook, European General Galvanizers Association
15.10 Discussion
15.15 COFFEE BREAK
15.40 Performance of batch galvanized steel in solar structure applications
Javier Tundidor, ATEG (Spain)
16.05 The Importance of the Correct Specification of Metallic Coatings for Steel – an EGGA White
Paper
Vasile Rus, European General Galvanizers Association
16.35 A view from the Asia-Pacific region
Peter Golding, Galvanizers Association of Australia
17.00 Intergalva 2024 Bruges - Announcement and Exhibitor Briefing
17.15 CLOSING REMARKS