UNITECR 2023: Refractories presents itself as a sustainable industry. The participants are getting younger and more female.

The refractories world conference UNITECR ended last Friday with many highlights.  The main theme of the event was "The Carbon Challenge", a current positioning of the refractory industry on the challenges in product manufacturing and application in the customer segments of steel, cement or glass.

The current topic also attracted a much younger field of participants than in the past: "More than 53 percent of the participants were younger than 45, we even had 39 students and were able to welcome 237 female participants," said a pleased Thomas Kaczmarek, who was responsible for the overall organisation.

In the course of the registrations, two special events were prepared for this development: Women@Refractories and Young Professionals.