The 9th International Conference on High Strength Low Alloy Steels (HSLA Steels 2025) will be held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China in November 2-4, 2025. The quinquennial HSLA Steels conference series has been successfully organized by The Chinese Society for Metals in Beijing (1985, 1990, 1995, 2011), Xi’an (2000), Sanya (2005), Hangzhou (2015) and Beijing (2022) since 1985 and grown into the leading platform for scientific and technological exchange in HSLA steels.

During the past years, increasing demand from the automotive and the structural engineering sectors, which are the chief consumers of the product in the HSLA steels, as well as oil & gas and other industrial sectors has boosted the rapid growth of the market for HSLA steels. Steel manufacturers are constantly seeking the possibility of increasing strength and improving the fabrication and service performances at a lower cost. HSLA Steels 2025 will focus on the latest scientific and technological progress on advanced steels and metallurgical processing over the past decades.  

We kindly invite you to participate in this meaningful conference and are looking forward to meeting you in Nanjing, which has been more than 2,400 years and is one of the four ancient capitals of Ming dynasty. 

Co-organized by

Nanjing Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. 

CBMM | Niobium

CITIC Metal Co., Ltd.

Vanitec-CISRI Vanadium Technology Center

The Vanadium International Technical Committee (VANITEC)

The topics of HSLA Steels 2025 is made up of, but is not limited to:

A. Physical Metallurgy for Innovation

-- Alloy Design               

-- Recrystallization

-- Phase Transformation      

-- Solution and Precipitation

-- Mechanical Properties      

-- Mechanism of Strengthening, Plasticity and Toughening

-- Simulation and Modeling

B. Products for the Automotive, Energy, Infrastructure and Maritime Industry, etc.

-- Hot Rolled Plates and Strips  

-- Cold Rolled Sheets 

-- Hot-stamped Sheets

-- Line Pipe and Tubular Goods 

-- Rebar and Wire Rods

-- Section Steels

-- Cast and Forged Steels

-- Other HSLA Products

C. Performance and Safety for Application

-- Weldability   

-- Corrosion Resistance  

-- Hydrogen Embrittlement

-- Formability

-- Others

D. Process Metallurgy for High Quality

-- Secondary Refining       

-- Continuous Casting   

-- TMCP

-- TSCR, Endless Rolling, Strip Casting

-- Heat Treatment            

-- Forming Process     

-- Coating Process

Fees

USD 500 (Regular)               USD 550 (Regular)                       USD 250 (Student)

*Notes: 1) Each accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings only if at least one author’s registration fee is paid before October 1, 2025.

 2) Oral presentation will be arranged only if at least one author’s registration fee is paid before October 1, 2025.

  3) Students are requested to submit the copy of their student ID.