Overview: Topics
How CCS Opens New Opportunities for the Pipeline Industry
14.07.2025
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) represents a widely debated methodology for managing CO₂ emissions across industrial sectors. While proponents view CO₂ capture and sequestration as a viable pathway toward decarbonization, critics point to the substantial costs and environmental risks inherent in the process.
How CCS Opens New Opportunities for the Pipeline Industry
14.07.2025
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) represents a widely debated methodology for managing CO₂ emissions across industrial sectors. While proponents view CO₂ capture and sequestration as a viable pathway toward decarbonization, critics point to the substantial costs and environmental risks inherent in the process.
Standard-compliant and low-emission: how GRP flange connections comply with TA Luft
07.07.2025
The new version of the Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control (TA Luft) published on August 18, 2021, as the first general administrative regulation to the Federal Immission Control Act brings new requirements for operators of industrial plants - especially with regard to the monitoring of fugitive emissions at flange connections.
Aluminum Recycling: Key to Sustainable Circular Economy
01.07.2025
The economic and regulatory framework for metal processing industries is undergoing fundamental change. Rising CO₂ fees, stricter environmental legislation, and increasing cost pressure on primary raw materials require new strategies in the value chain.
Hydrogen ramp-up in Germany: Current status and priorities of the new BMWE
10.06.2025
With the expansion of the hydrogen core network, Germany is currently laying the foundations for an efficient supply of hydrogen in the country. At the same time, regional model initiatives are taking place in many places to establish practical hydrogen solutions and thus successfully build bridges to commercial use.
New Engineering Approaches for Adaptable, Autonomous Production Systems – Impulses for the Mechanical and Plant Engineering Sector
27.05.2025
In today’s industrial landscape—shaped by supply bottlenecks, workforce shortages, and fluctuating market demands—companies in mechanical and plant engineering, such as those represented at wire & Tube, face the challenge of making their production more resilient, flexible, and future-ready.
Hydrogen Production in the USA
12.05.2025
The hydrogen economy is gaining momentum worldwide, but approaches differ significantly between countries. Unlike Europe, which clearly focuses on green hydrogen, the USA pursues a pragmatic, technology-open approach. Currently, blue hydrogen plays a more significant role there. However, green hydrogen is seen as a long-term goal with growing importance.
Vision 2030 in Steel: Saudi Arabia's Metal Industry in Global Competition
22.04.2025
In recent decades, Saudi Arabia has evolved from a pure oil producer to a country with an increasingly diversified economy. A central component of this economic transformation is the development of its own steel industry.
Saudi Arabia: Oil Exporter and Hydrogen Hope
16.04.2025
The first Metal Flow Alliance Saudi Arabia will take place in Riyadh from May 5 to 7. While the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula has primarily been known as an oil exporter, it has been developing into a hydrogen superpower in recent years.
Digital transformation: Smart building with BIM
11.04.2025
Building Information Modelling (BIM), an intelligent, 3D model-based method for the digital planning, execution and management of buildings, is becoming increasingly important in the infrastructure sector. It is also playing a key role in the digital transformation of building construction, water management and pipeline construction.