Nightingale HQ team attend UK Metals Expo
- Steph Locke
- News
- September 9, 2025
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UK Metals Expo 2025 is a leading trade event that brings together the full metals industry from raw materials and machinery to digital and green technologies. We are particularly looking forward to hearing from steelmakers such as Tata Steel, ArcelorMittal, Premier Steel, Marcegaglia, British Steel, and Outokumpu, who will share valuable perspectives on the current state of the industry and future strategies.
Key topics throughout the conference include EAF steelmaking, CBAM readiness, circular economy models, and low-carbon sourcing. A highlight will be the keynote address by T. V. Narendran, CEO of Tata Steel and Chair of the World Steel Association, who will provide a global outlook on the steel industry and its transition toward a greener, more resilient future.
This is a great opportunity to connect with industry leaders and explore the tech and innovations shaping the future of steel manufacturing and construction.
FAQs
What was GoSmarter showcasing at UK Metals Expo 2025?
Our team attended UK Metals Expo 2025 with a clear focus: demonstrating how GoSmarter’s tools are already helping metals manufacturers reduce scrap, speed up compliance documentation, and get more accurate visibility into their inventory — without requiring a long implementation project or a dedicated IT team.
The expo was an opportunity to have direct conversations with production managers, operations directors, and quality teams who are facing the same challenges our existing customers faced before they adopted GoSmarter: too much time spent on manual admin, compliance documentation that slows down deliveries, and cutting plans that leave more scrap than they should.
What are the themes that mattered at UK Metals Expo 2025?
CBAM readiness — the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism that came into force for EU imports — was a major topic at this year’s expo. For UK steel manufacturers exporting to Europe, CBAM means reporting on the embodied carbon of their products. GoSmarter’s emissions tools and material tracking capabilities are directly relevant to this requirement: getting accurate carbon data is the first step in meeting CBAM compliance.
EAF (Electric Arc Furnace) steelmaking and circular economy models were also prominent themes. The shift toward lower-carbon steelmaking processes creates new data and tracking challenges — understanding material composition, scrap inputs, and energy consumption at greater granularity than traditional steelmaking required. GoSmarter’s data infrastructure is built to support exactly this kind of operational visibility.
What did we take away?
Conversations with steelmakers at UK Metals Expo confirmed what we see in our customer data: the metals industry knows it needs to change, understands the direction of travel on sustainability and digitalisation, and is actively looking for tools that can deliver value quickly without requiring a wholesale replacement of existing systems. That is exactly what GoSmarter provides.
We left with new connections, a clearer understanding of where the industry’s immediate needs lie, and strong validation that the tools we are building are the right ones for this moment.
