Nightingale HQ team attend UK Metals Expo

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.

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.

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.