At present, the CSM features the structure of an intersectorial, multinational company owned by several European and overseas steel producers, steel users, engineering and high tech companies.

Due to its legal status as a Limited Company, CSM stands as a unicum case in the panorama of European material research centres. Differing from these in fact, CSM operates on the research free market in those technological and commercial sectors not directly of interest to its shareholders.

Despite the radical changes in the company structure that took place after the privatization of the Italian iron and steel industry and its restructuring process, CSM was able to attain a key role in the “new” privatized steel industry in terms of ingenuity, efficiency and technological expertise. Owing to a fast and effective conversion and to the optimization of the capabilities developed in the complex steel production and control technologies, CSM can now serve, besides the iron and steel sector, big manufacturing industries operating in key economic sectors such as oil & gas, aerospace & defence, energy & environment, mechanics & transportation.

 

Short historical tale edited by Manlio Mirabile, former CSM’s Director