The Bessemer Gold Medal is awarded to Giovanni Arvedi, for his far-seeing, strategic approach to hot strip manufacture with the construction of a compact, in-line casting and rolling process for hot strip at the first ISP (In-Line Strip Production) plant in Cremona, Italy.

Dr. Roberto Bruno, Chairman Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A., comments : “ARVEDI can be taken into example as a wise and brave entrepreneur, who strongly believes in the important role played by Research & Innovation, essential to enable the Steel companies to achieve success”.

Read the whole interview with Dr. R. Bruno, below. “La Cronaca di Cremona” July 2nd, 2009.

“I’ve been enthusiastic to learn that Bessemer Gold Medal was awarded to Giovanni Arvedi. For all of us, who have been working in the R&D sector of Iron&Steel industry for many years, ARVEDI can be taken into example as a wise and brave entrepreneur, who has always believed and keeps on believing firmly in the important role played by Research & Innovation to foster the achievement of success of Iron & Steel Enterprises. During all these years of cooperation, we have been sharing Arvedi‘s basic belief, according to which the new steel-making process technologies realized in the Cremona Plants, created and persistently promoted by Arvedi himself, represent a deep change in the concept of steel industry: from an industry based on a large scale economy with big Plants and big mass production and consequent relevant environmental/energetic problems, up to a high-tech mini-mills production lines industry with high flexibility and specialization, and drastic reduction of harmful emissions and energy consumptions. “In line strip production” and “End-less strip production” Plants in Cremona, do represent Arvedi’s great success; they also constitute a “model” and an accredited guide for R&S operators and entrepreneurs interested in improving the technical and economic competitiveness as well as the social image of the modern Iron&Steel industry which future, once the current economical crisis will be over, is certainly brilliant if based on technological innovation”