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Association of International Roll Pass Designers and Rolling Mill Engineers e.V.

AIKW Conference 2020

Dear AIKW members and conference participants,

during the last AIKW conference in Treviso / Italy we announced the next conference for autumn 2020 in Slovenia.

The conditions for holding a conference have changed dramatically in the meantime due to the spreading corona pandemic. We are only at the beginning of a global pandemic, the impact of which on economic, cultural and social development cannot yet be estimated. Many countries have taken drastic measures, such as assembly bans and restrictions on contacts, to reduce the rapid increase in the number of infected people and to avoid overloading the health systems in the respective countries.

It is not yet clear how the pandemic will develop and which measures the individual countries will prescribe in the next months. We assume that assembly bans will continue to apply to larger groups, especially for meetings with participants from different countries.

Therefore, after a detailed discussion, the AIKW board has decided to cancel the AIKW conference planned for 2020 in Slovenia.

We ask for your understanding for this decision, which is not easy for us either, and we look forward to welcoming you to our next AIKW conference in 2021.

We wish you and your families to stay healthy and to be protected from health risks as much as possible.

Yours sincerely
The AIKW board