OCAS / ArcelorMittal R&D Gent

OCAS (Research Center for the Application of Steel) is an advanced, market-oriented research centre providing steel and metal-based products, services and solutions, to metal processing companies worldwide. Within ArcelorMittal, OCAS is known as ArcelorMittal Global R&D Gent and is as such in charge of all ArcelorMittal R&D projects within the market of general industry for flat carbon steel.

OCAS anticipates its customer’s needs by developing alloys and coatings, by producing and testing samples and co-develop steel applications.  OCAS is equipped with state-of-the-art R&D tools and facilities in its laboratories in Zelzate and Zwijnaarde (Belgium). The research centre valorizes know-how by product and solution development. 

OCAS has a highly qualified team of over 150 researchers and engineers with an international orientation.