From 5^th to 7^th March 2024 the annual meeting of the VDI/DECHEMA Working Party "Agglomeration and bulk handling" (https://www.tuhh.de/spe/dechema) took place in Weimar/Germany. Franz Fehse, senior researcher at ITUN, presented a poster entitled with "Decarbonization of crude steel production by direct reduction and hot briquetting", which addressed the goals and process chain of the EU-funded HBI C-flex project as well as ITUN’s part in this project.