- Cold & hot working tool steels
- High speed steels
- Plastic mold steels
- Hard metals & cermets
- Steel/material design
- Tool steel development
- Microstructure, properties & performance
- Production of tool steels
- Simulations & modelling
- Additive manufacturing
- Processing, machining & polishing
- Heat treatment
- Surface engineering & coating
- Wear resistance
- Fatigue under mechanical & thermal cyclic loads
- Corrosion resistance
- Tooling applications
- Tooling contributions to e-mobility
- Digitalization in the tool steel & toolmaking industries
- Sustainable toolmaking including health aspects
- Circular economy & tooling supply chain