The United States has the strongest research opportunities for metallurgists in academic and national institutions as well as industrial opportunities. Japan focuses on metallurgy research and coatings technologies and has a large industrial base. Germany concentrates on thin film research and metallurgy with opportunities across various industrial fields. India has focused on non-ferrous metallurgy for centuries and now needs ferrous metallurgists for its growing industrial sector. Australia attracts metallurgists for its university research and large mining industry in ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

2. With its vast research laboratories in
academic universities, national
institutions as well as non-research
opportunities in aerospace and
medical industries as well as the
standard commercial industrial base.
United States of America

3. Following the top slot is Japan, primarily focusing on
industrial metallurgy and advanced films and
coatings. Japan has a sizeable industrial base as is
well known, but a tremendous amount of research
opportunities exist in the coatings technologies that
they have concentrated upon.

4. Germany has concentrated research efforts in the field
of thin films and is a heaven for research metallurgists
that have an interest in this area. The industrial base of
Germany is also fairly well distributed as far as fields of
activity for materials scientists.

5. Metallurgists in India have focused on non ferrous
metallurgy for centuries, going back in time to
copper statues and brass work. Ferrous metallurgists
are in great demand because of the hot industrial
growth in recent times requiring heat treaters,
foundry as well as welding engineers.

6. The fifth is Australia with its huge mines that attract
mining engineers and metallurgists. Australia also
has significant university research work that is
performed year after year in the field of mining
metallurgy both in ferrous and non-ferrous fields.

7. - Pakistan needs good metallurgist who would boost
the metal industry, especially Steel Industry
- According to the statistics for 2008, the world crude
steel production stands at around 1.3 billion tons,
wherein Pakistan’s share is only 0.24 percent.

8. Demand/Supply Projections
The annual demand for steel in Pakistan stands at approximately 8.4 million
tons, while the current steel production is about 4.9 million tons per annum.

11. If we consider a very modest increase in per capita steel consumption (say to
100 Kg) in the next 10 years, the steel requirement would be 20 million tons
per annum for a population of around 200 million by the year 2020.

12. Today in Pakistan there are thousands of factories
and mills besides Pakistan steel Mills and Karachi
Shipyard and engineering works, where attractive
career options for metallurgical engineers are
available.

13. Typical Metallurgical Job are in:
 Pakistan Steel Mills
 Peoples Steel Mills
 Aisha Steels Mills
 BolanCasting.
 Cresent Steels
 Abbas Steels
 Metropolitan Steels
 Shipyard.
 PakistanAir force
 Sandak , Balochistan etc

14. Graduates would typically find employment in the
manufacturing sector. Other notable organization where
lucrative jobs are available for metallurgical engineers are
 Heavy Foundry and Forage,
 PakistanAutomobile Corporation,
 BolanCasting,
 Heavy MechanicalComplexTexla,
 Pakistan MachineTool Factory,
 Armament Factories,
 Railways
 PIA’s workshops and dozen of such private and public organization

15.  Tuwairqi Steel Mills Limited (TSML), is
Pakistan’s first private-sector
integrated environment-friendly steel
manufacturing project of AlTuwairqi
Holding, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
 TSML complex spreads over an area of
220 acres at Bin Qasim, Karachi, and
employs the world’s most advanced DRI
(Direct Reduction of Iron) technology
based on the MIDREX process, owned
by Kobe Steel of Japan. .

16. The plant, with the capacity
to produce 1.28 million tons of
high-quality DRI, is now on
the verge of completion., is
Pakistan’s first private-sector
integrated environment-
friendly steel manufacturing
project of AlTuwairqi Holding,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

17.  TSML complex spreads over an area
of 220 acres at BinQasim, Karachi,
and employs the world’s most
advanced DRI (Direct Reduction of
Iron) technology based on the
MIDREX process, owned by Kobe
Steel of Japan.The plant, with the
capacity to produce 1.28 million tons
of high-quality DRI, is now on the
verge of completion