The location in the Ruhr-region near to Düsseldorf is in the centre of steel making, production of steel consumer goods and design of iron and steel plants and consumer goods manufacturing plants and machines in Germany with a high developed infrastructure for all HEEPP - activities including contacts to big size, medium and smal size specialised companies, associations, institutes, universities and neutral experts with world wide experiences.
 
The "Association of German Iron and Steel Engineers" VDEh and "Association of Steel Economy" with al it's divisions and institutes like BFI (Research institute of German steel makers and consumers), FEhS (Research Institute Iron & Steel Slags), library, institute for steel application, institute for steel statistics, commercial institute for steel and institute for continuous training of al people in the steel plants can be used. Other resources like Max Planck Institute for Iron and Steel, University at Duisburg with the Institute for rolling mill technology can be used for training. Therefore HEEPP can have knowledge about latest research and practical results in steel making, steel consumer goods production, material development and al type of steel applications. 
 
The best know how experts for steel making, design of iron and steel plants, production of steel consumer goods and marketing are available here in this Ruhr-area in big, medium and smal size companies or as free lancers, many have worked world-wide in companies like Thyssen, Krupp, Mannesmann, SMS- DEMAG etc. and are now neutral independent consultants and design and marketing engineers. 
 
All kind of plant and machine suppliers with leading know how in the world for steel making and consuming plants are here in this area and directly available to co-operate with us - the HEEPP - engineers.