2020 Member general news

POSCO has vowed to become “Carbon Neutral” by 2050. As of recent, climate change has emerged as the greatest challenge for humanity, and POSCO’s commitment to leading carbon neutrality is an especially meaningful one. Read more

The announcement of Roadmap+, which will also combat industrial odours and dust pollution at IJmuiden, coincides with the publication today of a progress report on Tata Steel’s Roadmap 2030 sustainability program Read more

POSCO (CEO Jeong-Woo Choi) has taken the next step towards establishing eco-friendly steelworks by operating an air purification facility that reduces nitrogen oxide emissions. Read more

The list of 2020 Fortune’s most admired Chinese companies was released on November 3. China Baowu ranked eighth in the All-Star list and topped the list for the fourth consecutive year in the metal industry. Read more

Tata Steel has launched plans for a project to capture CO2 from its blast furnaces in IJmuiden, Netherlands, and transport it for storage in empty gas fields under the North Sea. Read more

The Carbon2Chem® project initiated by thyssenkrupp is moving into its next phase. Involving 16 further partners the project, which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has over the past four years gathered fundamental insights into the conversion of steel mill process gases into chemical products. Read more

NLMK Lipetsk, an NLMK Group company has launched an anhydrous cooling system for blast furnace slag as part of its environmental upgrade programme. Read more

August 28, witnessed by Provincial leaders, experts and enterprise executives, first HBIS Pilot Hydrogen Station commenced its business operation. Read more

EVRAZ allocated RUB 200 million to finance construction of a hospital for treatment of infectious diseases in Novokuznetsk and supplied steel products for the project via its trading arm, EVRAZ Metall Inprom (EMI). Read more

The new icon of Chinese high-speed railway system, Beijing-Xiongan Intercity completed its construction on August 17. In total, HBIS delivered over 100,000tons of high-quality high rise building steel, bars and wires. Read more

POSCO’s PosGRAM is expected to enhance the national industrial competitiveness, as it is to replace lead free cutting steel, which was entirely reliant on imports. Read more

Steel Recycling Business, a division of Tata Steel, has launched FerroHaat™, a first-of-its-kind mobile application (App) in the world, to source steel scrap from the traders. Read more

The Low Pelletizing Mult-Pollutant Emission Technology and Pilot Project in the 13rd National Plan has been launched by HBIS. Read more

On 3 August, a new bridge was opened in Genoa, Italy, in place of the one that tragically collapsed two years ago. Metinvest supplied 18.5 thousand tonnes of high-strength steel for it, the majority of the total used. Read more

NLMK DanSteel, NLMK Group’s plant in Denmark, has supplied its heavy plate for the Wind Float Atlantic project. Read more

Severstal commits to cutting its carbon emissions by 3% by 2023 and almost doubles its target for reducing total atmospheric emissions. Read more

JFE Steel Corporation announces today the opening of its JFE Digital Transformation Center (JDXC™) as a hub for company-wide digital-transformation (DX) initiatives. Read more

Japanese nine companies have started the Ship Carbon Recycling Working Group formed within Japan's Carbon Capture & Reuse (CCR) Study Group. Read more

POSCO 1% Foundation (Chairman Jeong-Woo Choi) launched a new project called ‘CollaboArtion = Collaboration+Art’. It is expected to attract the public’s attention for disabled artists. Read more

E.On and thyssenkrupp bring hydrogen production to the electricity market Read more

A team of specialists from Severstal Digital, part of PAO Severstal, one of the world’s largest steel and steel-related mining businesses, working with experts in flat rolled products from the Cherepovets Steel Mill have successfully increased the productivity of a machine learning model. Read more

NLMK Ural and NLMK Kaluga, part of NLMK Russia Long Products Division, have been awarded Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certificates for rebar. EPD certification will boost the competitiveness of NLMK products in Russian and international markets. Read more

On May 28, POSCO launched a sea forest cultivation program in Ulleung Island to mark the National Ocean Day (May 31). Read more

EVRAZ Vanadium has established a new Research and Development Center located in Group subsidiary East Metals AG, Zug, Switzerland. The main objective is to support sustainable and diversified usage of vanadium as an alloying element in current and future steel products. Read more

PAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, announces the construction of long-range wire mill 170 in the long-rolling production segment. Read more

NLMK Lipetsk, the flagship site of NLMK Group, has embarked on piloting an automated production scheduling system. The system is integrated into business processes at all stages of production and sales planning. Read more