FACT SHEETS

Energy use in the steel industry

The steel industry actively manages the use of energy. Energy conservation in steelmaking is crucial to ensure the competitiveness of the industry and to minimise environmental impacts, such as greenhouse gas emissions.

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Steel and raw materials

Efficient use of natural resources is critical to sustainability. Steel’s great advantage is that it is 100% recyclable and can be reused infinitely. The industry uses advanced technologies and techniques to increase production yield rates and to facilitate the use of co-products. As a result of the intrinsic recyclability of steel, the value of the raw materials invested in steel production lasts far beyond the end of a steel product’s life

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Working in the steel industry

The steel industry offers career opportunities in many different fields and often in an international setting. Steel companies around the world also work closely with universities in the development of learning and research initiatives to develop future talent and promote innovation.

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Advanced steel applications

Across a broad range of industries and applications, the development and use of high-performance steels help to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Climate change mitigation by technology, innovation and best practice transfer

Steelmakers are involved in many programmes to transfer technologies thereby improving or replacing existing processes or process steps. Steel producers are also researching and investing in new production technologies that would radically reduce their environmental impact.

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Steel industry co-products

Over the past 20 years, the steel industry’s recovery rate of by-products has increased significantly. Innovative technology developments and synergies with other industries has brought the steel industry ever closer to its goal of zero-waste.

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