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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: European Steel Industry Greenhouse Gas Emissions

October 20, 2020

This week’s Steel Data Room dataset of the week is for you steelnerds following investments in steelmaking technologies to reduce CO2 emissions. The dataset “Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Source Sector” includes emissions data published by the European statistics authority Eurostat and sourced from the European Environment Agency (EEA). Here you can find data on emissions […]

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Worldsteel: “Steel Makes Our World a Better Place”

December 2, 2014

Worldsteel just initiated its campaign promoting the cleanliness and recyclability of steel, as well as its importance in the world economy. We thought you might be interested. The promotional poster is below but have a look at the full video which is also available in Chinese, Spanish, German, Russian and Korean.

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Ilva Taranto future in doubt as local authorities sign suspension of hot end

July 26, 2012

Since this story hasn’t got to the English newsfeeds yet, we thought we’d draw your attention to this front page Italian story. Just two days after steel journalists reported a planned September restart of its No. 1 hot strip mill, Ilva Taranto, one of the largest flat roll mills in Europe, is facing closure of […]

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LanzaTech producing ethanol from industrial waste gas

August 25, 2009

We’re always pleased to hear about new technologies that aim to get the steel industry on the right side of the environmental impact debate – see ArcelorMittal and ThyssenKrupp announcements. So we’re happy to relay the announcement from LanzaTech in New Zealand regarding their technology to deal with carbon monoxide. Here’s what they say: LanzaTech […]

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ArcelorMittal launches Clean Technology VC Fund

July 11, 2008

As if in response to point 5 of this article on how to respond to high steel prices, ArcelorMittal is putting money into a venture capital fund investing in clean technologies in addition to establishing a carbon fund to generate carbon credits that will help in complying with the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. The venture […]

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High steel prices tell us what to do

June 9, 2008

Martin Wolf, as he often does, wrote an interesting column in the Financial Times recently called The market sets high oil prices to tell us what to do. As $1,000/ton steel becomes an accepted fact of life it’s worth asking what the market is telling us to do about high steel prices. Martin Wolf offers […]

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