14th Steelie Awards winners announced

The Steelie Awards recognize member companies for their contribution to the steel industry over a one-year period.

The Steelies are awarded in six categories:

Excellence in low-carbon steel production:

• HBIS Group Co., Ltd. – Unique coke oven gas zero-reforming DRI process combined with EAF

Innovation of the year:

• United States Steel Corporation – Development of a high-strength, high-formable, lean, single-phase, nano-precipitation strengthened sheet steel for automotive applications with a minimum tensile strength of 780MPa.

Excellence in sustainability

• POSCO – Fe-enhanced slag silicate fertilizer: How application of blast furnace slag reduces methane emissions in rice farming

Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment

• CITIC Pacific Special Steel Group Co., Ltd – Innovation practice in China’s first Product Category Rule (PCR) for special steel used in automotive components

Excellence in education and training

• Ternium – From conventional classroom training to high-engagement immersive training for operators using virtual reality – development of a continuous casting simulator

Excellence in communications programmes

• Gerdau S.A. – Infinite stage: with Gerdau, steel becomes key attraction at world’s largest music and entertainment festival.