Just Have a Think - New breakthrough claims 90% reduction in Steelmaking emissions, 26022023

Steel making accounts for about 8% of all global emissions, and that's rising quickly as urbanisation accelerates around the world. So we need to decarbonise the steelmaking process NOW! Here's a great new solution for how to achieve that goal

McKinsey & Company - Decarbonization challenge for Steel, 03062020

Steel players across the globe, and especially in Europe, are increasingly facing a decarbonization challenge. Recent studies estimate that the global steel industry may find approximately 14% of steel companies’ potential value is at risk if they are unable to decrease their environmental impact. There are options to achieve the reductions required:- BF / BOF efficiency programmes; Biomass reductants; CCUS; Scrap-based EAFs; Optimize DRI and EAF; and DRI and EAF using Hydrogen

McKinsey & Co - Safeguarding green steel in Europe - Facing the natural gas challenge, 21062022

European steelmakers need to reconsider their decarbonization strategies because of rising natural-gas and electricity prices, as well as potential limitations on the natural-gas supply. Read the attached McKinsey & Company report

Severstal Dearborn Mill Tour (2012)

Video tour of the Severstal Dearborn Mill showing facilities such as BOF, ladle metallurgy facility, vacuum degasser, continuous casters, hot rolling mill, cold rolling mill, annealing, tempering, galvanising (Unfortunately this mill closed in 2020 but the video is still interesting to watch as it shows some of the processes of steel making)