The winners of the 11th Steelie Awards were revealed on 14 October 2020.
The Steelie Awards recognise member companies for their contribution to the steel industry over a one-year period in a series of categories impacting the industry.
The Steelies are awarded in seven categories. The 2020 shortlisted companies and winners are as follows:
Excellence in digital communications
Nominees:
- JSW Steel Limited
- Metinvest Holding LLC
- POSCO
- Tata Steel Limited
- Ternium
Winner: Tata Steel Limited
Judges for Excellence in digital communications:
Innovation of the year
Nominees:
- Big River Steel – Development of Ultra High Strength (>100ksi yield) hot rolled steel up to 10mm thickness through a mini CSP mill with outstanding toughness
- JFE Steel Corporation – Development of resource saving type Si gradient steel sheet for high-speed motors
- JFE Steel Corporation – Extra-thick high arrest steel plate for ultra large container ships contributing to maritime logistics revolution (ARRESTEX)
- POSCO – Manufacturing technology of high Mn steels for cryogenic LNG transportation; production, commercialisation and certification
- Severstal (PAO) – The digitalisation of steelmaking
Winner: JFE Steel Corporation, Development of resource saving type Si gradient steel sheet for high-speed motors
Judges for Innovation of the year:
- worldsteel Technology Committee (TECO) Steering Group
- worldsteel Environment Committee (ECO) Steering Group
Excellence in sustainability
Nominees:
- Gerdau S.A. – Gerdau Sustainable House
- JFE Steel Corporation – JFE Steel’s contribution to improve marine environments using steel slag products
- Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK Group) – Processing of a 5 Mt metallurgical slag dump and reclamation of the adjacent territory
- POSCO – Triton Sea Forestation Project
- Ternium – Natural gas replacement by the use of biomethane from a landfill at stationary combustion sources
- Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais S.A. (USIMINAS) – Diversity and Inclusion Programme
Winner: POSCO, Triton Sea Forestation Project
Judges for Excellence in Sustainability:
- Bruce McKean, Director, Thistledown Foundation
- Graham Lee, Head of Research, TDI Sustainability
- Runa Sarkar, Professor, Economics, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
- Hongtao Wang, Associate professor, co-founder, College of Architecture and Environment, Sichuan University IKE Environmental Tech
- Jim Woods, Founding Partner, Creative Director, JimWoodsPR
Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment
Nominees:
- Baosteel, China Baowu Group – Use of LCA on carbon trading market policy making
- HYUNDAI Steel Company – Use of LCA to support Integrated Management System development
- JSW Steel Limited – Use of LCA in new product development
- Tata Steel Europe – Use of LCA to evaluate technologies for reduced greenhouse gas emission steelmaking
- Tata Steel Limited – Use of LCA to assess new steel solutions in the construction sector
Winner: Baosteel, China Baowu Group – Use of LCA on carbon trading market policy making
Judges for Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment:
- Therese Daxner, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Daxner & Merl GmbH
- Roland Geyer, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Xianzheng Gong, Professor, Beijing University of Technology
- Atsushi Inaba, Director, Japan Life Cycle Assessment Facilitation Centre
- Tom Penny, Sustainability Professional, Independent
- Brandie Sebastian, Sustainability Practice Co-lead, John Beath Environmental, LLC
Excellence in education and training
Nominees:
- EVRAZ – Top 300/Top 1,000
- JSW Steel Limited – Virtual Academy
- Tata Steel Limited – Digie-Shala (Capability Development)
- Ternium – Ternium University
- TMK (PAO) – TMK2U E-Learning Developers School
Winner: Tata Steel Limited – Digie-Shala (Capability Development)
Judges for education and training:
- Martin Kupp, Professor for Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Jean-Baptiste Say Institute, ESCP Europe Business School
- Matthew Mulford, Visiting Senior Fellow, The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Eric J. Palmiere, Professor of Metallurgy and Thermomechanical Processing, The University of Sheffield
- Geert Scheipers, Core Faculty Member and Academic Director ‘Business Strategy and Leadership’, Antwerp Management School and Partner, Delaware Consulting
Journalist of the year
Nominees:
- Hongmei Li, Head of Editorial, Mysteel Global
- Colin Richardson, Editor, Argus Media
- Annalisa Villa, Team Leader News, EMEA, S&P Global Platts
Winner: Colin Richardson, Editor, Argus Media
Nominees are culled from the worldsteel media cuttings management system and voted on by members of the worldsteel communications committee.
Excellence in communications programmes
Nominees:
- JSW Steel Limited – Roof to Dream
- Tata Steel Limited – Celebration of 100 years of India’s first planned industrial township
- Tenaris – Tenaris communications response to COVID-19
- Ternium – Ternium communications response to COVID-19
- Ternium – The soul of Mexico
Winner: JSW Steel Limited – Roof to Dream
Judges for Excellence in communications programmes:
The selection process for the shortlist varies between awards. In most cases, the submissions are requested via the appropriate worldsteel committee. Entries are then judged by selected expert panels.