The World Steel Association (worldsteel) has revealed the winners of the 13th Steelie Awards on 17 October.

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 six categories. The 2022 shortlisted companies and winners are as follows:

Excellence in low-carbon steel production:

Nominees:

  • Ansteel Group Corporation Limited Low CO2 emission blast furnace charge solution based on low basicity high silicon pellets and its application
  • Ansteel Group Corporation Limited The R&D of digitisation and networking energy management system at the Bayuquan site
  • ArcelorMittal CO2 reduction by means of coke oven gas co-injection in blast furnace
  • JSW Steel Limited Project SEED (Sustainable Energy Environment and Decarbonisation)
  • Tenaris Smart furnace for scrap use optimisation based on mathematical models and data science
  • Ternium Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) in Ternium Mexico

Winner: 

  • Ansteel Group Corporation Limited Low CO2 emission blast furnace charge solution based on low basicity high silicon pellets and its application

Judges for Excellence in low-carbon steel production:

  • Pinakin Chaubal, Vice President and Group CTO, ArcelorMittal
  • Professor Jonathan Cullen, Professor of Sustainable Engineering, Cambridge University
  • Åsa Ekdahl, Head, Environment and Climate Change, worldsteel
  • José Fonrouge, Environment Director, Ternium
  • Rizwan Janjua, Head, Technology, worldsteel
  • Professor Dr. Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Division Director, Future Energy and Industry Systems, Wuppertal Institute
  • Andrew Purvis, Director, Sustainable Manufacturing, worldsteel
  • D B Sundara Ramam, Vice President, Raw Materials, Tata Steel

Innovation of the year:

Nominees:

  • Big River Steel, a U. S. Steel Company Development of a single phase (SP) nano-precipitation strengthened batch-annealed SP590 sheet steel with outstanding formability: a low-cost, greener DP590 alternative?
  • HYUNDAI Steel Company Development of materials for electric vehicle reducer
  • HYUNDAI Steel Company Development of 1.5 GPa hot stamping steel in conjunction with high toughness performance
  • JFE Steel Corporation Novel arc welding process for heavy-thickness steel plates with ultra-narrow groove weld joints
  • POSCO STS high-speed extended width AC electrolytic pickling technology

Winner: 

  • POSCO STS high-speed extended width AC electrolytic pickling technology

Judges for innovation of the year:

  • worldsteel Technology Committee (TECO) Steering Group
  • worldsteel Environment Committee (ECO) Steering Group

Excellence in sustainability:

Nominees:

  • Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Limited An innovative project for utilising 100% induction furnace slag to replace unsustainable fired clay bricks and stone chips in Bangladesh
  • Gerdau S.A. BIOCOKE
  •  JFE Steel Corporation Refractories for hot metal transport vessels contributing to a sustainable society
  • JSW Steel Limited Development of construction sand from waste steel slag
  • POSCO Recycling shell waste for sustainable steelmaking

Winner: 

  • POSCO Recycling shell waste for sustainable steelmaking

Judges for Excellence in sustainability:

Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment:

Nominees:

  • ArcelorMittal Carbon footprint of cold stamping and hot stamping components
  • HBIS Group Co., Ltd. Using LCA to promote the carbon emission reduction in the whole value chain of hydrogen-based DRI projects
  • JSW Steel Limited Developing and implementing an Environment Product Declaration (EPD) programme and promoting it in market communications
  • Nippon Steel Corporation EPD development for steel products
  • Tata Steel PACI – a tool to support innovation and customer engagement through life cycle thinking in the steel value chain
  • Tata Steel Using LCA to identify environmental hotspots to drive decarbonisation

Winner: 

  • Tata Steel PACI – a tool to support innovation and customer engagement through life cycle thinking in the steel value chain

Judges for Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment:

Excellence in education and training:

Nominees:

  • Emirates Steel Arkan Career Aspirations Programme
  • HBIS Group Co., Ltd. High Skilled Talents Training Centre
  • JSW Steel Limited TalenTech
  • Tata Steel Capability Building for Agile Transformation (UDAAN)
  • Ternium Competences Certification Programme for Risky Tasks (CCRT)

Winner: 

  • Ternium Competences Certification Programme for Risky Tasks (CCRT)

Judges for Excellence in education and training:

Excellence in communications programmes:

Nominees:

  • Gerdau S.A. How the century-old Gerdau transformed its image and became the steel company with the highest global engagement
  • HYUNDAI Steel Company Children’s Vocational Experience Center
  • JSW Steel Limited ‘Always Around’ campaign
  • POSCO Programme designed to bring the steel industry closer to the social media-savvy MZ generation
  • Tata Steel Communication on diversity and inclusion
  • Tenaris New way of working and new offices
  • Ternium Ternium Safety Day

Winner: 

  • Gerdau S.A. How the century-old Gerdau transformed its image and became the steel company with the highest global engagement

Judges for Excellence in communications programmes: