Blogs by worldsteel experts and occasionally by guest bloggers. The blogs cover a wide variety of issues affecting the steel industry. We hope you will find this section useful and look forward to your comments.

7 January 2022

Blog: New year message from the Director General

worldsteel Director General Edwin Basson outlines our three top priorities for 2022.

13 January 2021

Blog: New year message from the Director General – 2021

worldsteel Director General Edwin Basson reflects on 2020 and discusses the priorities for 2021 and the years to come.

15 January 2020

Blog: Making steel in the 2020s

worldsteel Director General Edwin Basson outlines what he sees as the two key challenges for the steel industry in the new decade.

29 January 2019

Blog: Message from the Director General

worldsteel Director General Edwin Basson reflects on the two main challenges the steel industry will need to address in 2019.