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 December 2018

Blog: Setting the rules for the Paris Agreement

A worldsteel delegation is attending COP24 in Katowice, Poland, Andrew Purvis, Director, Safety, Health and Environment will keep us up to date with what is happening there. Read his first blog.

23 October 2018

Blog: Driving safety performance to the next level

worldsteel Safety, Health and Environment Director Andrew Purvis puts forward two focus areas to consider to drive safety performance to the next level.

7 September 2018

Blog: steelChallenge-13 is open

Scott Chubbs, Director steeluniversity, gives us insight into the regional distribution of the steelChallenge participants, both student and industry. Will you be taking part in this year's challenge?

24 August 2018

Blog – The circular economy: implications for the steel industry

worldsteel Economics and Statistics Director Dr Nae Hee Han discusses the implications of the implementation of circular economy principles on the steel industry and steel using sectors.

15 June 2018

Blog: Steel digital strategy guided by standardisation

Our Head of Technology, Rizwan Janjua, discusses the benefits of implementing Industry 4.0 technology and why stardardisation is crucial.

30 May 2018

Blog: How is the steel industry meeting the challenge of climate change?

The steel industry is ready to meet the global challenge of climate change by reducing energy and emission intensity across the industry.

17 May 2018

Blog: If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it!

worldsteel's Head of Technology Rizwan Janjua explains why it is crucial for steel companies to quantify and measure their performance against that of other steel companies.

Blog: The future of global scrap availability

worldsteel’s Head of Raw Materials Markets, Baris Çiftçi, discusses global ferrous scrap availability projections and what this means.

26 April 2018

Blog: Steel spurs productivity improvements in construction

Following our constructsteel conference in London last week, Terrence Busuttil, worldsteel Head of Construction Coalitions, explains why it is necessary to promote steel use in construction.