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16 March 2020

Impact of COVID-19 virus on worldsteel activities

Director General Edwin Basson outlines the measures worldsteel has taken to comply to the Belgian government's position of "social distancing".

Artist's Ras Abu Aboud stadium
10 March 2020

World Cup shipping container stadium aims for post-2022 legacy

Modified steel shipping containers are being used to construct the Ras Abu Aboud stadium in Qatar for the 2022 Fifa World Cup.

25 February 2020

January 2020 crude steel production

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to worldsteel was 154.4 million tonnes (Mt) in January 2020, a 2.1% increase compared to January 2019.

Sarens 'Big Carl' crane
24 February 2020

World’s biggest crane ‘Big Carl’ is steel-built behemoth

The largest crane in the world, the SGC-250, uses the power of high-strength steel to deliver unprecedented lifting capacity.

Climeworks carbon collector unit
6 February 2020

Steel-built carbon capture machines are removing CO2 from the air

The Climeworks project has set up a carbon capture and storage facility at a remote site in Iceland.

3 February 2020

Invitation to register to steelTalks #10 - 18 March @ 12.30 UTC

Boris P. Dyakonov from Tochka Bank for Entrepreneurs/Ural Federal University will deliver an online lecture about the Impact of innovation on modern business models. Everyone is welcome to join.

27 January 2020

Global crude steel output increases by 3.4% in 2019

Global crude steel production reached 1,869.9 million tonnes (Mt) for the year 2019, up by 3.4% compared to 2018.

Yara Birkeland autonomous ship
20 January 2020

Artificial intelligence, steel and the future of shipping

Shipping is set to change as new technologies go mainstream, but steel will remain indispensable.

15 January 2020

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.

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