Reduced CO2 emissions, increased recycling and improved productivity, with less impact on our environment. This is what New Zealand  wants. Steel is at the heart of solving these challenges as a critical enabler of the circular economy. Steel is infinitely recyclable and its by-products and waste energies are valuable resources. For example, slag from steelmaking is used for civil works, thereby saving natural resources such as river gravel and scoria. New Zealand Steel, produced up to 70% of its own…

We’re very excited to welcome our new student intern Hannah Wu. Hannah, 19, has just completed her second year studying civil engineering at Auckland University. She will be with us over the 2019/2020 Summer academic holiday, to help introduce our members to the Sustainable Steel Council’s new certification tool, which we are developing and will be piloting over the next few months with the goal of making it available online in 2021. “It’s a really fantastic opportunity for me to…

Nothing lasts forever – well, that’s not entirely true, some things can be made to last forever. Things like steel which can be recycled infinitely without degrading its qualities: exceptional durability, the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any other commonly used material and formability among others. The fact that steel lasts forever and can be reused, repurposed and recycled in a continuous cycle, makes it critical at a time when we’re trying to reduce our impact on the climate. There are…