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Time for NZ to cut construction sector emissions and get quality up to scratch
Cutting the carbon emissions of our buildings is critical to achieving New Zealand’s low emissions future – and it will require more than focusing solely on carbon as the instrument of change. A recent report highlighted New Zealand’s problem with embodied carbon in construction. But we think carbon is only part of the story and a wider approach is needed to clean up the construction industry, which includes a bigger role for New Zealand’s metal manufacturing sector. Read our insight…
Our submission on the Zero Carbon Bill
Why are metals sector organisations so critical to New Zealand’s transition to a circular and low emission economy? Nick Collins, CEO of Metals New Zealand and member of the Sustainable Steel Council recently provided the answers an oral submission to the Environment Select Committee on the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon Bill) Amendment Act. A written version of the submissions is available for download here.
Kernohan Engineering Goes Carbon Neutral
Taking the journey to carbon neutrality isn’t as hard as you might think. Nelson-based Kernohan Engineering, a maintenance service company supporting the timber, oil and gas, fishing, dairy, cement and mining industries, has recently been certified carbon neutral. Kernohan Engineering wanted to understand its carbon footprint and to know that it was offsetting its emissions to achieve carbon neutrality. This was part of its goal to not only supporting New Zealand’s transition to a net zero carbon economy by 2050,…
Welcome to our new website
We are delighted to launch our new website. It marks the re-launch of the Sustainable Steel Council with a new vision and mission to enable our local steel industry to play its vital role in accelerating New Zealand’s transition to a circular and low-emissions economy. We’ve been thrilled to work with Glue Creative and Latitude Strategy & Communications who have done a great job in designing and building the site to reflect our new focus. The Sustainable Steel Council’s work…

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This is a collection of resources to support members on their SSC Certification journey. You will find links to these resources in your audit tool document alongside each relevant section.

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Writing a Sustainability Policy

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SSC Environmental Management System (EMS) Guidance

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SSC CEEQUAL Roadmap

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SSC Modern Slavery Statement

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The Aotearoa Transformation Agenda & Plan

The Aotearoa Transformation Agenda & Plan is an industry-wide blue-print to position our industry for a sustainable future.

It’s based on Treasury’s Living Standards Framework, which looks at performance across four capitals:

  • Human capital
  • Social Capital
  • Natural Capital, and
  • Financial Capital.

This is a really important agenda to us, and we’re very passionate about driving its uptake – because we know it’s the right thing to do!

We want to be seen as a forward thinking industry, that directs its own future… rather than an industry dinosaur! We also see this as a key way to engage our tribe of metalheads to innovate successfully and work together for the benefit of our industry overall.

For our member companies, having a document like this gives you a means to promote your contributions to the Living Standards Framework and leverage it in tenders and public relations. It also helps you identify industry priorities for Government support.

We want you to be able to see your own organisation’s contribution to the bigger picture, and create alignment on the important issues across our industry.

View and download The-Aotearoa-Steel-Industry-Transformation-Agenda & Plan

It’s comprised of two documents:

  • The Aotearoa Transformation Agenda – This sets out the goals of where the industry needs to get to in order to be prepared for the future
  • The Aotearoa Transformation Plan – This sets out the actions that we’ll need to undertake in order to achieve the Agenda. Goals and plans to achieve these will be set across three timeframes – immediate (now to 12 months), medium term and long-term.

Click HERE  to view and down the Agenda & Plan

Who is covered?

As this is a voluntary process – our hope is that this Agenda & Plan will cover as much of the steel industry as possible.

Ultimately, those committed will be those who buy into it’s value, and how it can help our industry to work together and have a meaningful impact on the inter-generational wellbeing of Kiwis.

From a materials perspective it covers both carbon and stainless steel, across all steel products and applications. This includes steel roofing, light gauge framing, stainless steel manufacturing, structural steel fabrication and more.

Three categories of participation:

  1. Manufacturer (New Zealand Steel is working on their section now)
  2. Rest of the channel (e.g. rollformers, fabricators, designers etc), and
  3. Industry support organisations (SCNZ, Metals NZ, NZSSDA, MRM, NASH etc).

We’re asking our industry to step up by signing and committing themselves to the Agenda & Plan now.

Be an industry leader and sign and commit to this Agenda and Plan!