The continuous annealing of flat steel improves its properties for applications such as automotive manufacturing. Scheduling these processes on Parallel Heterogeneous Annealing Lines (PHALs) is complex due to diverse coil properties, incompatible process modes, and due date constraints....

Iron and steelmaking is the industrial sector with the highest absolute CO2 emissions covered by the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). This report aims to describe key developments of the sector in the period from 2005 to 2019. It identifies key drivers behind the trends in...

The Research Fund for Coal and Steel has made significant contributions to the European Green Deal and contributes through its steel-related research and innovation projects to the Clean Steel Partnership, the EU's new industrial strategy and the sustainable Europe investment plan. The fund's...

The Research Fund for Coal and Steel has made significant contributions to the European Green Deal and the Just Transition Mechanism through its coal-related research and innovation projects. The fund's portfolio of projects addresses key areas such as the creation of new jobs and retraining of...

The steel industry is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for approximately 7% of worldwide emissions. As steelmakers in the EU invest heavily in decarbonisation, the success of these efforts hinges on the market's ability to differentiate and reward...

Steelmaking represents one of the most carbon-intensive industries – second only to cement – and is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions. The creation of a market for premium, low-carbon emission steel products, or ‘green steel’, could serve as a means of generating revenue streams...

The 2024 assessments of the RFCS Technical Groups (TGA1-TGA5) confirm the steel sector's critical role in achieving EU climate and industrial goals. Projects demonstrate strong alignment with the European Green Deal and Clean Steel Partnership, advancing decarbonisation, circularity, and...

The steel industry in Pakistan includes both large firms in the organized sector and smaller manufacturers operating in the informal economy; however, the largest 20 companies cater to 80 percent of local steel demand. Contributing an estimated 2 percent to the country's Gross Domestic Product...

Our European Union was built on a community of coal and steel. Today, this sector is a key building block of Europe's green and digital transition and defence capabilities, and more broadly of the EU's economic security and social stability.

This article proposes to take a fresh look at Germany’s colonial past and its key players in order to trace the particular influence of economy in colonial contexts. It presents the Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) as a colonial actor outside the sectors typically explored in the context of the...

The continuous annealing of flat steel improves its properties for applications such as automotive manufacturing. Scheduling these processes on Parallel Heterogeneous Annealing Lines (PHALs) is complex due to diverse coil properties, incompatible process modes, and due date constraints....

As a critical nexus for both grain production and carbon emissions, the synergistic development of the plantation system is of strategic importance for realizing China's "dual-carbon" goal, A comprehensive assessment of the decoupling status and its driving factors between these dimensions...

The EU steel sector can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 64-81 Mt CO2-eq. annually by 2050 through circular economy (CE) measures. CE can also significantly decrease EU demand for ores and energy products, leading to a EUR 7 billion annual increase in the EU trade balance with significant...

The EU CBAM is the EU's landmark tool to put a fair price on the greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted during the production of certain GHG-intensive goods, including iron and steel, entering the EU. It will ensure that the EU's climate objectives are not undermined and encourage cleaner industrial...

The Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) is a European Union fund that supports research and innovation in the coal and steel sectors. Within the coal sector, RFCS focuses on promoting a sustainable and environmentally friendly transition, supporting the development of new technologies and...

The aim of the article is to present the author’s concept of steel market enterprises’ maturity for functioning in Industry 4.0. The model is based on the assessment of key technologies or pillars of the new industrial concept. The proposed assessment includes five levels of investment...

Objective This study compared the clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of parenteral iron, using intravenous iron sucrose (IVIS) therapy against the standard regimen of oral iron (OI) therapy for managing iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) among pregnant women in a natural primary care setting in...

The closure of the steelworks has meant the loss of an important employer in the region. The repurposing and retraining activities that followed can be seen as a showcase example of a successful redevelopment project with a strong reskilling perspective. When the Odense Steel Shipyard closed...

The closure of the steelworks has meant the loss of an important employer in the region. The repurposing and retraining activities that followed can be seen as a showcase example of a successful redevelopment project with a strong reskilling perspective. When the Odense Steel Shipyard closed...

The repurposing project of the Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark is a showcase example of a successful redevelopment project with a strong reskilling perspective. When the Odense Steel Shipyard closed down, a concept was developed on how to reskill the laid-off workers and get them back into...

The repurposing project of the Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark is a showcase example of a successful redevelopment project with a strong reskilling perspective. When the Odense Steel Shipyard closed down, a concept was developed on how to reskill the laid-off workers and get them back into...

This report presents some EUROPLEXUS [1] simulations of thin steel plates with various types of pre-formed holes or slits that have been tested in the SIMLab Shock Tube Facility (SSTF) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. The SSTF is able to generate...

This evaluation report is part of the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe activities related to the Green Transition. It presents the assessment of the Co-programmed European Partnership Clean Steel Partnership (CSP) against the evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence, efficiency,...

Canada has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. A key element of achieving this target is Canada's just transition process. In 2003, the Canadian just transition started with the province of Ontario's provinces commitment to phase-out coal and was perpetuated by the national...

The presence of trade unions in hard-to-abate sectors (e.g., steel plants) adds up to the richness of perspectives that is necessary to understand and meet the needs of groups directly affected by, and mainly involved in, the sectors' transition, such as workers and their families. - Trade...

Canada has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. A key element of achieving this target is Canada's just transition process. In 2003, the Canadian just transition started with the province of Ontario's provinces commitment to phase-out coal and was perpetuated by the national...

The presence of trade unions in hard-to-abate sectors (e.g., steel plants) adds up to the richness of perspectives that is necessary to understand and meet the needs of groups directly affected by, and mainly involved in, the sectors' transition, such as workers and their families. - Trade...

Throughout history, governments and investors have relied on predictions of prices for a broad spectrum of commodities. Using time-series data covering 08/23/2013-04/15/2021, this study investigates the challenging problem of predicting scrap steel prices, which are issued daily for the...

Purpose - This paper aims to assess the economic impacts of the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach - We constructed a general equilibrium model to assess the economic impacts of the CBAM on the macroeconomic indicators of Vietnam....