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VOL. 16 • NO. 3 • April 2022

Special Features

Worldsteel announces the 2022 Steel Sustainability worldsteel’s data collection programme. the
Champions data for lcI should cover more than 60% of the
company’s crude steel production and should be
the World Steel Association (worldsteel) has recognised
10 companies as Steel Sustainability champions for less than 5 years old. this threshold has increased
their work in 2021. from 50% of a company’s crude steel production
in previous years, raising the bar for this year’s
the 2022 Steel Sustainability champions are: champions even further.

• Arcelor Mittal • Be shortlisted in one of the 5 categories of
• Blue Scope Steel Limited the worldsteel Steelie Awards or must be
• JFE Steel Corporation recognised in the worldsteel Safety and Health
• JSW Steel Limited Recognition Programme. the Steelie categories
are: excellence in sustainability, excellence in life
• Nippon Steel Corporation cycle Assessment, excellence in education and
• POSCO training, Innovation of the year and excellence in
• Tata Steel Europe communications programmes.
• Tata Steel Limited Worldsteel welcomes New Members
• Tenaris the Board of Members of the World Steel Association
• Ternium (worldsteel) has today welcomed the following steel
Recognised for the fifth consecutive year this year, producers as regular members:
tata Steel europe, tata Steel limited and tenaris have • Arjas Steel Private Limited (India), represented by
been champions every year since the programme’s Sridhar KRISHNAMOORTHY
launch in 2018. POScO is recognised for the first time. • Jindal Shadeed Iron & Steel LLC (Oman),
At the beginning of March this year, worldsteel represented by Pawan SINGH
announced the launch of its new Sustainability charter.
the newly updated charter includes 9 principles and • Jingye group (China), represented by LI Huiming
20 criteria covering the areas of environment, social, • Nat Steel Holdings Pte Ltd, represented by Ee Man
governance and economics (eSGe). to be able to sign TAN
the charter, steel companies must meet the 20 criteria • TORE STEEL d.o.o. (Slovenia), represented by
and thus demonstrate their commitment to being a Viktor KOVAČIČ
sustainable company and to worldsteel’s sustainability • Vallourec (France), represented by Lothar
programmes. BIRKhÄUSeR
Signing the charter is the basis for eligibility to become the following organisation is welcomed as an affiliated
a Sustainability champion, but charter Members must member:
go even further. they must also do the following to be
recognised as Sustainability champions: cAReS (UK certification Authority for Reinforcing
Steels) (UK), represented by Lee BRANKLEY
• Provide Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data to

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