Companies, Innovation, Steel, Environment, The European steel industry: main paths to the smart and low carbon industry of the future, EU Industry Days and Eurofer – Estep workshops
Smart industry
European steel industry already a world leader in environmental and climate performance
They were held on 22-23 February 2018 at the headquarters of the European Commission Covent Garden and the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Brussels
EU industry days updated stakeholders on the Commission’s strategic approach to industrial policy and actions to further develop industrial competitiveness in Europe.
They are also used as a forum in which stakeholders who contribute to European industrial competitiveness have been able to showcase their activities, learn from each other, discuss cross-cutting issues and develop joint visions for the future.
The interested parties came from multiple industrial sectors, finance, research and innovation, public administration and administration.
The EUROFER-ESTEP seminar was titled “The European steel industry: the main paths to the intelligent and low carbon industry of the future”.
The European steel industry is already a world leader in environmental and climate performance.
Steel production in the EU has had its CO2 emissions and the energy consumption per ton of steel halved since the 1960s.
The seminar addressed the way the steel industry is working with other industrial sectors to achieve further progress on its main pathways to the smart and low-carbon industry of the future.
EUROFER and invited speakers have looked, in particular, at Carbon Direct Avoidance (CDA) and Smart Carbon Usage (SCU) as the main routes, and have also examined the dominant role of the circular economy.
The EUROFER and ESTEP jobs on these main routes are part of an ongoing steel exercise to play its part in turning the EU into a competitive low carbon economy.
Maintaining technical leadership and steel production in Europe, which aims to achieve the objectives of the Paris agreement, is the biggest long-term challenge that industry faces.
The steel industry’s target for a joint steel initiative – which motivated EUROFER and ESTEP to host this seminar – will create new jobs, strengthen the high skills of European workers and improve the sustainability and typing of all industrial sectors concerned.
February 23, 2018
Source Eurofer
