INNOVATION AND DE-CARBONIZATION IN THE CANADIAN STEEL INDUSTRY - Peter Warrian and Homeira Afshar

Originality/Value - The paradoxical case of using the resources of the pro-carbon group to identify the future de-carbon technology roadmap for steel is explained by fact that the technology challenge is exactly to the ‘hot end’ furnace processes of the steel mill. [...] The industry perspective is summarized in the overview of the meeting agenda: 6 The steel industry is now facing one of the biggest adjustment challenges of its time: the need to move towards decarbonisation of steel production. [...] A steel company executive summarized the CCRA’s role in the following way: The history of the CCRA has shown that it can adapt to the changing needs of its members, the coal sector and the steel sector. [...] In addition to the technical capacity in the coal companies, the CCRA, on the steel side, was led by the internal R&D expertise for the primary production technology and processes in the steel mills. [...] The practical, but ironic, implication is to turn to the technical expertise and technologies within the primary ‘hot end’ facilities of the integrated steel producers, the very sources that led the Canadian companies to expand and entrench carbonization, to now lead the de- carbonization effort.