The winners of the 11th Steelie Awards were revealed on 14 October 2020.

The Steelie Awards recognise member companies for their contribution to the steel industry over a one-year period in a series of categories impacting the industry.

The Steelies are awarded in seven categories. The 2020 shortlisted companies and winners are as follows:

Excellence in digital communications

Nominees:

• JSW Steel Limited
• Metinvest Holding LLC
• POSCO
• Tata Steel Limited
• Ternium

Winner: Tata Steel Limited

Judges for Excellence in digital communications:

• Ian Higginson, Founder, Creative Director, 
• Cloe Roycroft – Account Director, Corporate & Public Affairs, 

 

Innovation of the year

Nominees:

• Big River Steel – Development of Ultra High Strength (>100ksi yield) hot rolled steel up to 10mm thickness through a mini CSP mill with outstanding toughness
• JFE Steel Corporation – Development of resource saving type Si gradient steel sheet for high-speed motors
• JFE Steel Corporation – Extra-thick high arrest steel plate for ultra large container ships contributing to maritime logistics revolution (ARRESTEX)
• POSCO – Manufacturing technology of high Mn steels for cryogenic LNG transportation; production, commercialisation and certification
• Severstal (PAO) – The digitalisation of steelmaking

Winner: JFE Steel Corporation, Development of resource saving type Si gradient steel sheet for high-speed motors

Judges for Innovation of the year:

• worldsteel Technology Committee (TECO) Steering Group
• worldsteel Environment Committee (ECO) Steering Group

 

Excellence in sustainability

Nominees:

• Gerdau S.A. – Gerdau Sustainable House
• JFE Steel Corporation – JFE Steel’s contribution to improve marine environments using steel slag products
• Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK Group) – Processing of a 5 Mt metallurgical slag dump and reclamation of the adjacent territory
• POSCO – Triton Sea Forestation Project
• Ternium – Natural gas replacement by the use of biomethane from a landfill at stationary combustion sources
• Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais S.A. (USIMINAS) – Diversity and Inclusion Programme

Winner: POSCO, Triton Sea Forestation Project

Judges for Excellence in Sustainability:

• Bruce McKean, Director,  
• Graham Lee, Head of Research, 
• Runa Sarkar, Professor, Economics, 
• Hongtao Wang, Associate professor, co-founder, 
• Jim Woods, Founding Partner, Creative Director, 

 

Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment

Nominees:

• Baosteel, China Baowu Group – Use of LCA on carbon trading market policy making
• HYUNDAI Steel Company – Use of LCA to support Integrated Management System development
• JSW Steel Limited – Use of LCA in new product development
• Tata Steel Europe – Use of LCA to evaluate technologies for reduced greenhouse gas emission steelmaking
• Tata Steel Limited – Use of LCA to assess new steel solutions in the construction sector

Winner: Baosteel, China Baowu Group – Use of LCA on carbon trading market policy making

Judges for Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment:

• Therese Daxner, Co-Founder & Managing Director, 
• Roland Geyer, Professor, 
• Xianzheng Gong, Professor, 
• Atsushi Inaba, Director,  
• Tom Penny, Sustainability Professional, Independent
• Brandie Sebastian, Sustainability Practice Co-lead, 

 

Excellence in education and training

Nominees:

• EVRAZ – Top 300/Top 1,000
• JSW Steel Limited – Virtual Academy
• Tata Steel Limited – Digie-Shala (Capability Development)
• Ternium – Ternium University
• TMK (PAO) – TMK2U E-Learning Developers School

Winner: Tata Steel Limited – Digie-Shala (Capability Development)

Judges for education and training:

• Martin Kupp, Professor for Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Jean-Baptiste Say Institute, 
• Matthew Mulford, Visiting Senior Fellow, 
• Eric J. Palmiere, Professor of Metallurgy and Thermomechanical Processing, 
• Geert Scheipers, Core Faculty Member and Academic Director ‘Business Strategy and Leadership’,  and Partner, 

 

Journalist of the year

Nominees:

• Hongmei Li, Head of Editorial, Mysteel Global
• Colin Richardson, Editor, Argus Media
• Annalisa Villa, Team Leader News, EMEA, S&P Global Platts

Winner: Colin Richardson, Editor, Argus Media

Nominees are culled from the worldsteel media cuttings management system and voted on by members of the worldsteel communications committee.

 

Excellence in communications programmes

Nominees:

• JSW Steel Limited – Roof to Dream
• Tata Steel Limited – Celebration of 100 years of India’s first planned industrial township
• Tenaris – Tenaris communications response to COVID-19
• Ternium – Ternium communications response to COVID-19
• Ternium – The soul of Mexico

Winner: JSW Steel Limited – Roof to Dream

Judges for Excellence in communications programmes:

• Nick Andrews, SVP & Senior Partner, 
• Peter Wilson, Director – Corporate & Public Affairs, 

 

The selection process for the shortlist varies between awards. In most cases, the submissions are requested via the appropriate worldsteel committee. Entries are then judged by selected expert panels.