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Making steel sustainable
A key challenge for automotive materials producers is to lower the carbon footprint in the production process to ensure this contributes to meeting Paris Agreement targets.
AMS spoke ArcelorMittal’s Alan Knight, head of corporate responsibility and sustainable development and Jean-Martin Van der Hoeven, head of sustainable development– Flat Carbon Europe, to get some insight into the strategies and technologies the steel maker is implementing to dramatically reduce its carbon emissions in steel production.
Read more on ArcelorMittal’s carbon reduction road map here: automotive.arcelormittal.com
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