SteelCast

Episode 28: A new beginning for the steel industry

Two weeks after Tata Steel announced its proposal to restructure the UK business, enabling it to transition to scrap-based ‘green’ steelmaking, SteelCast host Tim Rutter speaks to Global CEO and MD of Tata Steel, TV Narendran.

Two years and 27 episodes after the first SteelCast podcast started discussing the challenges and opportunities of decarbonising the steel industry, the topic is as relevant as ever.

Mr Narendran talks about the difficult journey that lies ahead not only in terms of the people and communities affected, but also in keeping customers happy through the transition and the challenges of changing technology and huge capital investments.

But he has a long-term vision to create a world-leading steel business at the centre of a green industrial ecosystem – a business that’s good for steel communities, good for customers, good for the climate and good for a resilient UK industrial economy. With his clarity and determination, you wouldn’t bet against it.

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Episode 27: Time to ACT for transformation

While Tata Steel has proposed the technology route it will take from the crossroads it found itself at, the construction industry is facing similar difficult choices.

Until now, the construction industry has designed to build, but for a sustainable future it must keep deconstruction and reuse in mind. Can Tata Steel’s Building Systems UK offer sustainable solutions as well as innovative products to be a market leader in the circular economy?

Gareth Brookes speaks to Jo Evans and Barry Rust of Building Systems UK, a Tata Steel enterprise, along with industry leaders and Welsh Government to find out what the future holds for the construction industry and what part steel has to play.

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Episode 26: Steel has a vital role to play in a future green economy

The Climate Change Committee’s Senior Analyst for Industrial Decarbonisation, Michael Lord, recently visited Tata Steel’s Port Talbot steelworks with some colleagues to see first-hand the current integrated steelmaking process and to hear about the challenges and opportunities of decarbonising one of Britain’s most important industry.

In talking to host, Tim Rutter, Michael spoke about the role of the climate change committee, the importance of decarbonising energy and his hopes for the future of the UK steel industry.

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Episode 25: Collaboration is key (Live from the UK Metals Expo)

Two days before Tata Steel announced a proposal to decarbonise its UK operations with support from the UK Government, SteelCast visited the UK Metals Expo. Metal suppliers, manufacturers, customers and competitors alike came together under the same roof and one thing was clear… we’re not going to get far without each other.

What will decarbonisation look like for the UK steel industry? Can we decarbonise the economy without steel? What would electric arc furnaces mean for the company’s operations and customers throughout UK supply chains? Is carbon capture and storage a viable option? With new technology on the horizon, how will we fill the skills gap?

Tata Steel’s Gareth Brookes spoke to industry and academic leaders – including UK Metals Expo chairman, Lord Rupert Redesdale – to find out.

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Read the 'State of the UK Metals Industry' here: https://ukmetalsexpo.com/state-of-the-uk-metals-industry-report-highlights-opportunities-and-challenges-for-sustainable-growth/

Episode 24: What do we want? UK steel. When do we want it? NOW! (Live from the London march)

Hundreds of steel workers from across the UK came together to march upon Westminster and demand that the Government invests in the steel industry.

Led by Community, Unite and GMB trades unions, their demands were for the Government to create a level playing field with competitors on energy costs, to invest capital in new green technologies, and to stop imports of cheap carbon-intensive steel.

In the shadow of Big Ben, many MPs representing steel constituencies came to talk to steelworkers about their concerns.

We caught up with some of them to ask how they would support the UK’s steel industry.

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Episode 23: Wales can be at the heart of a new industrial revolution

New CEO of Net Zero Industry Wales, Ben Burggraaf, returns to his former workplace, Tata Steel’s integrated steelworks at Port Talbot, to talk about the huge opportunities that he believes exist for industries and society in Wales on the journey to net zero carbon.

 

Ben visits the blast furnaces to talk about the new industrial revolution being promised by renewable energy, and takes a look across the Irish Sea to discuss opportunities for the steel industry as part of the South Wales Industrial Cluster and the Celtic Freeport.

 

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Episode 22: 10,000 days to reach net zero!

In this episode we talk to Professor Jon Gibbins, Centre Director of the UK CCS Research Community Network Plus at Sheffield University about the potential for Carbon Capture and Storage as a solution to the net zero challenge for energy intensive industries such as steel, and the UK’s potential role as a demonstrator economy rather than a country that simply adopts the latest technology that others can’t follow.

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Link to Sky News YouTube video, as mentioned in the episode: https://youtu.be/8Xq9krqt9XU

Episode 21: A SEISMIC change for construction

The SEISMIC demonstrator building at the Building Research Establishment in Watford has been described as the Henry Ford moment for the construction industry. Not only is it bringing standardisation and collaboration to modern methods of construction, but designs predicated on clever, modern steel solutions make buildings that are not only quicker and easier to construct, but also sustainable, energy-efficient and re-usable. It feels like there’s a revolution afoot!

 

We talk to Tata Steel’s Alex Small about where it all started and what happens next

Link to Active Classroom, as mentioned in the episode: https://www.specific.eu.com/the-active-classroom/

Episode 20: Building towards net zero (part 2)

We caught up with more of the speakers from the Construction Summit 2023 to talk about some of the wider sustainability issues for the sector such as skills and people. We also get a snapshot of the industry beyond 2030 and speak to two of the keynote speakers Tata Steel’s CCO Anil Jhanji and UK Government’s Fergus Harradence.

Episode 19: Building towards net zero (part 1)

The central themes at the Tata Steel and Constructing Excellence sponsored “Construction Summit 2023” were sustainability and climate change.

 

With the great and the good of the UK construction industry speaking, listening and networking, it was an ideal opportunity to talk to some of the industry’s makers and shakers about the progress being made and the role of materials such as steel in the path to net zero.