Episodes
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Episode 8: Build me up buttercup
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Recorded live at Grand Designs Live, ExCel London 2022!
We talk to Phil Bagnall, Managing Director of Matrix Structures about their new partnership with Tata steel brand Catnic about the benefits of offsite modular construction for domestic properties, not just in cost and speed of build but also for the environment, too.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Episode 7: It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
We talk with Dr Chris Williams, Head of Industrial Decarbonisation for Industry Wales about how businesses in different sectors are coming together with government and academia to create geographical clusters for capturing and distributing energy and industrial gases.
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Episode 6: The will and the way
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
We catch up with Director General of Trade Association UK Steel, Gareth Stace, to talk about the challenges of ensuring favourable policies on topics such as energy and industrial strategy, and how decarbonising energy-intensive industries relies on having a supportive political framework.
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Episode 5: School of thought
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Host Tim Rutter is joined by Dr Sumitesh Das, Director of Research & Development for Tata Steel UK, and Professor Dave Worsley, Head of Materials Science and Engineering at Swansea University to talk about how industry and academia can work hand-in-hand to solve some of society’s most pressing issues such as decarbonisation. “It is the very act of something not being possible that drives R&D”, says Sumitesh.
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Episode 4: You pays your money and you takes your choice
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Tata Steel UK’s Manager of Process Technology, Richie Hart, guides listeners through the various technology choices available to the world’s steel industry, and the relative benefits and drawbacks of each.
He also talks about the choices governments have to make about industrial supply chains, the dangers of offshoring carbon responsibility and the cost impact on consumers of a ‘polluter pays’ principle.
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Episode 3: Push-me-pull-you
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Tata Steel UK’s Marketing Director Russell Codling joins host, Tim Rutter, to explain that it’s not just pressure being brought to bear by legislators and environmentalists that is driving decarbonisation in the steel industry, but customers too. And Russell reveals another fascinating stakeholder that may be the most powerful of the lot!
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Episode 2: Part of the problem or part of the solution?
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Today's guest is Tata Steel UK’s Manager, Process Optimisation (Energy & Environment), Paul Wheeler, who explains how steel is essential in the modern world, how carbon is an essential element in current steelmaking technologies, and the huge changes already made to reduce the material’s environmental footprint throughout the supply chain.
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Episode 1: Don’t mention the C word
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
In the latest series of Steelcast, Tata Steel’s host Tim Rutter talks to a variety of experts about climate change, sustainability and decarbonisation in the steel industry.
In this first episode his guest is Tata Steel UK’s Head of Climate Change Policy & Strategy, Pete Quinn, who goes back to the basics and asks ‘Just what is so bad about Carbon?’
Friday Oct 30, 2020
As ready as we can be
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Tata Steel’s Director for Strategic Business Development, Deirdre Fox, recalls the incredible amount of work that has taken place across Tata Steel Europe, with customers, suppliers, peers and governments in preparation for the separation of the UK and EU on 1 January 2021.
While there is a ground-rush of preparations to oversee in the next 60 days, we discover that the journey is far from over as so many aspects of business life still remain to be settled.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Rolling with the punches
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Chief Technical Officer for Tata Steel Europe, Ernst Hoogenes, reflects on the many challenges steelworkers have faced and overcome since the start of the pandemic, and talks of his confidence in the steel family to adapt again and make the very best of any upturn that the steel markets might provide in the coming quarters.