Roadmap for Iron and Steel Manufacturing: Revolutionizing U.S. Global Leadership for a Sustainable Industrial Supply Chain
In May 2022, AIST received a multiyear grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce and its National Institute of Standards and Technology to compile a decarbonization roadmap on behalf of the U.S. steel industry. The objective was to identify and prioritize research areas to address the technologies, infrastructure and workforce needs that will decarbonize the iron and steel industry and advance steel manufacturing competitiveness across the steel industry value chain.
As a highly engineered material, steel is a critical industry of the future. In addition to its foundational role for the economic and defensive security of our nation, steel provides solutions for the growth of modern society as the cost-efficient, sustainable material of choice for manufacturing, construction, infrastructure, transportation, power generation, energy transport, aerospace, storage, and many other applications.
The Roadmap for Iron and Steel Manufacturing: Revolutionizing U.S. Global Leadership for a Sustainable Industrial Supply Chain aims to transform the U.S. manufacturing sector by advancing research challenges in the iron and steel sector. The AIST Roadmap outlines the pathways for achieving the U.S. manufacturing vision in the steel industry by identifying the industry’s grand challenges and priorities, and by identifying key milestones and performance targets for collaborative large-industry R&D. It is, and will continue to be, a work in progress with constant evolution and transformation.
AIST would like to thank all of the contributors who donated their time and expertise in preparing this Roadmap.
NIST Figure 2. Iron and Steel Decarbonization Strategies: Impact on carbon emissions reduction and timeline to commercial implementation in the U.S. (respondent data outside the U.S. reflects different results; descriptions of the Decarbonization Technologies are in Appendix B).