The Steelie Awards celebrate the accomplishments of World Steel Association (worldsteel) member companies over the past year. Nominations are typically submitted through the relevant membership committees and the worldsteel extranet. Finalists and winners are selected through award-specific processes and assessed by independent expert panels using agreed criteria. The winners and judges for each award are listed below.

Excellence in clean steel production:

  • JSW Steel Limited – A renewable green hydrogen and oxygen ecosystem for clean steel production


Judges:

  • Dr Paul Brooks, Independent Consultant
  • Dr Changlong Wang, ARC ECR Industry Fellow, Monash University
  • Dr Feng Liu, Process Pyrometallurgist, Pyrometallurgy, Hatch
  • Henk Reimink, Consultant, IndEx
  • Peter Golding, Senior Manager, Low-Carbon Solutions, Oil and Gas Climate Initiative
  • Professor Yansong Shen, Director, SCoPE Lab for Green Metals, University of New South Wales
  • Dr Mitren Sukhram, Process Specialist, Iron and Steel, Hatch
  • Professor Aidong Yang, Senior Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford


Excellence in process and product innovation:

  • Nippon Steel Corporation – SuperDyma GB: A Zn-Al-Mg-Si alloy-plated steel sheet with pigmented post-treatment, enabling production without post-painting


Judges:

  • Franz Androsch, Independent Expert
  • Henk Reimink, Consultant, IndEx
  • Professor Aidong Yang, Senior Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
  • Excellence in sustainability:
  • JFE Steel Corporation – JFE Blue Infrastructure Platform: Delivering circular economy, biodiversity recovery and blue carbon through steelmaking by-products
  • Nippon Steel Corporation – Sea forest creation project
  • Judges:
  • Luiz Cláudio Allemand, Lawyer, Independent
  • Dr-Ing Sabina Grund, Associate Director Sustainable Development, International Zinc Association
  • Danhak Gu, Policy Analyst, OECD
  • Hans Regtuit, Sustainability Expert, Independent
  • Professor Runa Sarkar, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
  • Jim Woods, Communications and Sustainability Expert, Independent
  • Sangeeth Selvaraju, Policy Fellow – Sustainable Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

     

Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment:

  • Hyundai Steel Company – Standardisation of LCA methodologies to improve comparability across steel products


Judges:

  • Dr Rajesh Kumar Singh, Senior Director- Consulting India and South East Asia, Sphera
  • Dr Paul Brooks, Independent Consultant
  • Professor Ming Xu, Chair Professor of Carbon Neutrality, Tsinghua University


Excellence in people:

  • Jindal Steel Limited – Dakshata – Engineering safety, one duty position at a time


Judges:

  • Pankaj Bhargava, Managing Partner, Core Creators
  • Professor Iny Hwang, Professor, Accounting, Seoul National University
  • Professor Jingang Nie, Professor, Tangshan Vocational and Technical College of Science and Technology
  • Klaus Seybold, Senior Lecturer, Studiengänge & Transferzentrum Institut Industrial Management, FH JOANNEUM – University of Applied Sciences
  • Maurits Wesseling, Independent Consultant


Excellence in communications programs:

  • Aceros AZA S.A. – Healing domes resignifying weapons into safe spaces for children through material metaphor


Judges:

  • Silvia Antonioli, Founder & Head of Content, Momo Media
  • Andrew Baud, Founder & Chief Executive, TALA
  • Caroline Freestone, Client Lead, Omnicom Production
  • Ian Higginson, Founder, Creative Director, MakeAlias
  • John Stokes, CEO, CentreBlue