Today's Technological Steel
Steel has been a part of our lives for more than 150 years. The steel industry has invested over $50 billion in the latest technologies to make steel more innovative, lower in cost to you and stronger than ever.
An example of technologies effect on steel's high strength: If the Sears Tower in Chicago (one of the world's tallest buildings) were erected today, 35 percent less steel would be needed than when it went up in 1974.
Steel is in the cars we drive, the houses in which we live, the trains we ride, the cans we open, the appliances that make our lives easier and much more. Steel is durable and the most recycled material on earth.
Steel is the material for the 21st century. Contemporary steel mills are a far cry from the fiery, sooty ones of the past. Today, glowing blocks of steel glide down aisles of rollers, their progress silently monitored by electronic sensors.
Did you know that more than 125,000 men and women (many of them with two and four year college degrees in engineering, metallurgy and computer science) are currently employed in U.S. steel and Canadian steel plants?
As a result of the re-engineered workplace and the skilled work force, the steel industry has been revitalized.
The industry has committed itself to reaching the highest levels of productivity and quality in the world, all while greatly improving its environmental performance.
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The Industry Has Met Its Challenge:
• It has created new products. Half of all the types of steel made today did not exist 15 years ago.
• It has harnessed the potential of new technology to upgrade and streamline the steel-making process from start to finish.
• It has reinvented itself, taking back market share from overseas competitors and producing and exporting steel at record rates.
• It has made sure that steel is the ideal environmental material. All steel is recyclable. And steel mills have drastically reduced emissions.
• It has ensured that steel is an economical choice for consumers. It has, in short, transformed itself into the "new steel" industry.
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