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Steel has always met important needs in society, bettering people’s lives. The same is true as the world undergoes essential shifts to meet climate-related goals. Within the clean energy transition, steel has found its way into the most critical technologies. Sustainable steel products are essential to lowering GHG emissions, and underpin the development of green technologies. They enable and support vehicle electrification, energy transmission and renewable-energy infrastructure, among many other important roles.


At U. S. Steel, we are meeting our customers’ continued need to develop lighter and stronger steels, while utilizing lower-emissions technology, by creating the steels of tomorrow with the same tenacity and adaptability that has brought our steel solutions to life for more than 100 years. Our customers trust our highly skilled talent and advanced capabilities to create innovative products and specialty solutions for their ongoing and emerging requirements. 

U. S. Steel has been innovating on behalf of the automotive industry for its entire history. We are continually finding new ways to make steel, providing material aspects and performance that lower automotive manufacturing costs and vehicle weight while improving vehicle performance and safety. And our steel helps automotive manufacturers meet their sustainability goals.

One acknowledgement of our dedication to both innovation and improving automotive steel was receiving the 2023 Steelie Award for Innovation of the Year from the World Steel Association. The award was given for U. S. Steel’s Big River Steel Works’ development of a new lean, single phase steel for automotive applications that is extremely strong, highly formable and durable, while significantly saving cost, and reducing CO₂ emissions by more than 82% compared to integrated steel manufacturing. The hot-rolled process for making the sheets eliminates the need for cold rolling and high-temperature annealing, and the resulting sheets have excellent weldability and crack-resistance. It is also the lowest CO₂-emitting process of any hot-rolled steel. The new steel is a big win for U. S. Steel, for the automotive industry, for vehicle buyers, and for the environment.