perspeXtives: Product Innovation Customer Spotlight | February 27, 2025

Heavyweights No More: Lightweighting SUVs and Trucks with U. S. Steel

For Americans, less is not always more—especially when it comes to vehicles. In 2024, more than 80 percent of new car sales in the United States were for SUVs and trucks. That represents a significant rise from 2010 when they made up just half of new vehicle purchases. This shift reflects a deep-seated preference for size, power, and capability. But there’s a catch. While Americans love...

YEAR: 2024 perspeXtives: Product Innovation Customer Spotlight Policy | November 26, 2024

U. S. Steel CEO Dave Burritt Discusses the Nippon Steel Transaction

CLICK HERE to watch the full interview!  From Mon Valley Works’ Irvin Plant, U. S. Steel CEO Dave Burritt discusses how a transaction with Nippon Steel will help secure the future of U. S. Steel and strengthen American steelmaking and supply chains. Nippon Steel has committed to investing ~$2.7 billion in union-represented facilities, including more than $1 billion in Mon Valley...

YEAR: 2023 perspeXtives: Product Innovation Customer Spotlight Policy | August 03, 2023

Culture: It's What's for Breakfast

It is a simple expression of a complex idea that is indispensable to the success of not only any corporate strategy, but also of any corporation itself. It is a mandate that springs from the clear understanding that when people are connected, energized, and moving together with purpose, there are no limits to where they can go and what they can achieve. 

Influential thinker, author, and educator Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” It is a simple expression of a complex idea that is indispensable to the success of not only any corporate strategy, but also of any corporation itself. It is a mandate that springs from the clear understanding that when people are connected, energized, and moving together with...

YEAR: 2023 perspeXtives: Product Innovation Customer Spotlight | March 06, 2023

Market Conditions, Value Over Volume and Sustainability

I was honored to participate in a Fireside Chat at the Tampa Steel Conference presented by Steel Market Update and CRU Group. Michael Cowden, senior editor at Steel Market Update, was the moderator. Together we covered a wide range of topics about today’s steel, and how it's more relevant than ever. We talked about how U. S. Steel is evolving as a brand, and how we produce steel that’s lighter,...

YEAR: 2022 perspeXtives: Customer Spotlight | March 28, 2022

Food Security That Comes in a Can

Every year, farmers grow far more produce than the public could possibly consume fresh from the field.In 2018, for example, U.S. farmers harvested more than 14 million tons of tomatoes, but only about 980,000 tons were sold fresh. The rest went to processors, who canned them whole or turned them into sauce, juice, paste, puree and a wide range of other products.The canning process that...

YEAR: 2022 perspeXtives: Customer Spotlight | February 28, 2022

Steel Packaging — A ‘Can Do’ All-American Industry

 One of the many lessons of the coronavirus pandemic is that global trade can be fragile, while domestic production provides supply chain continuity as well as American jobs and economic growth.The U.S. can-manufacturing industry is a leading example of this lesson on many levels. As American consumers stocked their pantries in the early days of the pandemic, they reached for canned food...