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Taking a long-term view is the only way to avoid unintended consequences
<a href=/en/brands/automotive/hilumin>HILUMIN®for cylindrical battery cell casings in electric vehicles.</a>
<a href=/en/brands/automotive/hi-lite>Hi-Lite:a thin non-oriented electrical steel for efficient and high-performance electric motors.</a>
<a href=/en/brands/automotive/hyperform>Hyperform®: extra formability for lightweight AHSS design.Tackling weight, costs and performance si</a>
<a href=/en/brands/automotive/magizinc-auto>MagiZinc®Auto: advanced hot-dip galvanisedcoating for inner parts and outer panels.</a>
<a href=/en/brands/automotive/plt>Prime Lubrication Treatment:advanced surface treatment for smooth processing of automotive panels.</a>
<a href=/en/brands/automotive/serica-flo>SericaFLO®:a premium surface finish for a market-leading paint appearance.</a>
<a href=/en/brands/automotive/xpf>XPF® for easy lightweighting and improved energy absorption in complex structural vehicle parts.</a>
<a href=/en/brands/automotive>Brands in the Automotive product portfolio</a>
<a href=/en/brands/engineering/magizinc>MagiZinc®is an innovative replacement for conventional galvanised steels. It provides superior corr...</a>
<a href=/en/brands/engineering/valast>Valast®is an efficient, reliable, wear-resistant steel plate that tackles heavy wear and tear while...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/engineering/direct-rolled/high-strength-steel>Ymagine® direct-rolled steel comes in five high-strength, low-alloy (HSLA) grades offering either w...</a>
<a href=/en/brands/engineering/ympress>Ympress®is a hot-rolled, high-strength, low-alloy steel with outstanding formability and consistent...</a>
<a href=/en/brands/engineering/ympress-laser>Tailor-made for efficient, high-speed laser cutting, this homogeneous, hot-rolled steel combines exc...</a>
<a href=/en/brands/engineering/ymvit>Tata Steel’s Ymvit® cold-rolled steel for enamelling delivers end product and process benefits in...</a>
<a href=/en/brands/engineering>Discover our engineering brands for various applications in the heavy vehicles sector, solar constru...</a>
<a href=/en/brands/green-steel-solutions>Together towards a zero-carbon emissions, circular world.</a>
<a href=/en/brands/packaging/protact>Protactlaminated steel is food-safe and optimised for efficient, sustainable canmaking with opportun...</a>
<a href=/en/brands/packaging/tcct>Asustainable, reliable replacement for conventional tin-free packaging steel (ECCS) developed by Tat...</a>
<a href=/en/brands/packaging>We make steel for packaging. Our specialist steels are designed for food and drinks cans, aerosols, ...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/automotive/cold-rolled>Tata Steel offers a comprehensive range of cold-rolled batch-annealed products. This means we can ta...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/automotive/hot-rolled>Hot-rolled steel offers performance, versatility and value. Our hot-rolled strip steel range include...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/automotive/metallic-coated>Tata Steel offers a wide choice of metallic coated steel for inner and outer panels. Our product ran...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/automotive/electro-plated-steel>Tata Steel is a committed partner within the automotive industry. Combining ourmaterials, design eng...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/automotive>Explore our extensive range of automotive steel products designed to reduce your total cost of owner...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/construction>Used globally, supplied locally, our innovative construction products have inspired pioneering susta...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/engineering/hot-rolled>Hot-rolled steel offers performance, versatility and value.</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/engineering/direct-rolled>Tata Steel's Ymagine®direct-rolled steel: a viable alternative to cold-rolled and hot-rolled steel....</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/engineering/cold-rolled>Tata Steel offers a comprehensive range of cold-rolled steel comprising batch annealed products. Thi...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/engineering/metallic-coated>Tata Steel offers a wide choice of metallic coated steel.</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/engineering>Working together with the world’s leading equipment makers, steel processors and domestic applianc...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/packaging>As one of Europe’s leading suppliers of high quality packaging steels, we work closely with our bu...</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/plating/electro-plated>At Tata Steel Plating we work closely with our customers to find cost-effective solutions to technic</a>
<a href=/en/product-ranges/tubes/structural-tubes>Cold formed welded steel structural hollow sections supplied to EN10219.Produced with precision and ...</a>
<a href=/en/coil-data-on-demand>Make better decisions and reduce lead times with direct access to coil data. You can now empower you...</a>
<a href=/en/automotive/aurora-online>High quality data and expert advice to make your simulations easier to set up and more accurate.
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<a href=/en/our-businesses/plating>Tata Steel's integrated business Plating is the world's leading expert in electroplating for technic...</a>
<a href=/en/our-businesses/steel-service-centre-feijen>Our service centre in Maastricht (Feijen) is part of our highly specialised distribution service for...</a>
<a href=/en/our-businesses/steel-service-centre-multisteel>MultiSteel offers one of the broadest multi-metal ranges in Europe, including HRP, CRC, HDG, DSP and...</a>
<a href=/en/our-businesses/steel-service-centre-unitol>Our Unitol steel service centre in Corbeil-Essonnes, France, offers one of the broadest ranges of st...</a>
<a href=/en/our-businesses/steel-service-centre-gelsenkirchen>Our Gelsenkirchen plant, producing slit coils and cut-to-size sheets, include slitters and blanking ...</a>
<a href=/en/our-businesses/steel-service-centre-layde>Layde steel slu is located in the north of Spain, the Basque Country.For the transformation of coils...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/automotive/applications/energy-storage>Enabling the transition to electrified vehicles by providing solutions for cylindrical battery casin</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/automotive/applications/seating>Steel design for automotive seats</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/automotive/applications/body-in-white>Supporting you from concept to series production. Increased energy absorption in BIW parts, reducing...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/automotive/applications/chassis-and-suspension>Helping you strike the balance in chassis design.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/automotive/applications/outer-panels>SericaFLO for excellent paint appearance on outer panels with appealing designs that are enabled by ...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/automotive/applications>Tata Steel offers a wide, multi-product portfolio of strip, tubes and forging steels, including a sm...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/automotive>Working with you on sustainable vehicles and value chains</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/applications/transportation>Our steels are used in trucks, trailers, trains and ships. Our expertise is in finding the right sol</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/case-studies/bergerecotrail>Using Ympress® S700MC to manufacture BERGERecotrail® semi-trailer bodies and welded-frames for the...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/case-studies/frank-original-boron-manganese>Expansion of boron manganese steel offering for agricultural machinery in partnership with Frank Wal...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/case-studies/hyster-yale>Opportunities for Hyster Yale to deliver lower total cost of ownership to its customers.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/case-studies/jcb-landpower>EnablingJCB to develop an optimally-designed next-generation tractor.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/case-studies/kuhn-gyrotedders>KUHN co-developed a newhollow section specification:Hybox TT.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/case-studies/linssen-yachts>S235 steel products create ultra-smooth hulls for Linssen Yachts.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/case-studies/palfinger>Crane maker Palfinger benefits from a unique partnership.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/case-studies>We can make a real difference to your performance by understanding your business and delivering stee...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/applications>Construction equipment applications, consumer products and more.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/applications>Construction equipment applications, consumer products and more.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/applications>Construction equipment applications, consumer products and more.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/applications>Construction equipment applications, consumer products and more.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/applications>Construction equipment applications, consumer products and more.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/engineering/applications>Construction equipment applications, consumer products and more.</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/packaging/applications>Our packaging steel products are designedfor a diverse range ofapplications from aerosols to food ca...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/packaging/case-studies/bonduelle>Two thirds of Dutch consumers didn'tknow that a can is endlessly recyclable according to consumer re...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/packaging/case-studies/snert>Joris Bijdendijk is a renowned Dutch chef at the Michelin-starred RIJKS restaurant, located next to ...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/packaging/case-studies/calvo-vuelca-facil>Consumers, from older users to children can sometimes find traditional tuna cans difficult to use du...</a>
<a href=/en/expertise/packaging/case-studies>We can make a real difference to your performance by understanding your business and delivering stee...</a>
As one of the world’s leading steel producers, we are dedicated to both managing our operations responsibly and to continuous improvement. We are driving our class leading low CO2 steel making with an ambition to be a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2050. Today, through embracing innovation and new technologies, we are producing products that enable our customers to become more sustainable, whether that is lighter steel products or products that are guaranteed to be more durable, thereby extending their life cycle. A key enabler of more sustainable and circular economic products is the ability to capture data associated with the product during the whole of its lifecycle.
When we understand the provenance and history of our products, we can use this information to extend the useful life of that product. This can be an extension of the current use of the product, or reusing the product for a different purpose. All of which help to reduce the use of resources which are required to make the product ‘from scratch’. To accomplish this, we need to gather all kinds of data. We need the ability to manage and build data which contains information about:
This historical data could be termed a ‘material birth certificate’. However if we are to extend the useful life of a product we also need to understand what it has experienced in its lifetime (telling us about its condition). We might term this the ‘material passport’ which will explain the impact of the environment on the material/product itself (during its use).
With current available technologies it is possible for in-use data to be captured by sensors, a sensor for ultraviolet degradation on the external face of a façade panel for example. Such data also gives us valuable insights into the performance of products and how we can improve them.
Such data could also deliver other forms of value generation and lead to new circular economic business models. Utilising such ‘in-use’ data to drive more efficient and cost effective maintenance regimes for construction products, can help to ensure that we are maximising the value of those products at the end of their design life – if they are in good condition, well maintained, they will be worth more and much less likely to go to landfill. There is however a natural tension for a product manufacturer to strategically aim for creating less demand in the future (ie enable reuse of its products). Therefore the ability of manufacturers to embrace circular economic principals and technology enablers, to create value streams for their products whilst they are in-use, will help to deliver sustainability in every sense.
As we speak, at Tata Steel, we are creating a number of digital platforms for our products. This will deliver products which are marked and, when scanned, lead you directly to a database with the historical data, or “birth certificate” of that material. Through working with the supply chain we can create a chain of data which captures the ‘in use’ variables which are consistently being added to during different stages of the life cycle. This will enhance the value of these materials/products making disposal much less likely and circular economic use much more likely.
Whilst steel is already one of the most circular economic materials in the world (almost all steel is recycled) the vision and work described above aims to create a model in which the whole construction sector is interlinked, and thereby can be efficient, safe and sustainable.
This is a significant challenge and there are a lot of steps to take. The first step is to make people aware of our ambition so that they can expand our engagement to accelerate our ambition to be ‘sustainable in every sense’.
Taking a long-term view is the only way to avoid unintended consequences