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THE GREEN STEEL CHALLENGE PODCAST

A trailblazing podcast, created by The Willy Korf Foundation and Kallanish Commodities, to invite conversation, ignite innovation and accelerate change in the steel industry. 

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ABOUT THE PODCAST

The Green Steel Challenge

BROWSE EPISODES

THE GREEN STEEL CHALLENGE

LIVE EPISODES

We welcome Nicole Voigt, Managing Director and Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Nicole is a member of the leadership team of the Materials & Process Industries practice area and is global lead for metals.

In this episode we welcome George Adams, CEO and President of SA recycling. With more than 140 locations, SA has the largest network of scrap metal facilities in the United States and is one, if not the world’s largest recyclers.

We talk to Alan Dunsmore, CEO of Severfield Ltd, one of the largest steel fabricators in Europe, about what The Green Steel Challenge means to him and his market.

The team speak to Tadeu Carneiro, CEO at Boston Metal. Boston Metal, based in Woburn, Massachusetts in the US and Minas Gerais in Brazil. Boston Metal is unlocking a future of sustainable metals and green steel production.

We welcome Andrea Fuder, Executive Vice President of Volvo Group Trucks Purchasing & Chief Purchasing Officer for Volvo Group.

Season 2 launches with Greg Murphy, General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Business Services & Sustainability at Nucor.

Coming Soon

The Journey So Far

10/01/2024

Maria Persson Gulda, Chief Technology Officer, Stegra

28/01/2025

John Mellowes, CEO & Co-Founder, Biocarbon

11/02/2025

LIVE EPISODES

Relive the highlights, discover key insights and hear firsthand what we have learned and experienced. Plus get a sneak peak into the hot issues that will ignite debate in the upcoming season.

Episode 14 features Thomas Hansmann, CTO of SMS Group, one of the major equipment suppliers to the global steel and metals industry.

The world’s largest steel company outside of China, we speak with Irina Gorbounova VP M&A and Head of the ArcelorMittal XCarb Innovation Fund.

We hear from Gunnar Groebler, CEO of Salzgitter Group. The Salzgitter Flachstahl integrated site is the European leader in converting from coal based blast furnace production to renewable powered EAF production based on H2 fuelled DRI as a raw material.

In Episode 11 Mario Arvedi Caldonazzo, CEO of Italian based Arvedi Group talks about how about his group is unique within Europe in already being established as an EAF based flat products producer, like the mini mills of North America.

In this episode Dr Anne-Marie Grossmann presents a clear and honest appraisal of what is happening in Germany which then has huge relevance to Europe and subsequently to other regions of the world.

In Episode 9, we welcome Simon Farry, Head of Steel Decarbonisation at Rio Tinto. This is our first dedicated episode featuring an upstream miner and it offers a captivating view on the role of iron ore mining in the Green Steel Challenge.

World Steel Dynamics has recently produced one of the first comprehensive reports on the likely pathways to decarbonizing for the steel industry and in this episode John describes and comments on the findings of the report.

In episode 7, James, Mike and Astrid discuss and recap the first six episodes of The Green Steel Challenge Podcast.

André Bier Gerdau Johannpeter is the Vice Chaiman of the Board of Directors and former CEO of Gerdau, the largest steel producer in South America as well as a major special steel producer in North America.

In this episode we hear from Giacomo Mareschi Danieli, the CEO of Italy-based Danieli group, a key equipment supplier to the global steel industry as well as a steel producer.

We hear from Sajjan Jindal, the Chairman & Managing Director of JSW Steel, one of the largest steel producers within what is now the most dynamic and exciting steel market in the world.

Hybar is a new venture that aims to become the most cost-efficient and most environmentally sustainable rebar producer in North America. In 2023, Hybar raised $700 million to build a scrap metal recycling steel rebar mill.

In the second episode, Astrid, Mike and James interview Stephen Montague, the CEO of Midrex Technologies, a globally renowned, US-based steel plant designer and developer specialised in Direct Reduction Iron (DRI) processes.

In this first episode of the Green Steel Challenge Podcast, Astrid Korf-Wolman, alongside co-hosts Dr Mike Walsh and James Moss, warmly welcome Edwin Basson and Åsa Ekdahl from World Steel Association.

MEET THE PRODUCER

Astrid Korf-Wolman

Chair, The Willy Korf Foundation 

MEET THE HOSTS

host

James Moss

strategy consultant & partner at First River Consulting.

host

Dr Mike Walsh

Independent Consultant

AND MEET OUR GUEST SPEAKERS

THE STEEL INDUSTRY EXPERTS