Members area English 中文 About us Our stories Media centre Steel by topic Publications Home About us Steelie Awards Innovation of the year Steelie Award 2017 - Ohjoon KWON, CEO, POSCO, collects the award from Kosei SHINDO, Representative Director & President, NSSMC The Steelie Awards recognise member companies or individuals for their contribution to the steel industry over a one-year period in a series of categories impacting the steel industry. The Steelies are awarded at worldsteel’s annual conference in October. The first Steelie Awards Ceremony took place in 2010 at worldsteel-44 in Tokyo. The 8th Steelie Awards Ceremony will take place in Brussels in October 2017. More details are available here. The selection process for nominations varies between awards. In most cases nominations are requested via the appropriate membership committee and the worldsteel extranet. Entries are then judged by selected expert panels using agreed performance criteria. Journalist of the year and communicator of the year are selected by direct vote. Categories and voting process: Category 1: Steel industry website of the year This award recognises the membership website that demonstrates communications excellence based on 5 key criteria: overall design, loading and page delivery, information range and relevance, navigation ease, and use of new technologies. The selection is made through review of all membership sites by a worldsteel expert panel. External communications experts provide an ultimate judgement on the selection. Category 2: Innovation of the year This award recognises the most innovative nomination for technical improvement or environment mitigation. Nominations are sought through the worldsteel technology committee and judged by the technology committee steering committee. Category 3: Excellence in sustainability The excellence in sustainability award recognizes a member company or a national or regional association for a specific sustainability initiative that has made a positive impact, or provided benefits in all three areas of sustainability – including economic, environmental and social performance. Additional criteria include the level of community/stakeholder communication & outreach related to the initiative. Nominations are called for through the Sustainability Reporting Expert Group and judged by a panel of internal and external judges. Category 4: Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment This award recognises member companies that have played a key role in establishing and guiding the work of worldsteel in LCA, demonstrated their commitment to the ethical and pro-active use of LCA, or shaped the debate in the public and policy-making arenas. Member nominations in the form of a detailed questionnaire are called for by worldsteel. The nominations are judged by a number of international LCA experts, external to worldsteel, to ensure fair competition and raise the awareness of this award outside of the global steel industry. Category 5: Excellence in education and training This award recognises member companies for their contributions to worldsteel's education and training programme and leadership in enhancing the skills of the steel workforce for today and tomorrow. Member nominations are called for by the worldsteel education and training committee and followed by an evaluation based on a points system. Category 6: Journalist of the year This award recognises the journalist from any media outlet who has written regularly in the most informative and educative way on any aspect of the steel industry. Nominees are culled from the worldsteel media cuttings management system and voted on by members of the worldsteel communications committee. Category 7: Industry communicator of the year This award recognises the individual who the media has chosen as having done the most in this year publicly to present the best face of the steel industry to the world at large. Nominations culled from the worldsteel media cuttings management system. The search specifically seeks industry spokespeople who have addressed global strategic issues and does not include company financial reporting. Nominees and winners 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Enquiries Nicholas Walters Director, Communications and Public Policy +32 2 708 8184 Send email Brussels office Avenue de Tervueren 270 - 1150 Brussels - Belgium T: +32 2 702 89 00 - F: +32 2 702 88 99 - E: steel@worldsteel.org Beijing office C413 Office Building - Beijing Lufthansa Center - 50 Liangmaqiao Road Chaoyang District - Beijing 100125 - China T: +86 10 6464 6733 - F: +86 10 6468 0728 - E: china@worldsteel.org steeluniversity.org | worldautosteel.org | constructsteel.org | worldstainless.org worldsteel news Sign up to receive our e-newsletter. You can easily unsubscribe at any time. Sign up © 2018 worldsteel