Steel Sustainability Featured at Green Day Event in Detroit

AISI recently participated in a half-day conference titled "Embracing a Green Michigan—Carbon Culture at the Crossroads," which was held at Wayne State University in Detroit on April 22 to coincide with the commemoration of Earth Day. The event brought together business leaders to take a hard look at Michigan's role in environmental leadership during the next few years.

Steel Recycling Institute (SRI) President Bill Heenan delivered the introductory remarks, which called attention to steel's infinite recycling possibilities and the industry's focus on sustainability. Ron Krupitzer, AISI's vice president of automotive applications, participated in a panel discussion in collaboration with the University Research Corridor.

The Green Day event concentrated on work that is being done in Michigan to develop new technologies and new thinking about the environment. It included discussion on:

• Public policies needed at the federal, state and local government levels to create a bioeconomy;
• How environmental concerns will change the products we use every day;
• The challenges of changing public behavior and habits to support new energy and environmental technologies;
• Infrastructure changes that will be needed to support environmentally friendly vehicles; and
• The role of climate change on the Great Lakes and the implications for Michigan and the country at large.

As materials competition heats up over the issue of sustainability in the automotive marketplace, AISI and the SRI are actively promoting the safe and sustainable benefits of steel in automobile design.

To listen to Heenan's opening address on WWJ-Radio, visit:

http://www.wwj.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=1938238

For more information, contact Deanna Lorincz.