It's good for the auto industry, good for consumers and good for our planet to see increasing awareness throughout the automotive supply chain, where a true accounting of vehicles' impact on the environment includes the total life cycle, including materials.
For too long, the regulator-driven focus on fuel economy has encouraged an "out of sight, out of mind" dismissal of major environmental costs that must be factored into any serious discussion on sustainability.
In the steel industry, the demands from our automotive customers for stronger steels and lighter components have driven historic innovations in advanced high-strength and ultra-high-strength automotive steels, including ongoing development and commercialization of stronger and more formable third-generation advanced high-strength steels.