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Metals Sustainability Viewpoints

Hear from industry experts on how improving efficiencies throughout your metals business can strengthen the business’ bottom line and improve sustainability.

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How to drive supply chain sustainability

Uncover the three main principles driving sustainability throughout the supply chain and explore the technologies that are helping the steel industry to decarbonise.

How to balance productivity and sustainability

Learn how choosing the right product can help reduce energy consumption, carbon footprint and carbon intensity and enhance the reliability of your equipment.

How to future-proof operations

Discover the key steps the metals industry can take to improve operational efficiency and run more sustainably to future-proof business operations.

How to gain efficiencies with effective lubrication

Learn about the important role lubricants play in driving operational efficiencies within metals production.

How to drive supply chain sustainability

How can the steel industry operate sustainably throughout the supply chain? In this video, Clare Broadbent

, Head of Sustainability at World Steel Association, shares the three main principles driving sustainability throughout the supply chain and explores the technologies that are helping the steel industry to decarbonise.

Metals Industry Viewpoint with Clare Broadbent, World Steel Association

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Title: Metals Industry Viewpoint with Clare Broadbent, World Steel Association

Duration: 1:19 minutes

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An industry expert Q&A video with Clare Broadbent, Head of Sustainaility at the World Steel Association, discussing what the steel sector can do to operate sustainably throughout the supply chain.

Metals Industry Viewpoint with Clare Broadbent, World Steel Association

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Metals Industry Viewpoint with Clare Broadbent, World Steel Association

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How can the steel industry operate sustainably throughout the supply chain?

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Clare Broadbent

Head of Sustainability at World Steel Association

Clare Broadbent

So, within the steel industry our focus on sustainability

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throughout the supply chain is based on probably three main principles.

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Clare Broadbent

Firstly, taking a full lifecycle approach

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Full lifecycle approach

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from raw material extraction all the way through to the consumer

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And to the end of life and to recycling.

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Clare Broadbent

The second one would be probably on circular economy

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Circular economy

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making sure we design products which can be easily reused, dismantled

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Clare Broadbent

and then finally recycled.

And the third thing I would say is

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yes, sure we need to consider all the aspects related to climate change and what we need to do as an industry. But there are many other topics out there that we need to

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make sure we don’t forget about, such as water, health and safety, bio-diversity

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Water, health and safety, bio-diversity

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and the rights of employees. And local human rights.

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How is the steel industry using new technologies to decarbonise?

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Portfolio of solutions

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There's a portfolio of solutions that the industry can use to decarbonise.

This includes carbon capture and usage, carbon capture and storage,

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the use of hydrogen,

the use of biomass,

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the use of renewable energies

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and the use of alternative electricity sources.

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Find out more about Shell Lubricant Solutions and Sustainability

Visit Shell.com/LubricantSolutionsSustainability

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How to balance productivity and sustainability

Are operational efficiency and sustainability mutually exclusive? In this video, Greg Morris

, Shell Technical Expert and Metals Sector Grease Product Application Specialist (Americas), shares how choosing the right product can help reduce energy consumption, carbon footprint and carbon intensity and enhance reliability.

Metals Industry Viewpoint Greg Morris, Metals Sector Grease Product Application Specialist at Shell

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Title: Metals Industry Viewpoint Greg Morris, Metals Sector Grease Product Application Specialist (Americas) at Shell

Duration: 1:06 minutes

Description: 

An industry expert Q&A video with Greg Morris, Metals Sector Grease Product Application Specialist (Americas) at Shell, discussing how the metals sector can improve its operational efficiency whilst becoming more sustainable.

Metals Industry Viewpoint with Greg Morris, Metals Sector Grease Product Application Specialist (Americas) at Shell

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Metals Industry Viewpoint with Greg Morris, Metals Sector Grease Product Application Specialist (Americas) at Shell

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How can the metals sector improve operational efficiency and work to become more sustainable?

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Front facing camera on speaker, Greg Morris

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Greg Morris

Metals Sector Grease Product Application Specialist (Americas) at Shell

Operational efficiency and sustainability are actually tied together.

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Product selection has a huge impact

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on both sides of the operational efficiency ratio.

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So choosing the correct product

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will reduce consumption

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and carbon footprint, carbon intensity, it enhances reliability. And it also reduces the overall lubricant consumed

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per tonne produced. On the flip side

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using high quality products

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and energy efficient products reduces overall cost

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and energy consumption which also reduces carbon intensity.

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How can innovation in greases help the sector improve its productivity?

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Innovations in grease have allowed us to increase grease life

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enhance reliability and component protection

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 whilst simultaneously

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reduce power consumption and reducing the cost side of the business.

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Find out more about Shell Lubricant Solutions and Sustainability

Visit Shell.com/LubricantSolutionsSustainability

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How to future-proof operations

Industry expert Paul Robinson

, Director of CRU Group Commodities Business Intelligence company, shares key steps the metals industry can take to improve operational efficiency and run more sustainably to future-proof business operations.

Metals Industry View, with Paul Robinson, Director of CRU Group

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Title: Metals Industry Viewpoint, with Paul Robinson, CRU Group Commodities Business Intelligence company

Duration: 0:50 minutes

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An industry expert Q&A video with Paul Robinson, CRU Group Commodities Business Intelligence company, highlighting how the metals industry can look to improve operational efficiency and work to become more sustainable.

Metals Industry Viewpoint with Paul Robinson, CRU Group Commodities Business Intelligence company

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How can the metals sector improve operational efficiency and work to become more sustainable?

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Paul Robinson

Director of CRU Group

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An important step for the sector to future-proof its operations

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is to really look at its local environmental footprint.

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So, managing and reducing

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reducing waste

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more effectively

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Water usage

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looking at water usage throughout operations

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and of course getting

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Local communities

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closer to the local communities

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How can the metal industry become more sustainable?

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Improve transparency and new technology

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The sector must improve its transparency in operations and decision-making. Whilst also investing in new technology.

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Such as renewable energy

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or hydrogen fuels

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to reduce overall emissions.

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Find out more about Shell Lubricant Solutions and Sustainability

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How to gain efficiencies with effective lubrication

In this video Jason Cao, Shell Technical Expert and Metals Sector Lubricants Product Application Specialist (Asia-Pacific), shares insights on the important role lubricants play in driving operational efficiencies within metals production.

Metals Industry Viewpoint with Jason Cao, Metals Lubricants Product Application Specialist APAC

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Title: Metals Industry Viewpoint with Jason Cao, Metals Sector Lubricants Product Application Specialist (Asia-Pacific) at Shell

Duration: 1:35 minutes

Description: 

An industry expert Q&A video with Jason Cao, Metals Sector Lubricants Product Application Specialist (Asia-Pacific) at Shell, discussing the importance of lubricants in the metal sector and how to improve operational efficiency whilst becoming more sustainable

Metals Industry Viewpoint with Jason Cao, Metals Sector Lubricants Product Application Specialist (Asia-Pacific) at Shell

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Metals Industry Viewpoint with Jason Cao, Metals Sector Lubricants Product Application Specialist (Asia-Pacific) at Shell

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Why are lubricants so important in the metals sector?

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Metals Sector Lubricants Product Application Specialist (Asia-Pacific) at Shell

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Lubricants play a very important role in equipment

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and the metals industry is a heavy user of key equipment such as hydraulic systems, MORGOIL® oil systems and the compressor systems.

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They all need high-quality lubricants to meet the tough demands

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to meet the tough demands of metal production.

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Companies that use the right lubricants and

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work with right partner, like Shell, can reduce
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energy consumption, prevent equipment wear and extend equipment life.

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How can the metals sector improve operational efficiency and work to become more sustainable?

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If metal producers want to create the ideal economic benefits, they must focus on reducing their costs and increasing efficiency

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With a circular economy in mind, the sector needs to establish ecological and green enterprises.
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This can be achieved sustainably in several ways by using their resources more efficiently to minimise energy consumption.

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By using alternative resources such as iron ore and other natural

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mineral resources

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as well as renewable materials such as the scrap steel in the steel mill dust.
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By switching from non-renewable energy to new energy sources

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such as hydrogen and solar.

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