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16. Outlook
16. OUTLOOK
In terms of product development, eco-design and sustainability issues, there are numerous and varied
approaches that are being developed by EUROFER’s member companies and at a national or
European level. It is therefore important to try to ensure that as much consistency is achieved as
possible. A benefit of this IPP project will be to assist in such schemes by providing the necessary
steel and/or LCI data and the corresponding methodology relating to the life cycle of steel products.
This will ensure both the non-duplication of work and resources as well as producing a more
consistent, harmonised approach to IPP and LCA related issues.
16.1. Use of Eco-design packages
The Eco-design packages have been developed for use by the EUROFER members. It is intended
that the format and design of these packages can be utilised for company specific and product
specific applications, as desired by each company. The packages can then be used by all interested
parties throughout the product lifecycle, be they steel manufacturers, product designers and
manufacturers, the consumer or the end-of-life recycler.
16.2. Co-product methodology
As a follow-up to this project, it is recommended that the following areas are investigated:
16.3. MFA
♦ A critical review of the methodology as detailed in Section 11.7 and incorporation of any
appropriate recommendations.
♦ Discussions with the users of the steel industry co-products, such as cement
manufacturers.
♦ Implementation of the co-product methodology within the new IISI data which is currently
being collected.
♦ Potential development of a methodology to incorporate the secondary steelmaking
process route, namely the Electric Arc Furnace.
♦ Potential development of a methodology to incorporate the stainless steel making
process which is performed in the Electric Arc Furnace route.
♦ Future discussions with IISI and other steel industry organisations for the inclusion of the
EUROFER co-product methodology within other datasets.
♦ Potential inclusion of the European steel industry LCI data incorporating the co-product
methodology, with LCI data providers, software developers and the European
Commissions ELCD.
In order to improve the MFA model that has been developed, it is necessary to continue to collect
more data that can be used to provide a more detailed analysis. Incorporating more countries than
the 15 that have been used within this study will provide a more accurate overview of the flow of steel
82 The European Steel Industry’s Contribution to an Integrated Product Policy – Final Report