ISSF announces winners of the Stainless Industry Awards in a webinar

Brussels, 19 May 2020 – the International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) has announced the winners of their Awards in the New Technology, New Development, Safety and Sustainability categories during a webinar which replaced the traditional ceremony. Due to the global pandemic, the winners have not received their plaques personally, but they will be sent to them.

Best New Technology Award

In this Award category, the Jury was looking to recognize original concepts that make significant contributions in either the production methods for stainless steel or for the application of stainless steels in service.


Best New Development Award
In this category the jury is looking for highly original concepts that promote bespoke stainless grades, have significant global market potential, and offer strong environmental improvements in terms of preservation of scarce resources and/or reduction of GHGs and/or reduction in lifetime maintenance costs.

Gold Award

POSCO, for the stainless steel airtight container

Silver Award

Australian Stainless Steel Development Association, for the Murray Irrigation PIIOP Round 3 project

Bronze Awards

POSCO, for the stainless steel wave water tank

Aperam, for the stainless steel anemometric tower for measuring wind speeds

Safety Awards
For awarding companies in the safety section, the jury looked for practical innovations to reduce the number of safety incidents in the workplace, develop transferrable countermeasures to avoid specific types and develop workers' skills to directly reduce the number of safety incidents.

Gold Award

Outokumpu, for the “Hands are not tools” project

Silver Award

Aperam, for the “Think outside of your Chair” project

Bronze Awards

Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corporation, for the introduction of safety passages and blind spot cameras in their outdoor loading area

JFE Steel Corporation, for the use of safety training facilities

Sustainability Awards
In this final category, the jury was looking for new developments that delivered one or more of the following improvements: a clear reduction in operational emissions (GHGs), a clear reduction in production energy intensity, an improvement in material efficiency, an investment in new processes and/or products that have a positive environmental impact, the development or enhancement of the company environmental management system.

Gold Award

North American Stainless, for the Development of ceramics

Silver Award

Outokumpu, for the Recycled household plastics to improve slabs storage
Bronze Award

Acerinox, for the Emission reduction improving office lightning by applying new technologies



ISSF congratulates all Awards Winners and hopes the winning and other case studies will inspire others. All case studies have been published in two brochures, one on New Applications and one on Safety and Sustainability.

The video announcing the winners has been uploaded onto YouTube.