U.S. Steel has been certified to sell products manufactured at its Big River mill in Osceola as ResponsibleSteel Certified Steel.
ResponsibleSteel is the industry’s leading global multi-stakeholder standards body, enabling certification at the site level and, now, for the first time, steel certification. The company announced the certification in a press release, stating that U.S. Steel is the first company ever to achieve the designation.
“This is an extraordinary accomplishment,” said U. S. Steel President and CEO David B. Burritt. “The rigorous requirements needed for ResponsibleSteel Certified Steel represent a new gold standard for responsible steel manufacturing on a global scale. This certification gives customers and stakeholders confidence that Big River is on the path to near zero and demonstrates that we are using responsible practices across our supply chain. Being the first steel company in the world to achieve ResponsibleSteel Certified Steel demonstrates our strong resolve to build a more sustainable steel industry in the United States and across the world.”
The ResponsibleSteel International Production Standard incorporates environmental, social and governance requirements across its 13 principles, which include more than 500 criteria for the responsible sourcing and production of steel. Certified Steel requires both Site Certification and additional conformance with two key components: progress on the responsible sourcing of input materials and site-level decarbonization, and ResponsibleSteel Certified Steel provides steel buyers with a consistent assessment of the site’s material sourcing and decarbonization progress, according to the release.
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