Under the agreement signed in Beijing, research teams from Tata Steel, Tata Steel Research and Innovation Limited, and USTB will collaborate across four key areas of low-carbon steel production. These include scrap-based steelmaking, recycling of steel waste, improvement of final product performance, and carbon capture and utilization technologies.
Academia–industry collaboration
The partnership aims to accelerate innovation and support cleaner, more sustainable steel production by combining USTB’s academic expertise with Tata Steel’s industrial capabilities. In this context, new technologies will be tested using the university’s experimental and pilot-scale facilities, with plans to carry out pilot applications and scale them up for industrial use.
Strengthening a long-term partnership
USTB Vice President Shuqiang Jiao stated that the long-standing cooperation between the two institutions will be further strengthened through this new initiative. He noted that the collaboration will enable the development of new ideas contributing to sustainability goals and deliver more efficient, low-emission solutions for the steel industry.
The statement also emphasized that combining USTB’s expertise in metallurgy and materials science with Tata Steel’s industrial strength is expected to accelerate the engineering validation of research outcomes and their transfer into industrial applications.
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