Steel Dynamics Earns Global Climate Certification for All Mills, Advancing Low-Carbon Steel Goals

Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ/GS: STLD) today announced each of the company's steel mills achieved Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) product certification. The GSCC provides product certification, validating that these steel products are on the glidepath to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement's 1.5° C scenario.

The GSCC's Steel Climate Standard provides a single, technology neutral framework for product certification allowing steel customers transparency when making lower-carbon emissions steel product purchasing decisions. The Steel Climate Standard is aligned with the International Energy Agency's Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector. The Steel Climate Standard measures key steelmaking greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through hot rolling including Scope 1, Scope 2, and upstream Scope 3 emissions categories. Each of the company's steel mills 2024 GHG emissions intensity data were verified by a third-party, KERAMIDA, and certified by the GSCC.