Submitted by Alex Taylor on Thu, 22/01/2026 - 3:19pm
This Section of the NZMRM Website provides background articles as published by Scope and elsewhere and links to relevant other websites
Submitted by Alistair Fleming on Fri, 16/01/2026 - 8:55am
Project
14 Richmond Club Christchurch - A working man’s club dating back to the 1880s gets a new, bold and contemporary home.
18 ‘Red Barn’, Mangawhai - An architect creates a simple, off-grid getaway for himself and his partner....
Submitted by Alex Taylor on Mon, 22/12/2025 - 2:44pm
Sweden is at the forefront of using green hydrogen for steel production, aiming to decarbonize a traditionally carbon-intensive industry.
Several companies and projects are actively developing and implementing hydrogen-based steelmaking processes, with the goal of significantly reducing...
Submitted by Alex Taylor on Mon, 22/12/2025 - 2:34pm
By: Richard Orange for the Telegraph
It's December and less than 100 miles from the Arctic circle. But while Svartön ("black island") – the heavily industrialised peninsular around HYBRIT, Sweden's pilot fossil-free steel plant – is already dusted by a thin ...
Submitted by Alex Taylor on Mon, 22/12/2025 - 2:29pm
Even in rain-rich New Zealand we are increasingly talking about control of water, water rationing, depletion of aquifers, and so on. At the same time we are increasingly suffering from downpours (mostly uncaptured) and flooding, as shown in the Hawkes Bay catastrophe of 2023.
Submitted by Alex Taylor on Mon, 22/12/2025 - 2:17pm
As sustainability becomes more of an issue around the world, attention has been focused not only on how a product is made but also how raw materials are collected and how the product is distributed.
Transporting materials to a factory and then shipping out the finished product are...
Submitted by Alex Taylor on Mon, 22/12/2025 - 2:02pm
Recent initiatives by New Zealand Steel and by Pacific Coil Coaters, our primary suppliers of metallic coated and painted steel, will improve the sustainability of their operations.
Submitted by Alex Taylor on Fri, 19/12/2025 - 4:31pm
NZMRM has been involved in discussions about solar water heating panels before and has contributed to the MBIE G12/AS2 and “Solar Water Heaters - Guidance for suppliers, installers and building consent authorities”.
While we have seen seen some disillusion with solar water heating, and...
Submitted by Alex Taylor on Fri, 19/12/2025 - 3:57pm
NZ Steel's Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Embodied Energy analysis
Submitted by Alex Taylor on Fri, 19/12/2025 - 3:55pm
Dream or possibility?
In New Zealand the Robinson Research Institute, at Victoria University of Wellington, in collaboration with NZ Steel, is working on development of a pilot plant to produce steel using hydrogen as reductant.
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