The European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries, EUROFER, is committed to advancing sustainable development throughout the European steel industry.

This Eco-Design Package has been developed to promote the environmental credentials of steel and provide down-stream users with environmental performance information. It demonstrates:

• the importance of life cycle considerations during prod-uct development
• the closed loop, material to material recycling of steel
• the availability of steel life cycle inventory data and in-formation on the steel industry's sustainability development

This document follows the key philosophies of Eco-Design as described in ISO 14062 "Environmental Management - Integrating environmental parameters into product design and development".

In this Eco-Design package, life cycle considerations are integrated into the industry's product development and design environment. This provides product-specific environ-mental decision-making support for new and improved designs in early development phases and thereby assists with compliance of legislative requirements.

Discussions on Eco-design should be incorporated into the very early stages of product design to ensure optimum benefit to environmental, technical and economical performance.

European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries

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