The Cabin on Pinery Line – although “cabin” is a bit more of a rustic word than the cool, steel-focused dwelling that it is – is a sleek, glowing residence, nestled into the woods along the Maitland River. It’s not a commercial or industrial building. You won’t find it on a map. It’s a small home in the town of Auburn, a few minutes drive from Lake Huron’s east coast, a winterized …
Steel is static. The steel industry isn’t. New innovations and improvements in the space are essential, especially with tightening standards and expectations surrounding climate change and embodied carbon content. From utilizing environmentally friendly steelmaking processes to producing more sustainable steel, more is happening in the steel industry than ever before. But how are these change…
Back in the fall of 2022, Natasha Larock caught the Pickleball bug. “I first tried it a couple of years ago, and I was immediately hooked,” she says. “She’s totally obsessed,” husband Gordon laughs. Like many, Natasha was attracted to the nature of the sport: a hybrid of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong whose popularity is sweeping across North America. Using a wi…
Sixteen-year-old David Sinclair doesn’t mince words when he talks about the old ice rink in Prescott, Ontario. “It sucked,” he says. The ice was too small, the changing rooms could barely fit a full bantam hockey team, and, oh yeah, an ammonia leak in the refrigeration lines suddenly and permanently closed the arena in 2018. That left the local hockey league and Prescott Skating Club scra…
In 2020, the Canadian Steel Producers Association announced a new vision of the future of steelmaking. It was ambitious: to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. To do so would require a reimagining of the entire steelmaking process, from raw material acquisition to the furnaces themselves. Even still, it’s an essential target to hit. The global steel manufacturing industry accounts for 7-…
