South Korea: Steel company Posco Group has partnered with seven South Korean cement and ready-mix concrete producers and five construction firms, along with the Korea Concrete Institute and the Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology, to develop novel concretes from slag. The Korea Herald newspaper has reported that Posco Group will supply its slag for the development process.

The project aligns with Posco Group’s ‘super-gap’ future market-orientated innovation strategy.