A Northwest Indiana-based steel researcher landed a nationally competitive grant for his work on reducing carbon emissions at steel mills.

The Association for Iron & Steel Technology Foundation picked Orlando Ugarte of Purdue University Northwest as the winner of its 2025–2026 Sustainable Technologies for Steel Manufacturing Grant. The Pennsylvania-based trade association awarded $30,000 to support Ugarte's research on sustainability.

Located near the integrated steel mills along the lakeshore that account for half the nation's iron production and two-thirds of its blast furnaces, Purdue University Northwest's Hammond campus is a hub of steel industry research. Both the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation and the national Steel Manufacturing Simulation & Visualizat

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