Environmentálne technológie v hutníctve železa a ocele/Environmental Technologies in the Iron and Steel Industry

Metallurgy, including the iron and steelmaking segments has extremely important roles in the world economy, and this creates a higher business profile for the Slovak Republic. The integral part of all business and human activities should be the ultimate protection of the environment, and this environmental protection should be independent of all society’s production and social activities. This paper identifies the current and intended environmental activities and the goals of the European Union, industry and research and development sectors, and it focuses especially on metallurgical and environmental interaction. Our aim is to bring the current status and trends of iron and steel metallurgy to the closer attention of the scientific community, and therefore we examine these trends in relationship to iron and steel metallurgy and the environmental protective aspects in technology and innovation