Green Carbon Steel™
Decarbonizing the Steel Supply Chain
As industries move toward sustainability, demand for low-carbon materials keeps rising. Green Carbon Steel™ is American Katerra’s name for that shift in steel: structural steel with significantly reduced CO2 across the entire supply chain, with the goal of decarbonizing it end to end. It is the idea that sits behind our low-carbon Green Steel product.
What Is Green Carbon Steel™?
Green Carbon Steel™ is a collective name for steel materials, and their product families, with significantly reduced CO₂ emissions across the entire supply chain. Our goal is to decarbonize that supply chain, step by step, toward fully decarbonized steel.
Green Carbon Steel™ is a trademark created by American Katerra, LLC, and is currently undergoing registration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In Japan, the identical trademark is registered by Yamaguchi Heavy Industries Ltd.
The principles behind it
Lower-carbon transition
Helping existing fabrication plants adopt greener methods, such as recycled content and electric arc furnace (EAF) production, without a complete infrastructure overhaul.
Circularity
Favoring closed-loop approaches that reuse industrial by-products.
Toward net zero
Working toward net zero steel: reduce emissions first, then balance what remains over time.
From concept to product: Green Steel
Green Carbon Steel™ is the concept; Green Steel is how you buy it. Our Green Steel product is low-carbon structural steel, fabricated to the same standards as the rest of our work, with documentation for specifiers.
Measured and disclosed
Claims need numbers. Green Steel packages come with embodied-carbon documentation, grounded in life cycle assessment, so specifiers can report what they buy.
Green Carbon Steel™ FAQs
Is Green Carbon Steel™ a product?
No. Green Carbon Steel™ is the concept behind our work on lower-carbon steel. The product you can specify and buy is Green Steel, fabricated to the same standards as the rest of our structural steel.
How is Green Carbon Steel™ different from green steel?
Green steel is the industry’s general term for steel made with lower CO2 emissions. Green Carbon Steel™ is American Katerra’s named approach: a collective name for the materials, methods, and documentation we use to move our supply chain toward decarbonized steel.
What is the goal of Green Carbon Steel™?
A decarbonized steel supply chain. We reduce CO2 step by step across sourcing, fabrication, and logistics, with net zero steel as the long-term direction.
Inquiries About Green Carbon Steel™
Have questions about Green Carbon Steel™, or want it on your project? Start with our Green Steel product, or talk to our team about specifications and embodied-carbon documentation.