Hesham Saad Al-Sherbiny: Technological development between (Selection and compulsion)

The environment has often been seen as a free sphere that everyone can deal with, Governments around the world have imposed regulations and standards by which the environmental sphere is dealt with.

An interesting by-product is evidence that suggests that all companies can significantly reduce their environmental costs when they have incentives to do so.

Environmental costs actually seem to be quite amenable to cost-cutting factors from resorting to new technology such as the costs of invested capital and labor, and perhaps even more so because efforts to reduce environmental costs have been very modest until recently and where that is currently changing.

A particularly interesting case can be shared is the technology of the new rebar industry (infinite rolling) where due to this technology the furnaces needed for reheating ore used in conventional lines and the integration of continuous casting machine units into the units of the drifting lines have been completely dispensed with directly.

One of the direct gains of this development is to avoid emissions resulting from the use of natural gas (30 cubic meters per ton of ore) which is necessary for the reheating of the ore as well as to benefit from the non-cooling of the ore produced from continuous casting machines from temperature (900 degrees) to (air temperature) so that it can be stored and can be transported.

As well as avoiding loss by an average of 2% of the total weight of the ore converted into oxides as a result of the reheating process.

As well as the storage cost of the raw material in addition to reducing the value of the raw material.

The capital necessary for the construction and units of reheating furnaces and the necessary infrastructure for them and the connection of the necessary facilities for their operation (electricity and natural gas).

Although the actual production began using technology (infinite rolling) almost 10 years ago with the development of the energy source needed for operation recently.

Where it was possible to feed it one of the units that implemented this technology with a renewable energy source.

However, no timetable has yet been established linked to a financing system as an investment incentive to preserve the environment and a duty to develop and modernize all the traditional technological rolling lines that were established at the beginning of the eighties of the last century, and whose total annual production is more than three million tons of rebar at the national level only.

It is worth mentioning that these units (infinite rolling) need to be added units (infinite smelting) where production is carried out on the basis of smelting scrap (recycling) to become 100% green and sustainable technology.

The lack of a vision for sustainable technological transformation can be acceptable and justified to coexist with what is traditional and inherited.

But what results from the use of these legacies of traditional technology of negative effects .

On society, environment and living organisms It is considered unacceptable and unjustified to live with it as long as there is a necessary alternative for development and the necessary support is provided to it.

Finally, the establishment of the General Authority for Sustainable Development .

It has become a national duty necessary to manage the technological transformation from traditional to sustainable .

It is imperative for us to achieve it within the framework of social responsibility, especially towards future generations.