Indiana’s Lieutenant Governor Becky Skillman announced the approval of a $50,000 Innovations grant to Highland's Multiserv Corp., Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation.
The grant, administered through the Indiana Recycling and Energy Development Board will be used to test and determine how steel slag from Indiana's steel mills can be reused.
"Currently there is 400,000 tons of steel slag in Lake County," Skillman said. "We need to find ways to recycle it. We hope that, through the collaborative efforts of Purdue, Multiserv and INDOT, we might turn this waste into new materials."
The money will be used as a matching grant. It will be used to study ways to develop end markets for steel slag generated at electric arc furnaces, as well as basic oxygen furnaces. Multiserv operates at the mills in Lake County.
The study will determine if the by-product can be used as a soil stabilizer or for other highway construction applications.
The Innovation Grants are designed to help Indiana businesses research, develop, and implement projects that promote the use of secondary recycled materials.
Lt. Governor Skillman oversees Indiana’s energy policy and efforts.
Multiserv is a division of Harsco. The company is involved in a host of mill services operations throughout the world.
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