Indiana eyes slag recycling.

Indiana's Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman Rebecca "Becky" Skillman is the 50th and current Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana. She is the first female elected to hold this office and is a member of the Republican Party. She was sworn in on January 10, 2005. has announced the approval of a $50,000 Innovations Grant to Highland's Multiserv Corp., Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Indiana charged with maintaining and regulating transportation and transportation related infrastructure such as state owned airports, state highways and state owned canals or railroads, (INDOT INDOT 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 says. "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 matching grant Academia Non-peer-reviewed funding in which a commercial enterprise, foundation, or philanthropy, federal government, contributes a sum of money that 'matches' a financial contribution made by an institution, university or hospital. and will fund a study into ways to develop end markets for steel slag that is 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 slag can be used as a soil stabilizer stabilizer: see airplane. or for highway construction applications.

The Innovation Grants are designed to help Indiana businesses research, develop and implement projects that promote the use of recycled materials.

Skillman oversees Indiana's energy policy and efforts.

Multiserv is a division of Harsco. The company is involved in mill services operations throughout the world.

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Date:	Apr 1, 2005
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