ECO-INNOVATION IN MANUFACTURING PLANTS ILLUSTRATED WITH AN EXAMPLE OF STEEL PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT

The article focuses on an important, from the economic point of view, topic of manufacturing plants’ innovation. It presents the effects of re-design and development of products of selected steelworks. The importance of environment friendly changes in the development of manufacturing products is also stressed in the article. The eco-innovation in connection with metallurgical products means technical, organizational and marketing changes. All innovations are orientated on eliminating or/and reducing the product’s negative environmental impact.