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Iron and steel production is an energy-intensive process, often associated with high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There is a drive to reduce GHG emissions in energy-intensive industries. However, the existing technologies used for reducing CO2 emission have reached a plateau. The emergence of novel technologies such as carbon capture, utilisation and storage systems are proposed as a new strategy for the steelmaking industry to adopt more proactive, sustainable improvements which aim to advance current equipment with progressive production efficiency, component lifetime and reduced environmental impact. In order to realise aforementioned targets, capability of materials to tolerate the corrosive, erosive, reactive and high temperature process gases is essential to develop new coating materials. The EU-funded FORGE project plans to develop novel and cost-effective coatings of compositionally complex alloys, combining machine learning models, thermodynamic calculations, and high-throughput experiments. FORGE will demonstrate these coatings on processes such as CO2-capture, waste heat recovery, components in kilns and undergoing wear, and show the efficacy in defying the acting degradation forces, and assuring coating effectiveness with smart monitoring of their deterioration. FORGE aims to minimise the overall capital and operative expenses in steelmaking industry.