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After the Second World War, countries in Europe saw the need to work together to rebuild Europe. One of the outcomes of this process was the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) that was founded in 1951. The purpose of this ECSC was to govern the mining of coal and the manufacturing of iron and steel jointly for six countries: Germany and France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg and Italy. The ECS had a number of institutions and policies in place by which they could do this. Essentially, the process from coal and iron ore mining to iron and steel making is a supply chain. In the case, we look at this supranational governance mechanism as a way to control the coal and steel supply chain in Europe. In 1965, the various institutions of the ECSC were merged with two other European Communities into the European Communities. The ECSC itself was finally disbanded in 2002, while the financial means of the ECSC are still available today for financing innovations in steelmaking.