“The collaboration with ABB is a crucial part of our scaling up and future growth as we commence commercial production,” said Ulrika Molander, GreenIron chief operating officer. “ABB’s system will enable us to make informed decisions, stabilize operations at every stage, and analyze data for our continued journey. It’s an exciting time for us.”

GreenIron has developed a hydrogen-based reduction technology that can work with a variety of raw materials, from residual products such as landfill and residues as well as virgin ore.

ABB will provide its Ability System 800xA distributed control system to the plant, enabling the scale-up of GreenIron’s operations. The automation platform will manage the entire industrial process, with the capabilities to integrate control, safety and power management into one system, ABB said. 

“Together with GreenIron we’re working on fulfilling sustainability objectives that are demanded by the metals industry and wider society,” said Martin Björnmalm, local business line manager for Metals, ABB Process Industries Sweden. “This is the type of project that underlines our actions in helping industries to outrun leaner and cleaner, and also aligns with an innovative process developed by our customer over many years.”