According to EMSTEEL and UAE-based Masdar, the project is the first of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa, using renewably produced hydrogen certified by Avance Labs, the hydrogen code manager accredited by the International Tracking Standard Foundation, in accordance with the recently released ISO 19870 methodology for hydrogen.

The certification data was validated by Bureau Veritas, acting as the third-party assurance provider.
EMSTEEL group chief executive officer Saeed Ghumran Al Remeithi said the company is committed to advancing decarbonization efforts. 

“Our efforts to-date have been fruitful, with our current utilization of clean energy rising above 80% in 2023. EMSTEEL is also the first steelmaker in the world to capture part of its CO2 emissions, enabling us to operate with 45% less carbon intensity than the global average. Our partnership with Masdar will play a key role in continuing to build on our efforts to decarbonize this hard-to-abate sector and the downstream supply chain.”