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HBI and DRI
News items related to hot briquetted iron (HBI) and direct reduced iron (DRI) technologies.
Latest News
voestalpine Patents DR Process
15 June 2021 - voestalpine has received a European patent for sponge iron production process that uses green hydrogen and biogas, the company has announced.
Cliffs Cuts the Ribbon on HBI Plant
10 June 2021 - Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. on Wednesday celebrated the first six months of its new direct reduction plant in Ohio.
Construction Underway on Salzgitter DRI Plant
18 May 2021 - Salzgitter has broken ground on a demonstration-scale direct reduction plant that can operate with either natural gas or hydrogen, or both.
Kobe Steel Looks to Cut Carbon Emissions
13 May 2021 - Kobe Steel Ltd. has become the latest steelmaker to publicly announce an emissions reduction goal, saying it will look to reduce CO2 output by 30% to 40% by 2030 from 2013 levels, reports the Reuters news service.
Algerian Greenfield Mill Starts Up DRI Unit
15 April 2021 - Algerian Qatari Steel (AQS) has started up a new 2.5-million-metric-ton direct reduction (DR) plant at its greenfield mill in Algeria, capping a project that is more than seven years in the making.
SSAB Selects Site for Planned DRI Plant
25 March 2021 - SSAB and its partners in its HYBRIT initiative have chosen a site in northern Sweden to build a fossil-free, direct reduced iron plant, the company has announced.
Primetals, Midrex Ink Deal for 2M-Metric-Ton HBI Plant
01 March 2021 - Consortium partners Midrex Technologies and Primetals Technologies have won a contract to build what they say will be the world’s largest hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant in Russia’s Kursk region.
New Partnership to Explore Potential for Canadian HBI Plant
18 February 2021 - A new industry collaboration announced this week will explore the feasibility of building a hot-briquetted iron plant in Canada .
Using Existing Tech, Kobe Steel Makes Big Carbon Reductions in BF Trial
18 February 2021 - Kobe Steel Ltd. was able to significantly lower carbon dioxide emissions from a blast furnace by packing it with hot-briquetted iron and managing furnace operations with AI tools, the company has reported.
DRI Plant Sets New Performance Record
25 January 2021 - A Midrex Technologies direct reduction plant in Algeria has set a new production record, making more than 2.23 million tons of direct reduced iron (DRI) last year.
Danieli: HBIS Direct Reduction Plant Will Be in a Green Class of Its Own
10 December 2020 - China’s Hebei Iron & Steel Group’s (HBIS) planned direct reduction plant, when completed in 2021, will be the lowest carbon-emitting direct reduced iron (DRI) plant in the world, according to one of its technology partners.
HBIS to Build H2-Based DRI Plant
25 November 2020 - China’s HBIS Group has contracted Tenova to build a hydrogen-based direct reduction plant, the company has said.
SSAB Celebrates Start of H2-Based Sponge Iron Plant
02 September 2020 - SSAB and partners LKAB and Vattenfall on Monday started up a pilot-scale sponge iron plant that will use hydrogen from a renewably powered electrolyzer.
OMK Plans DRI Plant, Meltshop
02 September 2020 - Russian steelmaker OMK is investing the equivalent of US$2 billion in a new direct reduction plant and associated electric arc furnace-based meltshop, reports commodities news and pricing service S&P Global Platts.
Energy Department Funds Steel Decarbonization Research
20 August 2020 - Two leading steel researchers have been awarded a US$4 million U.S. Energy Department grant to further explore hydrogen-based steel production.
Fortescue Agreement Builds on Renewable Hydrogen Investment
20 August 2020 - Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group and two other organizations have agreed to work together on further developing hydrogen technology.
Ohio HBI Plant to Begin Producing by Year’s End
06 August 2020 - After being forced to take a pandemic-related time-out on its hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. has resumed construction and aims to have 400 contractors on-site by mid-month, the company has said.
Midrex, Kobe Steel Agree to Metallics Collaboration
13 July 2020 - Kobe Steel and its Midrex Technologies subsidiary have agreed to work with two other companies on providing green iron metallics and ironmaking solutions to the global steel industry.
World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Pilot Facility Launched in Austria
13 November 2019 - voestalpine has started up its pilot-scale electrolysis plant and is producing hydrogen derived from renewable sources of electricity. According to voestalpine, the new plant has a capacity of over 6 MW. It uses renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and will be able to test whether the technology deployed is suitable for use on an industrial scale.
EAFs May Dominate in the U.S., But They Can’t Yet Replace BFs, Says Iron Ore Executive
23 October 2019 - Fears that U.S. blast furnaces face imminent extinction are “totally unrealistic,” the top executive at iron ore miner Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. said Wednesday.
