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Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Energy use and conservation, the environment and sustainability as it relates to the steel industry.
Latest News
Paul Wurth, Partners Prepare to Start Tests on CO2 Reduction Technology
29 April 2021 - SMS group’s Paul Wurth unit, in cooperation with Saarstahl and Dillinger, is preparing to start a pilot-scale plant that will covert coke oven gas into a reducing agent injected into a blast furnace.
U. S. Steel Unveils New Emissions Target: Net Zero by 2050
21 April 2021 - United States Steel Corporation is raising its climate goals, aiming for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the company announced Wednesday.
Recycled Zinc Alloy Clears Product Trials
21 April 2021 - Mill byproducts recycler American Zinc Recycling (AZR) has successfully trialed a zinc alloy suitable for use in continuous galvanizing lines, the company reports.
SSAB, Volvo Partner on Developing Vehicles Made From Green Steel
08 April 2021 - SSAB will work with Volvo Group under a newly signed collaboration agreement to develop and build vehicles made from fossil-free steel, the steelmaker said on Thursday.
ArcelorMittal Plans Two DRI-EAF Plants in Germany
29 March 2021 - ArcelorMittal said Monday that will build two sets of direct reduction and electric arc furnace plants in Germany, an investment that is expected to cost between EUR1 billion and EUR1.5 billion.
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.
U. S. Steel Announces Green Product Line
24 March 2021 - United States Steel Corporation on Wednesday unveiled a new line of sustainable steels it is calling verdeX.
Nucor Inks Green Electricity Deal
24 March 2021 - Nucor Corp. has signed a virtual power purchase agreement with a Texas wind farm operator, locking up 100 megawatts’ worth of green energy credits.
Air Liquide, ArcelorMittal Collaborating on CO2 Reduction Project
19 March 2021 - ArcelorMittal and Air Liquide are teaming up to reduce carbon emissions at the steelmaker’s Dunkirk operation in France.
Hydrogen Takes Center Stage in New Collaboration Agreements
18 March 2021 - POSCO and Australian electricity and natural gas producer Origin Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding on an effort to bring green hydrogen to South Korea, reports the The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.
ArcelorMittal Rolls Out Green Steel Program
17 March 2021 - ArcelorMittal Europe is launching a certification program that allows the steelmaker to share its carbon reductions with its customers, enabling them to report cuts in their own emissions.
Green Steel Will Require Clean Gas. One Distributor Is Aiming to Help Fill that Need.
10 March 2021 - Industrial gas supplier Linde has launched a new line of atmospheric gases that are produced with renewable energy.
Salzgitter Earns Low-Carbon Certification
01 March 2021 - Steelmaker Salzgitter said certain of its hot-rolled and galvanized strip grades have received low-CO2 certification under German testing, inspection and certification specialist TÜV SÜD’s VERIsteel standard.
Investment Firm Unveils Plans for Green Steel Mill in Sweden
24 February 2021 - A Swedish venture is lining up capital funding for a fossil-free, 5-million-metric-tons-per-year steel plant to be built in the country’s Norrbotten region, it announced on Tuesday.
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.
ArcelorMittal Starts Coke Oven Gas Injections in Spanish Blast Furnace
18 February 2021 - ArcelorMittal Asturias has modified a blast furnace the B blast furnace at its Gijón, Spain, plant, equipping it to consume hydrogen-rich coke oven gas.
Consortium to Research Metals Decarbonization Tech
17 February 2021 - A Finnish consortium that includes metals producers has launched a research effort intended to develop decarbonization technologies for the industry.
Primetals Technologies Receives Final OK on New Gas Cleaning System
09 February 2021 - China’s Changzhou Eastran Special Steel Co. Ltd. has issued the final acceptance certificate on a newly installed gas cleaning system that serves its two basic oxygen converters.
thyssenkrupp Sees Successful Hydrogen Test on Blast Furnace
04 February 2021 - thyssenkrupp has successfully completed an initial round of hydrogen injection testing on one of its blast furnaces in Duisburg, Germany, and is preparing for a second phase of experimentation.
ArcelorMittal Signs MOU for Biogas Project
29 January 2021 - ArcelorMittal will partner with a company that specializes in pyrolysis to build a biogas production plant in Europe, the steelmaker announced Friday.
