Energy, Environment & Sustainability
News items focusing on evolving technologies and steps taken to create a sustainable industry and minimize environmental impact.
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Russian Researchers Start Up Novel Iron Recovery Furnace
26 December 2018 - A Russian technical university and an industry partner have fired up a pilot-scale furnace designed to recover iron and other metals from industrial and municipal solid wastes.
Salzgitter Sets Partnership to Produce Green Hydrogen
01 November 2018 - Salzgitter has signed a cooperation agreement with two other businesses to build a wind-powered hydrogen electrolysis plant.
Project Aims to Improve Energy Recovery at Cogen Plant
08 August 2018 - A Polish cogeneration plant is installing a pair of energy recovery turbines in between blast furnace flues and the cogen plant itself, essentially putting the exhaust gases to work twice.
Nucor Lays Bet on New Electroplating Process
27 July 2018 - Nucor Corp. is investing in a start-up company developing a chrome-plating process that substitutes toxic hexavalent chromium for a trivalent chromium, its safer form.
ArcelorMittal Begins Work on Waste Gas Conversion Plant
11 June 2018 - ArcelorMittal and a Chicago-based company that has developed technology to transform industrial waste gases into ethanol have broken ground on a plant at the steelmaker’s facility in Ghent, Belgium.
voestalpine Marks the Start of Work on Hydrogen Plant
23 April 2018 - voestalpine has launched construction of a pilot-scale hydrogen electrolysis plant, a project that it hopes will pave the way for a carbon-free steelmaking.
JFE Steel Chooses Supplier for New Gas Scrubber
27 February 2018 - Japan’s JFE Steel has placed an order with Primetals Technologies for a dry-gas scrubber to serve a new sintering plant at its Fukuyama works.
SSAB Converts Mill Furnace to LNG
28 November 2017 - SSAB will begin burning liquefied natural gas (LNG) instead of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the walking beam furnace at its Raahe strip mill, the company said.
EUROFER: Material Life Cycle Costs Should Be a Part of Vehicle Emissions Standards
05 September 2017 - The European Steel Association (EUROFER) is calling on EU officials to account for the life cycle carbon costs of materials in drafting new rules for vehicle emissions.
Construction of NLMK Oxide Recovery Plant Underway
30 August 2017 - Russia’s NLMK Group has begun construction of a RUB2.8 billion (US$47.8 million) waste oxide briquetting plant at its Lipetsk facility, the company said Wednesday.
Primetals Technologies Forms Alliance with Filter Plant Manufacturer
30 June 2017 - Primetals Technologies and Austria’s Kappa Filter Systems have struck up a partnership to develop and sell de-dusting systems for iron and steel plants, the companies have announced.
A Researcher's Dirty Idea Wins Tata Group Recognition
06 June 2017 - A U.K. researcher has been recognized by the Tata Group for her work on developing a corrosion-resistant steel coating that is derived from soil bacteria.
Indian Steelmaker Begins Offering Slag Sand
07 May 2017 - India’s Essar Steel has developed a slag-derived sand that could help satisfy demand for fine aggregates in construction, reports The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency.
Plans for Giant Steel Plant Put on Hold
18 April 2017 - Vietnam’s prime minister has stopped Hoa Sen Group’s massive $10.6 billion integrated steel plant to allow more time to study its feasibility and environmental impacts, reports Vietnam’s VnExpress newspaper.
Russian Steelmakers Invest More than US$200 Million in Environmental Initiatives
13 April 2017 - Russia’s NLMK Group increased spending on environmental projects and controls by 12% in 2016, the steelmaker reported.
Tata Steel Looks To Grow European Tailored Blanks Business
20 March 2017 - As competition from low-cost steel imports erodes demand for domestic auto steel in Europe, Tata Steel is trying to carve out a larger niche for its tailored blanks business, notes Automotive News.
ArcelorMittal Upgrades Long Products Mill in Southeastern Europe
13 March 2017 - ArcelorMittal Zenica, the steelmaker’s long products facility in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has inaugurated two projects designed to reduce its environmental footprint and a third that will allow it to begin producing coiled rebar.
Harsco Looks to Offer New Recycling Technologies Through Partnership
13 March 2017 - Mill contractor Harsco Corp. plans to introduce the mills it services to new wastewater and recycling technologies through a partnership with a U.K. firm specializing in water treatment.
Swedish Government Allocates Funding to Carbon-Free Steelmaking Research
27 February 2017 - The Swedish Energy Agency has agreed to contribute an additional SEK56 million toward a four-year research initiative that will explore hydrogen’s potential as a carbon-free steelmaking input.
A New Use for Slag? Dutch Researchers Think They Might Have One.
05 December 2016 - Researchers at a Dutch university are undertaking a four-year research project that will explore whether it’s possible, or even feasible, to use slag as an alternative to cement.
