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The New Bronco: Built Ford Tough. With ArcelorMittal Steel.

14 October 2020 - When ArcelorMittal announced last month that it would divest most of its U.S. assets, it promised it would remain no less a player in the automotive steel market. A new announcement from the company seems to bear that out.

ArcelorMittal Pledges to Achieve Carbon Neutrality

02 October 2020 - ArcelorMittal has announced a significant environmental goal: it intends to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

California Researchers Win Funding for H2 Steelmaking Project

02 October 2020 - The University of California, Irvine, (UCI) and partners have been award US$5.7 million in funding from the U.S. Energy Department to study the integration of renewably produced hydrogen in the steelmaking process.

Renewed Funding Gives Australian R&D Consortium Another Five Years

22 July 2020 - A university-led, Australian steel research group has secured AU$28.4 million in new funding, allowing it to operate for another five years.

Another Steel Producer Eyeing Hydrogen-Based Steel Production

03 June 2020 - Spanish long products maker CELSA Group will work with renewable energy supplier Statkraft to build a hydrogen electrolysis plant.

Researchers Make Super-Strong Steel That's Also Tough

14 May 2020 - Researchers at the University of Hong Kong and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a way to raise the strength-to-toughness ratio in ultrahigh-strength steels, a development that has applications in structural materials.

Ovako Successfully Heats Steel in Hydrogen-Fueled Furnace

28 April 2020 - Sweden-based engineering steel producer Ovako has successfully trialed the use of hydrogen as combustion source in a production furnace, marking an industry first, the company reports.

Researchers Devise Way to Print Better Martensitic Steel Parts

20 April 2020 - Researchers from Texas A&M University and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory have developed an optimized process framework that allows for defect-free 3D printing of components from martensitic steels.

Slag Is a Useful Byproduct. These Researchers Think It Has Even More Potential.

08 April 2020 - Researchers at Australia’s RMIT University said they might have found a way to improve the utility of slag as a concrete aggregate, research that could strengthen steel’s role in the circular economy.

ABB to Supply Fossil-Free Steel Project With Automation Suite

06 February 2020 - ABB has been chosen to provide the electrical and automation system for SSAB’s hydrogen-based DRI plant in Luleå, Sweden.

Startup Lands Contract to Create Steel Tracking Blockchain

21 January 2020 - A Toronto, Ont., Canada-based startup has been awarded a Canadian government contract to develop a prototype blockchain for tracking steel through the supply chain.

Researchers Take Big Step in Solving Hydrogen Embrittlement

13 January 2020 - In what they say is a first, researchers at The University of Sydney in Australia have made direct observation of hydrogen at dislocations and grain boundaries in steel, offering important new information on the vexing problem of hydrogen embrittlement.

POSCO Developing Precision Location Tag

02 January 2020 - A POSCO research and development subsidiary is partnering with two tech firms to develop a location-tracking tag to be used in its plants.

Russian Scientists Declare Success in New Steel Trial

27 November 2019 - A research team at Russia’s National University of Science and Technology (NUST MISIS) has developed a new corrosion-resistant steel grade designed for oil pipelines.

SSAB to Begin Process Route Shift

14 November 2019 - SSAB plans to replace two of its Swedish blast furnaces with an electric arc furnace and intends to be the first to bring a fossil-fuel-free steel to the market, company officials announced during the annual Swedish Steel Prize event this week in Stockholm.

thyssenkrupp Testing Hydrogen Injection in Blast Furnaces

14 November 2019 - Looking to significantly reduce its carbon dioxide emissions, German steel producer thyssenkrupp has launched what it says is a series of first-of-a-kind tests into the use of hydrogen in a blast furnace.

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.