HBI and DRI

News items related to hot briquetted iron (HBI) and direct reduced iron (DRI) technologies.

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Midrex Names K.C. Woody as Chief Executive Officer

04 April 2024 - Midrex president K.C. Woody has been promoted to chief executive officer following the retirement of longtime Midrex executive Stephen Montague, the company has announced.

Steel Producer Issues Call for Green Hydrogen

27 March 2024 - Stahl-Holding-Saar (SHS), which owns steel producers Dillinger and Saarstahl, is seeking bids for renewable hydrogen to be used in a planned direct reduction plant at its Dillinger steel mill, according the online publication Hydrogen Insight.

U.S. DRI Projects Receive Federal Support

25 March 2024 - Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., SSAB and Vale will share up to US$1.4 billion in federal funding supporting several proposed decarbonization projects.

Japanese DRI Demonstration Project Selects ENERGIRON Technology

20 March 2024 - Tenova and Danieli will lend their ENERGIRON direct reduction technology to a demonstration project intended to test full hydrogen reduction with low-grade iron ore.

Baosteel Mill Starts Energiron DRI Facility

17 January 2024 - China’s Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron & Steel gas fired up a new Energiron direct reduction plant, said to be the world’s largest reactor currently using hydrogen.

ArcelorMittal Moves French Decarbonization Project Forward

15 January 2024 - ArcelorMittal is advancing early plans for a major decarbonization project at its Dunkirk steel works in France, moving it to the front-end engineering design stage, the company has said.

U. S. Steel Readies DR-Grade Pellet Plant for Production

15 December 2023 - United States Steel Corporation is expecting to produce the first batches of low-silica iron ore pellets at the first of the year, following a US$150 million upgrade at its Keetac facility in Minnesota.

Danieli, Tenova Announce Order for Omanese DRI Plant

05 December 2023 - The Jindal Steel Group’s newly established Vulcan Green Steel has ordered a hydrogen-ready Energiron direct reduction plant from Tenova and Danieli.

POSCO Plans to Go All in on H2 Ironmaking

27 November 2023 - South Korean steel giant POSCO plans to shift entirely to hydrogen-reduced iron production by 2050, reports BusinessKorea.

SSAB Calls Off Development of Hydrogen Reduction Plant

03 November 2023 - SSAB and Finnish energy company Fortum are dropping plans for a hydrogen-reduced sponge iron plant in Raahe, Finland, the steelmaker has said.

Blastr Green Steel Partners With SFE on Pellet Plant in Norway

19 October 2023 - Blastr Green Steel announced it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with power company Sogn og Fjordane Energi (SFE) for the long-term supply of clean electricity to the company’s planned pellet plant in Lutelandet, Norway.

Importing DRI Could Be an Answer to Europe’s Green Hydrogen Needs

18 October 2023 - In the years ahead, six Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia — will likely be able to meet a significant portion of the European steel industry’s coming demand for green hydrogen.