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Energy use and conservation, the environment and sustainability as it relates to the steel industry.

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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. 

Cleveland-Cliffs Commits to 25% Reduction in Carbon Emissions

28 January 2021 - Iron ore miner and steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is targeting a 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and will explore a potential carbon capture project at its Burns Harbor plant. 

Tenaris Coating Booth Improvements Lead to Major Reduction in VOC Emissions

19 January 2021 - Tenaris’ seamless tube mill in Bay City, Texas, says it has eliminated 98% of the volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from the facility’s coating booth. 

French Plate Mill Receives Support for Furnace Modernization

18 January 2021 - Dillinger Group subsidiary Dillinger France has received a grant from the French government that will help it reduce CO2 emissions. 

Blue Hydrogen Has a Role to Play in Decarbonization, thyssenkrupp Says 

14 January 2021 - Natural gas can be a viable intermediate source of clean hydrogen for thyssenkrupp Steel Europe's Duisburg mill in Germany, but the German and European Union governments need to put a regulatory framework in place before any investments along those lines can be made, the steelmaker has concluded. 

Tenaris Lays Plans for Italian Hydrogen Electrolyzer 

11 January 2021 - Tenaris and two other companies will work together on a project to bring hydrogen-based steelmaking to Tenaris’ Dalmine facility in Italy. 

Commercial Metals Co. Is Burning Daylight 

17 December 2020 - Commercial Metals Company’s original micro-mill in Mesa, Ariz., USA, is now being powered in part by electricity generated from 100-megawatt solar array, the company reports. 

Tata Steel Plans Environmental Investments in IJmuiden Plant

11 December 2020 - Tata Steel Europe has unveiled a EUR300 million plan to reduce emissions at its IJmuiden plant in the Netherlands.

Engineering Firm Contracted for Tata Steel Carbon Capture Project

19 November 2020 - Tata Steel has awarded a pre-front-end engineering design contract to multi-national engineering and construction firm McDermott International Ltd. for its North Sea carbon capture project. 

Nucor Enters Solar Power Agreement

16 November 2020 - Nucor Corp. has signed a virtual power purchase agreement for 250 megawatts’ worth of solar energy produced in Texas, the steelmaker has announced. 

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