Green steel is Voestalpine’s ambitious phased plan for the long-term decarbonization of steel production. As a first step, the Group is now offering a CO2-reduced Edition of all the flat steel products manufactured by its Steel Division in Linz.
As a result of an innovative raw materials mix and even more efficient processes, the direct emissions generated during the manufacture of voestalpine’s greentec steel Edition products have been reduced by around 10 percent.
This step is achieved by modifying the reducing agent and the charge, as well as by maximizing the share of scrap, and converting to green electricity.
In a next stage in the phased plan, the partial replacement of the existing blast furnace route with a hybrid-electric steel pathway could reduce carbon emissions by around a third by 2030.
In parallel, the voestalpine Group is intensively researching into so-called breakthrough technologies in order to successively increase the use of green hydrogen in the steel production process over the long term and achieve carbon-neutral steel production by 2050.