Fortescue Metals Group has become one of the first of Australia’s major industrial operators to commit to fully decarbonise its operations and supply chains, including a shift to coal-free steel processing and hydrogen-fuelled shipping.
“Gray” steel will eventually be obsolete in Europe as “green” steel gains competitiveness, Gunnar Groebler, CEO of German steelmaker Salzgitter, a pioneer in the development of hydrogen steelmaking, said.
Based on the new MoU, TAQA and Emirates Steel will use green hydrogen to optimize clean steel production level
Several Swedish and Norwegian companies have teamed up to build a 17-MW fossil-free hydrogen facility at Ovako AB’s steel mill in Hofors, Sweden, it was announced on Tuesday.
Green steel needs an industry-wide definition to identify what can be considered as low-carbon steel, chairman of the executive board of Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, Bernhard Osburg, said.
