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Effective decarbonisation of the steel sector is being touted as a key wedge for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. And for quite some time now, there has been a pressing need to have a consistent set of rules, guidelines, or definition of low-emissions steel, aka green steel. On 14 September 2022, ResponsibleSteel launched the International Standard V2.0 in a bid to increase reliability, ensure consistency, enable buyers to specify what green procurement means and maximise steel’s contribution to a sustainable society.

SSAB is aiming to launch the world's first fossil-free steel at a commercial scale by around 2026. While the greener variant of the metal is the hottest topic on the steel market right now, there is still a lot of obscurity around it. To answer some of the key questions, the Swedish company recently hosted a factpacked webinar called, “What is fossil-free steel and when will production start?”.

In an exclusive interview with Green Steel World, Mr. Tim Kleier, Head of Green Steel at SMS group, talks about how the company that stands for future-oriented technology is creating new perspectives beyond its core business and taking responsibility for the industry and society as a whole very seriously.

The Badische Group’s dynamic duo is in a unique position because BSE’s products and services are based not on theory, but on more than five decades of operational experience at BSW. That is the reason why BSE gets approached since 1983 by steel mills all over the world to increase their productivity, reduce energy consumption and their environmental impact like direct CO2 emissions.

China, India, Japan, and South Korea’s combined production of crude steel accounted for nearly 68% of the world’s total production in 2021 as per the World Steel Association data. While most from the region kept their decarbonisation plans under wraps, in December 2020, South Korean steel giant POSCO became the first to officially declare a carbon-neutral plan by fostering the hydrogen industry.

Helios, backed by the Israeli Energy Ministry and the Israel Space Agency (ISA), is using a reduction process that recycles the proprietary reducing agent in a closed loop, emitting only oxygen, and by doing so, reducing the overall energy needed in ironmaking by up to 50%.

During a conversation with the Green Steel World, Ms. Katarina Kangert, Head of Sustainability and Safety at Ovako Group, highlighted some key elements that set the company with 500 years of steelmaking legacy apart and what makes it passionate about offering specialty steels that bring huge benefits to customers and society.

POSCO plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 through its HyREX technology, a unique eco-friendly hydrogen reduction steelmaking model.

With the technological shift in steel manufacturing being the need of the hour, in 2016, Swedish manufacturer SSAB joined forces with mining company LKAB and energy provider Vattenfall, thus HYBRIT was born.

For the production of high-quality steel grades, steel producers usually need chemically pure and pre-sorted scrap.