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1. voda 1 juni 2022 08:51

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   POSCO Bags World Stainless Association’s Best Technology Award
   
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   01 Jun, 2022, 6:19 am
   
   South Korean steel giant POSCO has won the Gold Award in the technology category at the 26th International Stainless Steel Forum hosted by World Stainless Association. The technology that won the Gold Award this time was the high-performance ferrite stainless steel 430RE, Ridging Endurance, manufacturing technology. As the technology was selected as the best case of stainless-related technology development this year, POSCO’s technological skill was recognized worldwide.
   
   Recently, as home appliance makers make large-scale washing machines and drying machines, it has become important to improve the formability of the drum bottom and to reduce the defect of stripe pattern, ridging, on the surface. In addition, as the high-speed rotation performance of the drum is required to save water and power during spin-drying, the welding method with excellent bonding strength is preferred over the Lock Seaming method of connecting by folding and compressing the plate material when connecting the center of the drum.
   
   Accordingly, POSCO developed 430RE, a specialized steel grade that has features such as enhanced formability, anti-ridging, and corrosion resistance at welds compared to existing steel types and plans to expand its supply to overseas as well as domestic home appliance companies.
   
   Representative organization of the world’s stainless steel industry International Stainless Steel Forum, which was established in 1996, name was changed to World Stainless Association at this conference. Since 2015, the World Stainless Association has selected the best practices every year in four areas to recognize development efforts of member companies and to inspire new idea proposals.
   
   1. Market Development
   
   2. Technology
   
   3. Safety
   
   4. Sustainability
   
   POSCO has been proving its technology by winning awards 12 times since the first year for products such as 470FC (Gold Award in Technology) for hydrogen electric vehicle divider plate in 2018, fuel tank for PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) in 2020 (Silver Award in Technology), and stainless steel sealed container (Gold Award in Market Development) in 2020.
2. voda 1 juni 2022 08:53

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   Alfa Laval to Produce Heat Exchangers Using SSAB’s Green Steel
   
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   01 Jun, 2022, 6:22 am
   
   Swedish green steel pioneer SSAB & world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation & fluid handling Alfa Laval have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development and commercialization of the world’s first heat exchanger to be made using fossil free steel. The goal is to have the first unit made with hydrogen-reduced steel ready in 2023. The collaboration between the two industrials is an important step in Alfa Laval’s journey to become carbon neutral by 2030. Alfa LavalCEO Mr Tom Erixon said “By bringing together their fossil-free steel and our energy-efficient heat exchangers we can contribute to the industry’s transformation towards carbon neutrality.”
   
   It is also well aligned with SSAB’s aim to largely eliminate carbon-dioxide emissions from its own operations in around 2030. Together with partners and customers, SSAB aims to create complete fossil-free value chains from the mine to the end-product using HYBRIT technology and has enetered into several green steel supply pacts with steel users since 2021
   
   25 Jun, 2021 - Volvo Cars to Explore Using Fossil Free Steel with SSAB
   
   02 Sep, 2021 - SSAB to Deliver Fossil Free Steel to Mercedes-Benz
   
   06 Sep, 2021 - SSAB to Supply Fossil Free Steel to Faurecia for Automotive Seats
   
   08 Sep, 2021 - SSAB to Deliver Fossil Free Steel to Cargotec
   
   06 Oct, 2021 - SSAB to Deliver Fossil Free Steel to Construction Firm Peab
   
   14 Oct, 2021 - Volvo Unveils Mining Vehicle made from SSAB's Fossil Free Steel
   
   16 Nov, 2021 - SSAB & Autoliv to Collaborate on Fossil Free Steel inAuto Products
   
   19 Nov, 2021 - Lindab partners with SSAB on Fossil Free Steel
   
   24 Feb, 2022 - SSAB Joins Forces with Polestar to Develop Climate-Neutral Car
   
   12 Apr, 2022 - SSAB & Epiroc Partner on Fossil-Free Steel for Mining Equipment
   
   25 May, 2022 - SSAB to Start Green Steel Supplies to Volvo Trucks in Q3 of 2022
   
   SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall created HYBRIT, Hydrogen Breakthrough Ironmaking Technology, in 2016, with the aim of developing a technology for fossil-free iron- and steelmaking. In June 2021, the three companies were able to showcase the world’s first hydrogen-reduced sponge iron produced at HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå. Using HYBRIT technology, SSAB has the potential to reduce Sweden’s total carbon dioxide emissions by approximately ten per cent and Finland’s by approximately seven per cent.
3. voda 1 juni 2022 08:54

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   European Steel Makers Seek Support for Green Steel Transition
   
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   01 Jun, 2022, 6:52 am
   
   The CEOs of the EU steel industry & EUROFER have written an open letter to the European Parliament and the member states regarding changes to the EU’s emissions trading system which the association states will derail the transition to green steel production in Europe. They claim that European legislators are now considering proposals on the EU’s ETS, and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, reducing the main CO2 benchmark by around 40% undermining European steel maker’s capacity to invest in green steel projects and derails the transition to green steel production in Europe. They have called on the European Parliament and council to immediately address its concerns by avoiding further scaling back existing carbon-leakage protection until the CBAM has proven its effectiveness and a solution for exports is in place & preventing a sharp decrease in free allocation for existing steel plants which would result from a modification of the benchmark scope.
   
   The letter says “The proposals weaken carbon-leakage protection of our industry in the domestic and global markets, favouring international competitors which are not subject to equivalent carbon costs. In Europe, new allocation rules will suddenly reduce the main CO2 benchmark by around 40%, because of one plant that was previously not in the scope, and set a value which no company can achieve in just three years. This is due to a premature transition from the free allocation and indirect cost compensation system to a CBAM which has not yet been tested. Circumvention and resource shuffling are only a few of the many risks that could undermine the CBAM’s effectiveness. Moreover, the CBAM does not yet foresee any measure to preserve the EU’s 20 million tonne of steel exports per year, worth EUR 45 billion, and the 30,000 jobs that are directly dependent on these.”
   
   They have called on the European Parliament and Council to immediately address these concerns and in particular to
   
   1. Avoid further scaling back existing carbon-leakage protection until the CBAM has proven its effectiveness and a solution for exports is in place
   
   2. Prevent a sharp decrease in free allocation for existing steel plants which would result from a modification of the benchmark scope. Instead, low-carbon technologies must be rewarded without reducing prematurely benchmark values, at least in the first years when such technologies are introduced at an industrial scale
   
   The CEOs of Eu Steel Industry & EUROFER
   
   Geert Van Poelvoorde, CEO, ArcelorMittal Europe
   
   Bernhard Osburg, CEO, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG
   
   Henrik Adam, Chairman of the Board, Tata Steel Netherlands Holding
   
   Francesc Rubiralta Rubio, Chairman and CEO, CELSA Group
   
   Olavi Huhtala, CEO, SSAB Europe
   
   Mario Caldonazzo, CEO, Arvedi
   
   Hubert Zajicek, CEO, voestalpine Steel Division
   
   Lorenzo Riva, CEO, Riva Group
   
   Gunnar Groebler, CEO, Salzgitter AG
   
   Timoteo Di Maulo, CEO, Aperam
   
   Karl-Ulrich Köhler, Chairman of the Board, SHS-Stahl-Holding-Saar Gmbh &Co
   
   Ajay Aggarwal, President of the Board, Liberty Galati
   
   Heikki Malinen, President and CEO, Outokumpu Oyj
   
   Jan Czudek, CEO, Trinecké železárny
   
   Bernardo Velázquez Herreros, President, UNESID – Spanish Steel Association
   
   Carlos Gil Robles, Administrator, Megasa
   
   Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, President, Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl
   
   James E. Bruno, President, US Steel Košice
   
   Zlatislav Ivkov, General Manager, Stomana Industry S.A.
   
   Markus Ritter, CEO, Marienhütte Stahl & Walzwerk GmbH
   
   George Michos, CEO, Sidenor Group
   
   Vasileios Goumas, CEO, Hellenic Halyvourgia
   
   Markus Menges and Florian Glück, Managing Directors, Badische Stahlwerke GmbH
   
   Radek Strouhal, CEO, Vítkovice Steel
   
   Giuseppe Pasini, President, Feralpi Group
   
   Claudio Riva, President, Riva Acciaio
   
   Alessandro Banzato, CEO, Acciaierie Venete
   
   Antonio Marcegaglia, President and CEO, Marcegaglia Steel
   
   Giuseppe Lucchini, President, Lucchini Rs
   
   Michele Della Briotta, President Europe, Tenaris
   
   Klaus Enwald, CEO, Ovako Imatra Oy Ab
   
   Alexander Becker, CEO, GMH Gruppe
   
   Francisco Irazusta, Executive Chairman, Tubos Reunidos SA
   
   Nicos Georgakellos, President, ENXE – Hellenic Steelmakers Union
   
   Ionel Bors, President, UniRomSider – Romanian Steel Producers’ Union
   
   Stefan Dzienniak, President of the board, HIPH – Polish Steel Association
   
   Roman Stiftner, Managing Director, Austrian Mining and Steel Association
   
   Ivan Jurkošek, General Manager, Štore Steel
   
   Annika Roos, Managing Director, Jernkontoret
   
   Kimmo Järvinen, Managing Director, Metallinjalostajat
   
   Philippe Coigné, Director General, Groupement de la Sidérurgie
   
   Bruno Jacquemin, Délégué Général, A3M
   
   Daniel Urban, Chairman, Ocelárská unie
   
   Anton Petrov, Chairman of the Board, Bulgarian Association of the Metallurgical Industry
   
   Caterina Epis, Institutional Relations Director, Tenaris
   
   Ianc Petru, Executive Manager, UNITUB – General Union of Romanian Tubes Producers
   
   Michel Tellier, CEO, Reinosa Forgings & Castings
   
   Timo Rautalahti, CEO, Boliden Harjavalta
   
   Klaus Peters, Secretary General, ESTEP – European Steel Technology Platform
   
   Axel Eggert, Director General, The European Steel Association EUROFER
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   British Steel Launches Feasibility Study for Use of Green Hydrogen
   
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   01 Jun, 2022, 6:56 am
   
   Chinese Jingye Group’s British Steel is conducting a major study into the use of green hydrogen in the company’s drive to decarbonise its operations and manufacture net-zero steel. The steelmaker, which is collaborating with EDF UK, University College London and the Materials Processing Institute, has pledged to deliver net-zero steel by 2050 and significantly reduce its CO2 intensity by 2030 and 2035. To support its ambitious plans, it has secured funding from the UK Government for a feasibility study into switching from natural gas to green hydrogen as a fuel source for re-heating furnaces.
   
   If the study is successful, British Steel will undertake an industrial-scale demonstration, which could see the technology developed and rolled out across all its operations including its main manufacturing base in Scunthorpe. It could also be adopted by other UK steelmakers.
   
   British Steel won funding for the research from the UK Government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. The NZIP funding from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy provides funding for low-carbon technologies and systems. Decreasing the costs of decarbonisation, the Portfolio will help enable the UK to end its contribution to climate change. With its partners, British Steel is now undertaking a 6-month study based on operations at its Teesside Beam Mill.
   
   The study links into the Tees Green Hydrogen project – a pioneering scheme that will use green electricity from the nearby Teesside Offshore Wind Farm along with a new solar farm, which EDF Renewables UK intends to construct near Redcar, to power its hydrogen electrolyser. Tees Green Hydrogen will supply local business customers with hydrogen to support decarbonisation efforts and a significant reduction in industrial pollution.
   
   British Steel’s ambition is for low-embedded carbon steel production with a phased reduction of CO2 intensity by 2035 and 2050. Its Low-Carbon Roadmap will deliver net-zero steel by 2050 and significantly reduce CO2 intensity by 2030 and 2035. British Steel will adopt a science-based target in order to validate the reductions achieved to keep global warming well below 2 degree Celsius and pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.52 degree Celsius.
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   Invitalia Extends Deadline for Acciaierie d'ltalia Acquisition
   
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   01 Jun, 2022, 6:59 am
   
   Italian Governaments Invitalia SpA & ArcelorMittal, as shareholders of Acciaierie d'ltalia Holding SpA have entered into a two-year extension until 31 May 2024 of the investment agreement and shareholder agreement originally signed on 10 December 2020, previously communicated to the market. The ownership and governance structure of Acciaierie d'ltalia remains, therefore, unchanged for the next two years.
   
   The extension has been necessary considering the non-fulfillment of the conditions precedent on which the implementation of the second envisaged capital increase of Acciaierie d'ltalia depends as well as in order to allow the renewal of the lease of the business units of Ilva SpA in Extraordinary Administration which hassigned an extension of the lease agreement with Acciaierie d'ltalia.
   
   An ambitious environmental and industrial investment plan of approximately 1.7 billion euros is also confirmed up to 2026 for the gradual production decarbonization and the absorption of the 10,700 workers employed at the group's plants.
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   JSW Steel Plans 36 Million Tonne Per Annum Capacity in India
   
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   01 Jun, 2022, 7:02 am
   
   Financial Express reported that India’s leading steel maker JSW Steel will expand its production capacity in the country by 10 million tonne to 36 million tonne per annum with an estimated investment of Rs 20,000 crore. JSW Steel’s Joint Managing Director & Group CFO Mr Seshagiri Rao told “The capacity expansion would be from 26 million tonne per annum, which would be about 7.5 million tonne per annum at Vijayanagar and 2.5 million tonne per annum at Bhushan Power & Steel. These would be met through internal cash flows. The capex for the last fiscal stood at INR 15,000 crore. Last year, we increased capacity to 23 million tonne per annum from the earlier 18 million tonne per JSW Steel is also expecting the merger of JSW Ispat Special Products to add 1 million tonne to the overall production capacity, taking it to 27 million tonne per annum.”
   
   He added “Of the total capex for the year, JSW Steel will invest about INR 3,400 crore for expansion of its greenfield facility in Odisha, which includes expansion of mining capacity, to automate it and buy new equipment, among others. We are also investing in a slurry pipeline. As far as the integrated steel plant in Odisha is concerned, we will take up the project once the land is handed over to us. That will take some time.”
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   HyDeal Espana Selects VINCI, Reunidas, PowerChina & TKS for Design
   
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   01 Jun, 2022, 7:05 am
   
   VINCI Construction in association with its Cobra unit, Técnicas Reunidas, PowerChina and Guizhou Engineering will carry out the basic design phase of the Europe’s largest integrated renewable hydrogen hub. The three companies will work to design the highest performance and most cost effective solar-to-hydrogen systems to produce HyDeal España’s renewable hydrogen on the basis of ambitious, pre-agreed engineering, procurement and construction cost targets. HyDeal España and the EPC firms will be supported by TSK as Owner’s Engineer.
   
   Announced in February 2022, HyDeal España is an industrial joint venture formed by ArcelorMittal, Enagás, Grupo Fertiberia and DH2 Energy. HyDeal España will deliver competitive renewable hydrogen to an industrial complex in Asturias from facilities based in northern Spain. The total installed capacity is expected to reach 9.5 GW of solar power and 7.4 GW of electrolyzers. Production is targeted to start by the end of 2025, to produce about 150,000 tons of renewable hydrogen per year from 2026 and reach 330,000 tons in 2030. ArcelorMittal and Grupo Fertiberia have announced their intention to contract, together with other key off-takers, the supply of 6.6 million tons of renewable hydrogen over 20 years.
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   MP’s Warn that UK Government Lacks Green Steel Ambition
   
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   01 Jun, 2022, 7:14 am
   
   British Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has warned that steel production in UK, which currently accounts for 14% of Britain's industrial emissions, could be jeopardised as British Governments initiatives to decarbonisation the industry lacks ambition compared to other countries. The Environmental Audit Committee has been examining the readiness of green steel technologies and the necessary policy environment required for their deployment in industry, as part of the Committee's inquiry into Technological Innovations and Climate Change.
   
   Environmental Audit Committee Chairman MP Mr Philip Dunne in a letter titled Technological Innovations and Climate Change inquiry: Green Steel wrote to UK’s Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy MP Mr Kwasi Kwarteng MP Technological Innovations and Climate Change inquiry: Green Steel “The wide range of evidence provided to us suggests that decarbonisation presents an opportunity for the UK steel industry to compete in the global market. This opportunity depends on the creation of the right policy framework and Government support. I am now writing to indicate a number of issues raised in the evidence that we have received, on which the Committee seeks clarification as to the Government's approach.”
   
   The Committee recently published its report Building to Net Zero: Costing Carbon in construction, which recommend the introduction of mandatory whole-life carbon assessments for buildings as the most effective way to encourage the development and use of low-carbon and recycled products in the built environment.33 Witnesses have highlighted to us that mandating the requirement for green steel in public infrastructure will help to stimulate market demand for green steel and instil confidence in the industry to invest in green steel technologies.
   
   A. The contribution of a decarbonised steel industry to net zero targets
   
   B. Examination of the available technologies
   
   1. Hydrogen-based production i.e. hydrogen-Direct reduced iron or direct injection of hydrogen into existing blast furnaces
   
   2. Greater reliance on the recycling of scrap steel with electric-arc furnace technology or secondary production
   
   3. Carbon capture and storage
   
   4. Partial substitution of coking coal with biomass feedstocks.
   
   C. Government's policy on promoting the use of green steel in public procurement. Please also indicate whether the Government plans to use existing bodies, such as the UK Steel Council, to promote its policies on the decarbonisation of steel production, or whether it plans to establish a new body
   
   D. UK steel industry is expected to benefit from Government funds such as the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund38, the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund39 and the Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage Infrastructure Fund. What proportion of each of the the funds established to support industrial transition will be made available for direct support to the steel industry for its operational and capital costs during the transition
   
   E. Government's rationale for the decision to withhold the Clean Steel Fund until 2023, when industry players are prepared to set out their decarbonisation plans now, and what plans the Government has to review the ambition of the Clean Steel Fund.
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   Mr Biden Sets Quota for Steel Imports from UK
   
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   01 Jun, 2022, 7:24 am
   
   US has sconcluded discussions with the United Kingdom with respect to Section 232 tariffs on US import of UK-produced steel. US will impose a tariff-rate quota on steel products that are melted and poured from the UK and imported from either the UK or further processed in the European Union, which will confer EU country of origin. The aggregate tariff-rate quota volume is specified at 500,000 tonnes. US President Mr Joseph R Biden Jr vide a proclamation on 31 May 2022 announced that in light of my determination to adjust the tariff proclaimed in Proclamation 9705 as applied to eligible steel articles and derivative steel articles that are melted and poured in the UK and imported from either the UK or the European Union, I have considered whether it is necessary and appropriate in light of our national security interests to make any corresponding adjustments to such tariff as it applies to other countries. I have determined that it is necessary and appropriate, at this time, to maintain the current tariff level as it applies to other countries.”
   
   The announcement also said that while the Biden administration has considered whether to make corresponding adjustments on Section 232 tariffs on other countries, Mr Biden has determined it is necessary and appropriate to maintain current tariff levels on other sources of US import steel.
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    Volvo Trucks to Use Green Steel in Trucks Frame Rails
    
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    01 Jun, 2022, 6:30 am
    
    As the world’s first truck manufacturer to do so, Volvo is now introducing fossil-free steel in its trucks. The steel is produced by the Swedish steel company SSAB and the heavy-duty electric Volvo trucks will be the first to include it. The first steel produced with hydrogen will be used in the truck’s frame rails, the backbone of the truck upon which all other main components are mounted. As the availability of fossil-free steel increases, it will also be introduced in other parts of the truck.
    
    The steel from SSAB is produced using a completely new technology, based on hydrogen. The result is a much lower climate impact than conventionally produced steel. Small scale introduction of the steel in Volvo’s heavy electric trucks will begin in the third quarter of 2022.
    
    Volvo Group is collaborating with SSAB on fossil-free steel since 2021. The first machine, a load carrier made of fossil-free steel, was showcased in October 2021. Fossil-free steel will be an important complement to the traditional and recycled steel used in Volvo’s trucks.

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    Safeguard review creates new HDG import challenges: conference
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    Importers of hot-dip galvanized coil into Europe are set to face a series of new challenges from the beginning of July, as the new rules related to safeguard measures come into force.
    
    Participants of this week’s Kallanish Europe Steel Markets 2022 conference in Milan voiced their concerns over the inclusion of HDG imports from Vietnam in the safeguard system.
    
    According to Eurofer data, Vietnam supplied last year into Europe over 900,000 tonnes of hot-dip galvanised material, most of which was coil. These were exempted from safeguard measures, but from July 2022 they will be included in the global 4a sub-category for safeguard measures.
    
    Before 2017, imports of Vietnamese hot-dipped galvanised materials into Europe were virtually zero. 2018 saw a record volume of slightly below 250,000t, according to Eurofer.
    
    “We knew Vietnam was going to be included in the safeguard system, but the decision to not change the general tariff rate quota allocation for the 4a sub-group will have a big impact on the market. Vietnam imports will be competing with Turkish volumes to use the available quotas. During the last quarters, the general quotas for this product were already being fully used during the very first days,” commented Paolo Sangoi, head of Assofermet Acciai.
    
    Gamma Trade’s Alessandro Fossati confirmed Sangoi’s view and added that the biggest problem will be noticed by Italian buyers of HDG.
    
    Russian-origin imports are now banned as part of the Ukraine war-related sanctions against the country, while Turkish HDG imports are set to be levied with the newly-announced definitive anti-dumping duties of 8-11%, for all suppliers excluding Tatmetal (2.4%).
    
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    LISCO Seeks German & Italian Cooperation for Development
    
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    02 Jun, 2022, 6:15 am
    
    Libya Observer reported that Libyan Iron & Steel Company is exploring opportunities for cooperation with German & Italian companies working in steel sector. Libyan Iron and Steel Company Chairman Mr Mohammed Al-Faqih has recently met German Ambassador to Libya Mr Michael Unmacht & Italian ambassador to Libya Mr Giuseppe Buccino at LISCO headquarter in Misrata in Libya and discussed ways to enhance cooperation with German & Italian iron and steel companies.
    
    The Libyan Iron and Steel Company is one of the largest iron and steelmaking companies operating in North Africa. Based in Misrata, it is subsidized and owned by the Libyan government. Lisco's foundation stone was officially laid on 18 September 1979. Lisco is among the largest companies in Libya, having an annual production capacity of approximately 1.324 million tonnes of liquid steel.
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    ThyssenKrupp to Separate ThyssenKrupp Steel Logistics
    
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    02 Jun, 2022, 6:18 am
    
    Germany’s largest steel producer Duisburg based ThyssenKrupp Steel is also the country’s second largest logistics provider with 142 million tonnes transported. In the future this strength is to be developed more effectively with a partner in order to participate more strongly in the logistics market, in particular on the strategically important Rhine water axis. As part of its Strategy 20-30, ThyssenKrupp Steel has therefore decided to position the port unit as a ThyssenKrupp subsidiary, independent of the steel business. All employees will be kept on. Together with the trade union IG Metall, ThyssenKrupp Steel has arranged the transfer of undertakings for the employees concerned in order to retain the experienced staff and give them maximum job security in the logistics subsidiary. ThyssenKrupp Steel Logistics GmbH, which will initially be a wholly-owned subsidiary with 300 employees, will become independent at the beginning of July 2022.
    
    The complete port complex comprising the Schwelgern plant port to which raw materials are delivered and the Walsum port where general cargo is handled as well as associated units will be transferred to the new company
    
    Once steel production in Duisburg has been switched from the conventional blast furnace route to direct reduction using hydrogen, large parts of materials supplies will no longer be needed: Coal, for example, which is transported by ship on the Rhine to the Schwelgern port. This would unlock further capacity. The logistics hub in Duisburg connects ship and rail especially for sustainable transport development and thus also contributes to the transformation to climate-neutral steel production. Logistics would become more independent of steel and would gain strategic importance along the Rhine.
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    Nippon Steel EPDs for Process Omission Steel Bar & Wire Products
    
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    Japanese steel giant Nippon Steel Corporation has published the EcoLeaf Environmental Product Declarations, which is provided under the Japan EPD Program by SuMPO, a certification program operated by the Sustainable Management Promotion Organization, SuMPO, for Nippon Steel’s process omission steel bar products and process omission steel wire products. The process-omission steel bar and wire products are high-performance steel materials that enable customers to eliminate some of the multiple and diverse steel processing steps like heat treatment, wire drawing & finishing etc.
    
    In manufacturing steel products, the steel processing steps, which are performed to satisfy quality requirements for final products and parts, consume a considerable amount of energy and emit CO2. As efforts to address these issues, Nippon Steel has successfully eliminated some of the steel processing steps including heat treatment for its customers by bringing out the properties of steel through the application of our proprietary heat treatment process, special control measures for manufacturing processes, and addition of trace elements, etc. during the internal manufacturing stage at our company. Moreover, the process-omission steel bar and wire products successfully reduce CO2 emissions throughout the supply chain including Nippon Steel and our customers.
    
    Prior to these latest achievements, in February 2022, Nippon Steel received certifications for our bar & bar in coil, wire rod, bar & bar in coil and wire rod, which represent all product categories.
    
    Since first published the EcoLeaf EPDs for H-shapes in December 2019, Nippon Steel has thus far published a total of 35 EcoLeaf EPDs for variety of products, covering most of our steel products. As initiatives for carbon neutrality accelerate worldwide, customers are evaluating companies from an increasing number of aspects including the materials that they use, too. Nippon Steel will continue to support our customers’ international competitiveness by providing high-performance steel products that help reduce CO2 emissions for all of society including in the processing stages, such as process-omission steel bar and wire products.
    
    The EcoLeaf EPD is an EPD certification program that uses the Life Cycle Assessment method to quantitatively visualize the environmental information of products throughout their life cycle stages, from the extraction of resources to manufacturing & assembly, distribution, use and discarding & recycling. This allows Nippon Steel’s customers to objectively assess the environmental burden throughout the life cycles of the products they use A Type III environmental declaration, known as EPD, is compliant with the ISO 14025 standard. EPD quantitatively discloses the information on emissions to environment etc. of the declared products from resource mining, transportation, manufacturing etc. and recycling potential. The program is operated by the Sustainable Management Promotion Organization in Japan. The declaration provides quantitative information for the corporate climate action.
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    Materials Processing Institute Leads H2DRI Green Steel Pilot in UK
    
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    02 Jun, 2022, 6:28 am
    
    UK’s Teesside based Materials Processing Institute is leading GBP 270,000 project this summer to demonstrate green steelmaking innovation in the UK, which will replace coke and other polluting fossil fuels currently powering traditional iron furnaces with hydrogen and electricity to create a low carbon steel industry. The project codenamed H2DRI will focus on how the process can be scaled up and will build practical and scientific understanding on how best to deliver economically and environmentally sustainable green steelmaking. In addition, they will collaborate with a larger industrial interest group made up of ironmakers, steelmakers and supply chain businesses, including energy developers. The initial part of the project will involve a feasibility study before the development of permanent and accessible national pilot production facilities.
    
    Part of UK government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Industrial Fuel Switching Competition that funds low carbon technologies and systems, the project is led by the Institute in partnership with electrical technology developers C-Tech Innovation, Teesside University, the Steel and Metals Institute at Swansea University and global metals and mining company Rio Tinto.
    
    Materials Processing Institute is developing materials and commercialising technologies for industrial processes, to improve efficiency, productivity and yield with focus in the processing of materials, especially steel and metals, and the development of new alloys.
    
    C-Tech Innovation designs & supplies process equipment for improvements in capability, productivity, and quality with focus on continuous process technology, including processes with electrochemical and electro-heating requirements.
    
    Swansea University’s Steel and Metals Institute SaMI is an open access facility that works predominantly with the steel and metals industry to deliver practical innovative solutions. Its experts design and implement bespoke research through collaborative research partnerships with steel and metals producers, suppliers and end-users. SaMI supports the steel and metals industry in the challenge to decarbonise through lower carbon products and processes, reduced carbon emissions, and creation of a circular economy.
    
    The Tees Valley Hydrogen Innovation Project supports local SMEs to accelerate the development of business opportunities within the hydrogen and decarbonisation economies. Helping deliver the ambitious plans for the Tees Valley region in becoming a clean energy powerhouse for the UK, TVHIP's work in supporting the development of a hydrogen economy will help create thousands of jobs for the region and attract further investment into the area. It is financially supported through the European Regional Development Fund
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    Enel Green Power España Launches Tico Wind Farm in Spain
    
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    02 Jun, 2022, 6:30 am
    
    Enel Green Power España has connected the 180 MW wind farm “Tico Wind” to the grid, marking the official launch of its largest wind farm in Spain. The facility located in the town of Villar de los Navarros, province of Zaragoza, involved an investment amounting to 181 million euros.
    
    The project, whose construction began in May 2021, included training courses on panel assembly and maintenance and operation of solar plants as part of a plan to create shared value in the local communities where it operates. In Spain, the company has trained more than 2,100 people in renewal works, enabling their entry into a booming labor market.
    
    The plant will generate about 471 GWh per year, which from a sustainability point of view have the potential to avoid the equivalent of up to almost 192,200 tons of CO2 each year. At the same time, the output produced by the plant has the potential to avoid the purchase of up to 88 million cubic meters of gas from foreign sources per year, replaced by domestically produced renewable energy.
    
    The renewable energy will be partially supplied to global medicines company, Novartis, with whom Enel Green Power España, signed a 10-year pan-European Virtual Power Purchase Agreement in 2020, covering a capacity of 78.5 MW of electricity following plant commissioning. The project will help avoid 96,000 tons of CO2 per year, helping address part of Novartis’ carbon footprint across its European operations.
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    ArcelorMittal Brazil to Boost Auto Steel Capacity at Sabará Plant
    
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    02 Jun, 2022, 6:31 am
    
    ArcelorMittal Brazil has announced new investments of around BRL 144 million (USD 30 million) in the Sabará in the state of Minas Gerais of Brazil until 2024. With the new investment, the 5th announced by the company in recent months, the amount that will be invested by company in its Brazilian operations totals BRL 7.8 billion, the largest in the steel industry in progress in Brazil. Concentrated in three years, from 2022 to 2025, the investments are being destined to the expansions of the units of Vega in Santa Catarina, Monlevade & Serra Azul in Minas Gerais and Barra Mansa in Rio de Janeiro.
    
    Most of the disbursements, around BRL 4.5 billion, are destined for expansions in Minas. In the case of the Sabará plant, capacity will be increased by 35% to offer high added value solutions for the automotive and industrial sectors. With the acquisition of two new automated drawing equipments, ArcelorMittal will expand its portfolio of steel solutions for the market of springs, dampers, screws, fasteners and other industry products.
    
    In addition to ensuring more quality and adding new solutions, the arrival of the equipment at the Sabará plant will expand customer support.
    
    João Monlevade - Investments: BRL 2.5 billion. Another sintering plant, a new blast furnace and the doubling of the steel shop will be implemented, increasing steel production capacity by more than 1 million tonnes per year.
    
    Serra Azul Itatiaiuçu - Investments: BRL 1.8 billion. A new ore beneficiation plant with a capacity of 4.5 million tonnes per year will be set up. A new fleet of operating equipment will also be acquired at the mine, including trucks, excavators and drills.
    
    Sabará - Investments: BRL 144 million. Acquisition of two new automated wire drawing equipment and a 35% increase in production capacity to serve automotive and industrial markets.
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    Volvo CE Delives Hauler Built Using SSAB Green Steel to NCC
    
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    02 Jun, 2022, 6:34 am
    
    In the latest step on its path toward carbon neutrality, Gothenburg headquartered 107 year old Swedish multinational Manufacturing Corporation Volvo’s Volvo Construction Equipment has becomes the first manufacturer to deliver a construction machine built using fossil-free steel to a customer demonstrating that the fast-tracking of innovation to real-world solutions as companies across the value chain come together to drive change. The A30G articulated hauler built using Swedish steel maker SSAB’s fossil-free steel was handed over to long-standing customer NCC AB at a ceremony hosted by the Leadership Group for Industry Transition LeadIt in conjunction with the United Nations environmental meeting Stockholm +50. It was attended by US Special Presidential Envoy to Climate Mr John Kerry & Swedish Minister for Climate Ms Annika Strandhäll.
    
    NCC AB is a Swedish construction company, the second largest in the Nordic region. Volvo CE’s A30G, with payload capacity of 29,000 kgs & body volume of 17.8 cubic meters, is used in quarrying, mining or earthmoving applications
    
    The handover comes just nine months after Volvo unveiled the world´s first vehicle concept using fossil-free steel, as part of testing the implementation in an ordinary production setup, and just ten months after SSAB showcased the first steel ever made using hydrogen instead of coking coal.
    
    In the summer of 2021, SSAB produced the world's first steel made from sponge iron reduced by hydrogen gas on a pilot scale. SSAB plans to offer fossil-free steel at an industrial scale to the market as early as in 2026 and aims to largely eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from its own operations in around 2030, 15 years ahead of previous plans. Together with partners and customers, SSAB wants to build completely fossil-free value chains, from mine to end product.
    
    As part of its Science-Based Targets commitment, Volvo CE is set to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Alongside the electrification of its machines, the company recognizes the importance of reducing its carbon footprint across its entire value chain. This includes the raw materials used in its products, of which steel is a major component. The production using fossil-free steel in Volvo CE’s machines and components will be gradual and depend on aspects such as steel availability.
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    NMDC Records 14% Increase in Iron Ore Production in May
    
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    02 Jun, 2022, 6:37 am
    
    Continuing on the growth trajectory, India’s largest iron ore miner NMDC has produced 3.2 million tonnes & sold 2.65 million tonnes of iron ore in May 2023.Iron ore production in May 2022 iss 14.3% higher than the 2.8 million tonnes produced in May 2021.
    
    NMDC’s cumulative production during April-May 2022 stood at 6.35 million tonnes, a 7.4% YoY growth from the cumulative production of 5.91 million tonnes in April-May 2021. NMDC has sold 5.77 million tonnes in April-May 2023
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    Shandong Province Caps 2022 Crude Steel Output at 77 Million Tonne
    
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    02 Jun, 2022, 6:40 am
    
    China's Shandong Province in Eastern part has begun taking steps to ensure that the Shandong Province's crude steel output this in 2022 falls below 2021 volume in compliance with China’s policy of keeping China’s crude steel production under control. Shandong Province’s government has issued guidelines in this regard to steel mills across the province instructing them to ensure that total crude steel output in 2022 in Shandong Province should be lower than 76.5 million tonnes. Accordingly, local governments in various cities in Shandong Province have ordered various steel mills to divide local steel output guidance by the month and ensure the output will not exceed the monthly volumes of 2021. But information so far suggests that not all steelmakers in Shandong Province have been ordered to cut production.
    
    Shandong Province’s crude steel production in January-April 2022 has been reduced by 21.9% YoY to 22.95 million tonnes due to COVID-19 resurgence and stringent air pollution controls. Amid weak steel demand & thin margins local steelmakers seem to be on track to meet output control targets.
    
    This move is targeted at giving the steel sector more room for transforming into a low-carbon industry and also to tame market talks over steel output cuts that have caused price volatility and is in line with China’s plan for reaching steel industry to peak carbon emissions by 2030,.
    
    Shandong Province was China’s third largest steelmaking province in 2021 after Hebei Province & Jiangsu Province, with crude steel production 4.3% lower than 2020.