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27
Jul

XCarb: ArcelorMittal invests in Form Energy

ArcelorMittal has announced it has completed its second investment in the company’s recently launched XCarb™ innovation fund, serving as lead investor in Form Energy’s 200 million $ Series D financing round, ...

27
Jul

Tenova launches hydrogen-ready burner for heat treatment furnaces

Tenova has announced the accomplishment of a key milestone towards a more sustainable combustion process: the development of the first burners for heat treatment furnaces using up to 100 % ...

19
Jul

Fossil-free steel: SSAB launches an extensive research project in Finland

Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Green Steel | Markets & Economy | Research & Development | Sustainability

SSAB has launched an extensive research project, FFS – Towards Fossil-free Steel, in Finland. In the project, SSAB will work together with industrial and research partners to explore different solutions and ...

15
Jul

Decarbonisation: Metinvest and Primetals sign Memorandum of Understanding

During the first International Decarbonisation Forum held in Kyiv, Metinvest has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Primetals ...

15
Jul

voestalpine sets new standards in automotive lightweight construction

Categories: Products & Services | Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Electromobility | Markets & Economy | Research & Development

In 1949, the LD process was the “invention of the century” that instantly changed the global steel industry. And in recent decades, voestalpine has set new standards in automotive lightweight ...

14
Jul

Investment in decarbonisation: ArcelorMittal signs MoU with the Spanish Government

ArcelorMittal has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Spanish Government that will see a 1 billion € investment in decarbonisation technologies at ArcelorMittal Asturias’ plant in ...

05
Jul

Extended Deadline for Call for Abstracts: 13th European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boilers

Categories: Events | Research & Development
Topics: Industrial Furnaces | Research & Development | Thermprocess

The 13th European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boilers is the latest in a series of very successful conferences, which have been held in Portugal since ...

05
Jul

MPIE: New deep neural network for predicting materials’ mechanical behaviour

Category: Research & Development
Topics: Digitalisation | Markets & Economy | Material Engineering | Research & Development

Scientists from the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE) and DeepMetis, a venture specialised on artificial intelligence in Berlin, used deep neural networks to calculate local stress in complex materials ...

05
Jul

Investigating a new route to produce green steel through hydrogen plasma

Category: Research & Development
Topics: Green Steel | Hydrogen | Markets & Economy | Research & Development | Sustainability

A team of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE) explores the possibility to use hydrogen plasma for the reduction of iron ore instead of using coke or reformed natural ...

01
Jul

Paul Wurth team honoured with the Grand Prix in Engineering Sciences

Categories: Personal | Research & Development
Topics: Markets & Economy | Research & Development

A team of four engineers from Paul Wurth, composed of Fabrice Hansen, Yves Reuter, Christophe Solver and Paul Tockert, has been honoured with the Grand Prix in Engineering Sciences for their ...

30
Jun

Svenja Schulze visits thyssenkrupp Steel in Duisburg

Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze has visited thyssenkrupp Steel’s steel mill in ...

28
Jun

ABB and Axpo cooperate for accessible and affordable green hydrogen

Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Hydrogen | Markets & Economy | Research & Development

28.06.2021. ABB has joined forces with Swiss utility Axpo to develop modular green hydrogen production plants in Italy, that aim at creating an optimum operating model to produce affordable green hydrogen. The two ...

28
Jun

Innovative climate protection project: König-Brauerei, E.ON and thyssenkrupp Steel

28.06.2021. Three companies based in the Rhine and Ruhr region in Germany are launching a climate protection project. Their plan is to conduct industrial waste heat from thyssenkrupp Steel’s plants to König-Brauerei ...

24
Jun

First tests of HYFOR performed at the pilot plant at the voestalpine site in Donawitz

24.06.2021. In April, the hydrogen-based fine-ore reduction (HYFOR) pilot plant developed by Primetals Technologies was commissioned at the voestalpine site in Donawitz, Austria. First tests were successful. Test with ...

23
Jun

Salzgitter AG receives updated assessment for sustainable business

23.06.2021. Salzgitter AG has received an updated ESG Assessment score of 54/100 from V.E, part of Moody’s ESG Solutions. This is not only above the industry average in Europe, but also represents an improvement of 23 ...

22
Jun

Volkswagen plans to use new 3D printing process in car production

Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Additive Manufacturing | Markets & Economy | Material Engineering | Research & Development

22.06.2021. Volkswagen is pressing ahead with the use of innovative 3D printers in car production. For the first time, the newest process – known as binder jetting – is being used to manufacture components at the ...

22
Jun

Sweden’s largest fossil-free hydrogen facility being built in Hofors

22.06.2021. Sweden’s largest fossil-free hydrogen facility is now being built with the goal of greatly reducing CO2 emissions, developing local industrial hydrogen production, and taking the first step towards a ...

22
Jun

HYBRIT: SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall produce the world’s first hydrogen-reduced sponge iron

22.06.2021. SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall have now produced the world’s first hydrogen-reduced sponge iron at a pilot scale. The technological breakthrough in the HYBRIT initiative captures around 90 % of emissions in ...

17
Jun

Volvo Cars is first carmaker to explore fossil-free steel with SSAB

Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Electromobility | Hydrogen | Markets & Economy | Research & Development

17.06.2021. SSAB is teaming up with Volvo Cars to jointly explore the development of fossil-free, high-quality steel for use in the automotive industry. The collaboration makes Volvo Cars the first carmaker to work with ...

16
Jun

Design competition purmundus challenge at Formnext 2021

16.06.2021. Innovation in Progress is the theme of this year’s international purmundus challenge design competition. The aim is to celebrate the latest developments in the world of 3D and 4D printing; a world where ...

15
Jun

Green steel production: voestalpine holds patent for carbon-neutral pre-material

15.06.2021. voestalpine has developed an industrial scale process for carbon-neutral steel production without the use of fossil carbon. For that, the Group secured the intellectual property rights to the process from ...

15
Jun

ArcelorMittal makes first investment through its XCarb innovation fund

15.06.2021. ArcelorMittal has announced the completion of its first XCarb™ innovation fund investment since launching the initiative in March 2021. The company has invested an initial 10 million $ in Heliogen, a ...

09
Jun

NextChem and Paul Wurth jointly promote combined use of electrolysis and syngas production

09.06.2021. Maire Tecnimont Group’s subsidiary NextChem, and Paul Wurth, a company of SMS group and technology provider for the steel industry, will join forces to promote the combined use of electrolysis and syngas ...

07
Jun

Iron ore pelletising and beneficiation plants: Primetals and NewFer sign cooperation

Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Markets & Economy | Plant Engineering | Research & Development

07.06.2021. Primetals Technologies and NewFer have signed a cooperation agreement in April 2021 for the joint development and implementation of iron ore pelletising and beneficiation plants. The cooperation with NewFer ...

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