German steel producer Salzgitter has signed a pre-contract for the offtake of Uniper-produced green hydrogen from a planned 200MW electrolysis plant at the port of Wilhelmshaven.
Under an AUD $59.1m ($39m) funding package, Australia is supporting 21 renewable hydrogen R&D and low-emissions iron and steel projects as it looks to secure its export potential.
Stahl-Holding-Saar (SHS) has officially launched a tender to procure up to 50,000 tonnes of green hydrogen to power its companies’ green steel projects.
Africa could capture 15% of globally traded hydrogen volumes, but higher project financing costs risks its production build out, a new Hydrogen Council report has found.
Tenova is set to supply a 30m direct reduction iron (DRI) tower and electric arc furnace (EAF) to an EU-backed Italian project looking to produce steel using 100% hydrogen.
French aluminium product producer Constellium plans to move forward with industrial testing of using hydrogen in its casthouses following lab-scale tests in 2022.
A stainless steel plant in India has started using green hydrogen produced on-site to cut its emissions.
Brazilian mining major Vale has signed an agreement to explore building a co-located iron ore briquette plant at a Spanish start-up’s green hydrogen-based steel project.
Strategic Resources will potentially explore Levidian’s LOOP technology in order to decarbonise its metallurgical facility as part of its BlackRock Project.
India has laid out plans to undertake pilot projects to use green hydrogen in the shipping and steel sectors, at a combined cost of Rs. 570 crores ($68.6m).
