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The new technologies can also be used in existing blast furnaces to achieve a reduction in CO2 emissions at existing sites worldwide. © SMS Group

SMS supplies blast furnace decarbonization technology

16. February 2022 Hans Georg Schätzl

SMS Group will improve the efficiency of processes at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) by using “syngas”, a combination of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which will replace part of […]

Pavel Shilyaev (right), CEO of MMK, and Burkhard Dahmen, CEO of the SMS Group. Image: © SMS Group

MMK and SMS Group cooperate in the field of decarbonization

19. September 2021 Hans Georg Schätzl

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), Russia, and SMS Group today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of decarbonization of steelmaking. In this declaration, the […]

Conventional blast furnace technology (upper bar) is to be replaced by direct reduction with hydrogen by 2050. The first road is scheduled to go into trial operation as early as 2026. Image © Salzgitter AG

It’s so green

2. September 2021 Hans Georg Schätzl

Anyone who would have claimed 7 or 8 years ago that coal, or more specifically carbon, would become almost irrelevant in steel production around 2050 would have been a shoo-in […]