Steelmaking

Germany will formally approve €2bn in federal and state funding for thyssenkrupp Steel’s tkH2Steel decarbonisation project this week.

York’s National Railway Museum may be synonymous with locomotive history but now the opening of a new Wonderlab aims to engage the next generation in engineering, hydrogen and decarbonisation.

ArcelorMittal France will receive €850m ($946m) from the French Government to partially decarbonise its Dunkirk steel plant with hydrogen.

thyssenkrupp Steel Europe is set to receive €2bn ($2.2bn) of support for the decarbonisation of its steel production with renewable hydrogen from the German Government, following approval from the European Commission.

Rio Tinto and Sumitomo Corporation will build a first-of-a-kind hydrogen plant in Gladstone in a bid to lower carbon emissions in the alumina refining process.

McPhy Energy has announced it will equip the Dyneff Toulouse Sud-Sud (A61) highway refuelling station in France with a hydrogen station.

The EIT InnoEnergy Impact report 2022 has revealed its sustainable portfolio has the potential to save 2.1 gigatonnes of CO2e by 2030 through alternative energy such as hydrogen.

Lhyfe has been selected to construct a green hydrogen production site in Epinal, France, said to have a capacity of several megawatts.

H2 Green Steel has signed a seven-year binding agreement with automotive industry supplier ZF for the supply of its hydrogen-produced steel, valued at €1.5bn ($1.6bn)

Swedish truck giant Scania has signed an agreement with H2 Green Steel for its hydrogen-produce steel for the building of its trucks in a bid to cut its carbon footprint from vehicle manufacturing.