Green light for “green steel” in Bremen. More than 3,100 people work for the company.
They produce up to 3.7 million tons of crude steel there every year. To achieve this, the two blast furnaces are to be shut down and replaced by a so-called direct reduction plant (DRI) This system works with environmentally friendly hydrogen. Electrically operated melting furnaces also expected to replace conventional steel converters. The group wants to start producing climate-neutral steel in the second half of the 2020s.