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trial center. In building the direct reduction plant, the two companies are forming a partnership for innovation and efficient industrial climate change mitigation. At the present time, thyssenkrupp Steel is still responsible for 2.5 percent of Germany’s CO2 emissions, but the first direct reduction plant alone will save over 3.5 million metric tons of CO2. This corresponds to 20 percent of the company’s current emissions, more or less, and underlines thyssenkrupp Steel’s leading role in the steel industry’s transfor- mation. At the same time, the underlying technological concept can serve as a model for many other decarbonization projects in the industry in Europe and beyond.
Moreover, this step into the transformation will preserve many thousands of high-qual- ity and highly qualified jobs. The innovation alliance between thyssenkrupp Steel and SMS will also call for new qualifications,
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in addition to the jobs created during the construction of Germany’s biggest direct reduction plant.
The detailed planning and preparatory work for construction of the direct reduction plant will commence immediately, under the scope for an earlier start to work approved by the German government. One of the tasks on the list involves getting the con- struction site ready on the plant premises of thyssenkrupp Steel.
In parallel to the project, thyssenkrupp Steel will enter into an open and transparent dia- log with neighborhood residents, politicians and the general public, to explain the pio- neering project that is now being developed to decarbonize steelmaking at the Duisburg site.
At METEC, SMS group will be show- ing pathways leading to a sustainable and future-oriented metallurgical industry
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Mission #turningmetalsgreen bundles solutions that promote the transforma- tion of the metals industry Decarbonization of production, circular economy and integrated lifecycle man- agement will be the central topics dis- cussed
Burkhard Dahmen, CEO of SMS group: “Climate protection and economic effi- ciency must go hand in hand to achieve substantial progress”
Every four years, the Düsseldorf trade fair quartet GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST opens its doors to the “Bright World of Metals“, one of the leading plat- forms for the international metals industry. From 12 to 16 June 2023, SMS group, lead- ing provider of metallurgical systems solu- tions for the steel and non-ferrous metals
industries, will be showing latest technol- ogies and solution concepts, above all for sustainable metals production, at its booth E40/41 in hall 1. The key topics covered will be the decarbonization of production, the circular economy and the concept of an integrated lifecycle management.
The SMS booth will be part of the ecoMetal- Trail, a program launched by the trade fair organizer Messe Düsseldorf. The ecoMetals logo is granted to exhibitors who make an outstanding contribution to the protection of the climate with their products, process- es and technologies.
#turningmetalsgreen: The green transfor- mation of the metallurgical industry
With its mission #turningmetalsgreen, SMS group is set to spur the transformation of