Thyssenkrupp Steel has launched a form of steel with a reduction in CO2 intensity of 70%, it said.
Using hot-briquetted iron (HBI), the carbon emission intensity per tonne of lower-CO2 flat steel products - which it calls "bluemint" - is 70% lower at 0.6 tonnes of CO2 per tonne than the 1.5 tonnes that would be produced otherwise, the steelmaker said on Wednesday October 6.The reduced CO2 emissions at the blast furnace have been independently assured by international...