Transformation of the steel industry
One problem - one goal
Avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions
Hydrogen as a solution element
Innovations such as direct reduction with green hydrogen and electric arc furnaces with high scrap input are intended to reduce the use of fossil fuels in steel production and thus contribute to lowering greenhouse gas emissions and achieving climate targets.
The primary aim is to avoid and replace coal consumption in the blast furnaces, but also the use of natural gas in other processes.
A key element of the solution is hydrogen (H2). Hydrogen is to be produced step by step from water and electricity using purely renewable energy sources (green hydrogen). In the transition period, production from natural gas also offers considerable potential for improvement (gray hydrogen).
3 ways of solution
Route 1 - Blast furnace
Around 70% of crude steel is still produced using coke. However, this form of extraction is increasingly viewed critically.
Route 2 - Arc furnace
The electric steel route describes production in the electric arc furnace. This route is often seen as a bridging technology for green steel.
New - Green steel
Fossil-free green steel is decarbonized steel. CO 2 is either completely avoided or captured and converted or stored.
Navigating the future
A model with standardised rules
Low Emission Steel Standard (Less)
LESS is an initiative of the German Steel Federation, which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) and aims to accelerate the development of demand for CO2-reduced steel and enable initial sales markets. LESS is designed in particular to accompany the transformation of the steel industry with a labelling system that can be used to map the step-by-step path to climate neutrality and make it possible to compare different steel products. The standard offers steel users the opportunity to track the progress made in reducing climate-relevant emissions in steel production on the basis of standardised rules and to integrate it into their own sustainability strategies.
Navigating the future
Implementing transformation
The Stahlo Steel Compass
Environmental awareness is growing worldwide and increasingly demands that you also reduce your company's CO2-footprint. Purchasing energy-intensive products such as steel often offers the greatest optimization leverage.
Our Steel CompassTM helps you to calculate your supply chain emissions for your flat steel portfolio and plan sustainable targets until 2030 to promote transparency and informed decisions.
Steel Compass testing
Experience the principle of the Steel CompassTM here. In a personal appointment, you can use the Steel CompassTM for your product portfolio with your real data.
Discover DMP
If I buy "green", then with proof. Preferably forgery-proof and notarized. The Digital Material Passport (DMP) offers such a guarantee of authenticity!
Digital material passport
Automated verification
PDF was yesterday. Paper was the day before yesterday!
Yesterday: We have been providing material certificates digitally as PDFs for years.
Today: With our DMP, we are going one step further and will also be offering our certificates in machine-readable form in future.
Tomorrow: Customer plants can use the DMP for real-time automation of material data.
Stahlo is revolutionizing the steel industry with the Digital Material Passport (DMP), which is much more than a PDF replacement for material test certificates. It provides machine-readable data and seamless integration with software solutions to ensure transparency throughout the supply chain.
Reliable proof
Digital passport for steel coils
Blockchain notarization ensures the reliability of official documents and enables the integration of specific emission data and payloads into Stahlo's digital material passport in addition to chemical and mechanical values.
The Stahlo DMP can become a crucial basis for digital product passports (DPP), which are intended to promote the circular economy. Product passports will gradually become mandatory for many products. In the future, these passports will enable the transfer of product data along value chains, as in Catena-X, a leading ecosystem in the automotive sector. We offer compliant data formats for such ecosystems in order to reliably pass on information such as payloads and CO2-emission values.
General framework
Three requirements
Key elements of transformation
For industrial decarbonization to be successful, three elements must be successfully regulated by political decision-makers at national and European level:
- A reinforced carbon leakage protection,
- Faster access to alternative energies,
- Increased financial support!
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