GREENSTEEL14 Sep 2020 14:19
https://libertysteelgroup.com/news/liberty-steel-group-accelerates-greensteel-strategy/LSUK has recruited leading equipment provider Danieli to develop its longer-term plans for a GREENSTEEL hub at LSN, where the business already owns and operates a hot rolled coil (HRC) mill. The new GREENSTEEL hub would see investment in Danieli’s latest energy efficient Q-One Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) technology and other site upgrades to create a compact direct cast strip plant capable of producing 1.5-2mtpa thin gauge HRC for the UK market.The development is contingent on a competitive investment environment and the completion of SIMEC Atlantis Energy’s* (SAE) sustainable power station conversion project at the adjacent Uskmouth power station in South Wales. The power station could feed the new development at LSN with competitive power, a key ingredient in LSUK’s GREENSTEEL strategy. SAE’s conversion project is the first in the world of its kind and is currently in an advanced state of conducting technical tests and planning approvals.Commenting on LSUK’s Newport plans, Sanjeev Gupta, said:“Carbon based steel was the foundation of the last industrial revolution, but we must now think differently to meet today’s challenges of decarbonisation and growing consumption of steel globally.“By utilising the abundance of steel scrap in the UK and harnessing the opportunity that the Uskmouth power plant development brings to generate power from waste derived fuel pellets, we can create a highly competitive and sustainable GREENSTEEL hub in Newport. These plans could reduce emissions from steel making by as much as 80-90% vs the blast furnace production route using coal.“LIBERTY’s steel and SIMEC’s energy together would form a truly circular economy. We would not only use the abundant supply of steel scrap in the UK that is currently exported only to return as steel made in other countries, we would also address a critical problem of end-of-life waste going into landfill.”