Hatch named to team delivering Tata Steel’s green steel...

Hatch named to team delivering Tata Steel’s green steel (globenewswire.com)

lJmuiden, Netherlands, Sept. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tata Steel has announced that Hatch will be part of the team to deliver the hydrogen route to make green steel at its lJmuiden plant in the Netherlands. Hatch has been selected to provide the engineering for the reducing electric furnace (REF) package, which, when coupled with a direct reduced iron (DRI) plant, will enable the production of green steel using hydrogen.The hydrogen route project is part of Tata Steel’s commitment to produce steel with zero carbon emissions by 2045. To achieve that goal, Tata Steel will convert its steelmaking facilities from coal-based to hydrogen-based utilizing direct reduced ironmaking (DRI) technology, in which iron ore is directly reduced using natural gas, and progressively increasing amounts of hydrogen, and subsequently melted and refined in large and efficient rectangular electric smelting furnaces.“

We recently made agreements about our future with two ministries and the province of North Holland. We also indicated that we want to be CO2 neutral before 2045 and that we want to emit between 35 and 40% less CO2 before 2030. This will largely be done via the hydrogen route. We are replacing the blast furnaces with modern technology that uses hydrogen or gas instead of coal," said Hans van den Berg, CEO of Tata Steel Nederland.


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So...Hatch is helping us design our mines... and...hatch is helping TATA steel, maybe someone over there during a coffee break might go, "Wow this plant is almost done now, by the way... where are you going to source your high grade ore from? We just design a mine over in south australia which was recently built and they produce high grade ore by the TRAIN LOADS, do you want me to broker an introduction?"

You'll never know...