A pioneering pilot project in Lulea, Sweden, designed to produce “fossil-free” steel has successfully completed test production of sponge iron, demonstrating it is possible to use hydrogen made with ...

A strange wartime substitute was in the making last week—a substitute for scrap iron & steel. It is called sponge iron, and the U.S. Bureau of Mines has decided to risk $500,000 in hurry-up ...

Concept: Swedish startup HYBRIT has produced the first-ever hydrogen-reduced sponge iron on a pilot scale without the use of fossil fuels. It is a joint venture between Sweden’s steelmaker SSAB, ...

Direct reduced iron (DRI), also known as sponge iron, made with hydrogen could be produced adjacent to electrolysers instead of steel mills in future – and become a global traded commodity, chair of ...

India’s coal-based sponge iron sector sits at the centre of a structural environmental problem —high-carbon, energy-intensive and deeply polluting. The latest flashpoint before the National Green ...