ecoMetals Initiative 2027

The car manufacturer sources aluminium and steel produced with solar energy from low-CO2 or climate-neutral production, establishes closed cycles for metals in its plants and increases the proportion of recycled raw materials. The company is the world's first car manufacturer to use a newly developed burner technology for green hydrogen as a substitute for natural gas.

Swiss Steel uses the TÜV-certified digital carbon management platform Viridis Carbon from SMS group for precise real-time analyses of its carbon footprint. This enables the steel producer to effectively track emissions and implement strategies to reduce them.

The aluminium company Hydro produces primary aluminium using renewable energy in the form of wind, solar and hydroelectric power in an efficient production process and is also increasingly offering high-quality recycled products made from aluminium scrap.

The energy supplier EWE is building one of Europe's largest hydrogen production plants in Emden with electrolysis systems from Siemens Energy. The plant is scheduled to go into operation in 2027 and will then provide around 26,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year for various applications. The amount of hydrogen produced can save around 800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year when used in the steel industry, for example.

ArcelorMittal and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) are trialling the new plasma technology from cleantech company D-CRBN at the Belgian steel site in Ghent. The innovation converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide, which can be used in steel and chemical production (CCU). The CO2 comes from MHI's separation plant and is extracted from blast furnace exhaust gases and waste gases from the hot rolling furnace.

In future, Trimet wants to completely dispense with carbon in aluminium production and is working on using inert metallic anodes for aluminium electrolysis.

Thyssenkrupp nucera supplies water electrolysers for the production of green steel in Europe's first large-scale green steel plant in Sweden.

With high-performance induction furnaces from ABP as a recycling unit, ideally powered by 100 % renewable energy, metal scrap can be recycled in an environmentally friendly and economical way - including energy savings through heat recovery.

Recycling lithium-ion batteries makes a decisive contribution to the sustainability of e-mobility. With innovative technology such as the hydrometallurgical recycling systems from Primobius, valuable battery materials such as cobalt, lithium, nickel and manganese can be recovered in an environmentally friendly and efficient manner.

Electronic scrap is a veritable gold mine of valuable metallic secondary raw materials. Andritz hydrometallurgical plants can be used to recover the precious metal components contained in electronic scrap and prepare them for the production of ingots from refined precious metals. In this way, cathodic (99.99%) copper can be recovered from electronic scrap.