Europe’s leading home appliance manufacturer BSH Hausgeräte is continuing to drive forward the decarbonization of its value chain using materials produced in a climate-friendly way. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 13 January 2023 with Salzgitter Flachstahl to source green steel from a new production route from 2025. The steel will be produced by means of the new hydrogen-based production route SALCOS, Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking. This means that carbon emissions in production will be reduced gradually by some 95% by 2033.Salzgitter has laid the foundations for almost zero-carbon steel production with the SALCOS program. The key elements are electricity from renewable sources and its use to produce hydrogen by means of electrolysis. The green hydrogen produced will replace coal, which is still being used at present in the conventional blast furnace process. This is made possible by direct reduction plants, involving the direct reduction of iron ore into iron in the solid state using hydrogen as a reducing agent. Using this technology, steam is emitted instead of carbon dioxide. SALCOS is thus following the carbon direct avoidance strategy to avoid the generation of carbon in steel production as early as the production stage. Salzgitter therefore intends to reduce its carbon emissions overall by 95%BSH’s development and manufacturing at all its locations worldwide have already been carbon-neutral since 2020. And the company has set itself a further sustainability target for 2030
Europe’s leading home appliance manufacturer BSH Hausgeräte is continuing to drive forward the decarbonization of its value chain using materials produced in a climate-friendly way. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 13 January 2023 with Salzgitter Flachstahl to source green steel from a new production route from 2025. The steel will be produced by means of the new hydrogen-based production route SALCOS, Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking. This means that carbon emissions in production will be reduced gradually by some 95% by 2033.Salzgitter has laid the foundations for almost zero-carbon steel production with the SALCOS program. The key elements are electricity from renewable sources and its use to produce hydrogen by means of electrolysis. The green hydrogen produced will replace coal, which is still being used at present in the conventional blast furnace process. This is made possible by direct reduction plants, involving the direct reduction of iron ore into iron in the solid state using hydrogen as a reducing agent. Using this technology, steam is emitted instead of carbon dioxide. SALCOS is thus following the carbon direct avoidance strategy to avoid the generation of carbon in steel production as early as the production stage. Salzgitter therefore intends to reduce its carbon emissions overall by 95%BSH’s development and manufacturing at all its locations worldwide have already been carbon-neutral since 2020. And the company has set itself a further sustainability target for 2030
