Hydrogen Campus Salzgitter - In September 2020, Salzgitter AG signed a collaboration agreement with its partners, the town of Salzgitter, Projektbüro Südostniedersachsen represented by the Office for regional State Development, the regional Network Alliance for the Region, MAN Energy Solutions, Bosch, Alstom, WEVG Salzgitter and the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films, in order to set up a Salzgitter hydrogen campus to promote the subject of hydrogen in the region by implementing specific, joint projects already underway and establishing a suitable legal entity in 2021. The substantive targets set by the Hydrogen Campus Salzgitter were largely met in 2021. In spite of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, various overarching projects were launched. We also succeeded by means of active, targeted public relations work in shifting the subject of hydrogen further into the spotlight in the Salzgitter region. It was not possible to complete the target defined in the 2020 Non-Financial Report of converting the Hydrogen Campus to the structure of an association due to the degree of complexity which the project has now assumed.------------------------------------------------------------------Heat Treatment Line at Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH------------------------------------------------------------------After the construction started in 2018, 200,000 tonnes of plate steel are to be refined in energy efficient processes from 2021 onward. The use of modern technology prevents significant loss of exhaust heat, by comparison with previous technology, and allows a substantial reduction in the volume of material transports by rail to be achieved by moving the heat treatment line from Salzgitter to Ilsenburg. The heat treatment line was commissioned in spring 2021, followed by technical acceptance for production by the end of the year. By 2023, the availability of ILG’s high-quality range will be more than doubled.-------------------------------------------------------------------------Electrolyzers to Generate Hydrogen at Salzgitter Flachstahl--------------------------------------------------------------------------The construction of a 2.5-megawatt PEM electrolysis plant will complete an important step toward achieving hydrogen-based steel production at the Salzgitter facility. Together with the high-temperature electrolysis plant with a nominal output of 720 kWel, launched at the end of 2020 as part of the innovation project GrInHy2.0, both plants are expected to be sufficient to meet the entire current hydrogen requirement for SZFG’s annealing processes. Today, this requirement is still produced elsewhere from natural gas and transported to Salzgitter by truck. The PEM electrolysis plant went into partial operation in the middle of the reporting year but is not yet supplying the hydrogen production volumes budgeted. Hydrogen production in the high-temperature electrolysis plant in the GrinHy2.0 project, on the other hand, almost reached its targeted level in 2021.
Hydrogen Campus Salzgitter - In September 2020, Salzgitter AG signed a collaboration agreement with its partners, the town of Salzgitter, Projektbüro Südostniedersachsen represented by the Office for regional State Development, the regional Network Alliance for the Region, MAN Energy Solutions, Bosch, Alstom, WEVG Salzgitter and the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films, in order to set up a Salzgitter hydrogen campus to promote the subject of hydrogen in the region by implementing specific, joint projects already underway and establishing a suitable legal entity in 2021. The substantive targets set by the Hydrogen Campus Salzgitter were largely met in 2021. In spite of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, various overarching projects were launched. We also succeeded by means of active, targeted public relations work in shifting the subject of hydrogen further into the spotlight in the Salzgitter region. It was not possible to complete the target defined in the 2020 Non-Financial Report of converting the Hydrogen Campus to the structure of an association due to the degree of complexity which the project has now assumed.------------------------------------------------------------------Heat Treatment Line at Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH------------------------------------------------------------------After the construction started in 2018, 200,000 tonnes of plate steel are to be refined in energy efficient processes from 2021 onward. The use of modern technology prevents significant loss of exhaust heat, by comparison with previous technology, and allows a substantial reduction in the volume of material transports by rail to be achieved by moving the heat treatment line from Salzgitter to Ilsenburg. The heat treatment line was commissioned in spring 2021, followed by technical acceptance for production by the end of the year. By 2023, the availability of ILG’s high-quality range will be more than doubled.-------------------------------------------------------------------------Electrolyzers to Generate Hydrogen at Salzgitter Flachstahl--------------------------------------------------------------------------The construction of a 2.5-megawatt PEM electrolysis plant will complete an important step toward achieving hydrogen-based steel production at the Salzgitter facility. Together with the high-temperature electrolysis plant with a nominal output of 720 kWel, launched at the end of 2020 as part of the innovation project GrInHy2.0, both plants are expected to be sufficient to meet the entire current hydrogen requirement for SZFG’s annealing processes. Today, this requirement is still produced elsewhere from natural gas and transported to Salzgitter by truck. The PEM electrolysis plant went into partial operation in the middle of the reporting year but is not yet supplying the hydrogen production volumes budgeted. Hydrogen production in the high-temperature electrolysis plant in the GrinHy2.0 project, on the other hand, almost reached its targeted level in 2021.
