Acciaierie Bertoli Safau has begun construction of a hybrid digital green plant

Italian long-product manufacturer Acciaierie Bertoli Safau (ABS), the steelmaking division of the Danieli Group, has begun construction of a hybrid digital “green” plant at its facility in Pozzolo del Friuli. This was announced in a company statement.

The €400 million ABS Hybrid Digital Green Plant project (of which €355 million is for Danieli equipment) involves the creation of Europe’s most advanced special steel production line. As noted, in terms of technological integration, it has no equivalent anywhere in the world.

ABS is integrating 12 innovations—technologies patented by Danieli—into a single line, ranging from scrap management to continuous casting, including melting, secondary metallurgy, flue gas cleaning, and water recovery.

As the company notes, with this new line, with a capacity of 730,000 tons per year, ABS will ensure the continuity of the industrial journey that began over ten years ago with the Saturno–QWR line. This will strengthen the strategy in specialty steels with a focus on two key areas: efficiency (integrating quality, industrial productivity, and social responsibility) and technological innovations aimed at reducing environmental impact, improving safety, and developing new skills in line with the most modern production models.

The plant is part of ABS’s €817 million investment plan for 2023–2028, which aims to reduce carbon emissions by 30% by 2030, according to Kallanish. The plan includes the modernization of the company’s two remaining Cargnacco furnaces. The company’s total production capacity will increase from the current 1.4 million tons to over 2.1 million tons per year once the planned measures are completed.

As a reminder, in May 2024, Danieli announced that over the next 2–3 years it would invest approximately €600 million in the development of its steelmaking division, Acciaierie Bertoli Safau, to achieve a production volume of about 2 million tons with a turnover of €3 billion.