SSAB Americas is launching a steel recycling project in the US

The plan is to use wagons made from SSAB Zero steel for the subsequent transport of scrap

The steel company SSAB Americas, together with its partners The Greenbrier Companies and Alter Trading, has announced the launch of a circular economy project. The initiative aims to demonstrate how recycled materials can be used to produce sustainable steel with near-zero emissions. This is stated in the company’s press release.

The project will be launched at SSAB’s facilities in Iowa, where SSAB Zero steel is produced from scrap metal using energy generated without the use of fossil fuels.

How the closed-loop production cycle works:

1. Greenbrier is using SSAB Zero steel to build 50 railway wagons, which will be supplied to Alter.
2. Once in service, these wagons will be loaded with scrap metal and transported back to SSAB’s plants for remelting and the production of new steel.

“This project demonstrates the effectiveness of using near-zero-emission steel in complex industrial sectors,” said Tom Cox, President of SSAB Americas. “The circular economy delivers the best results when materials are supplied on an industrial scale to meet real needs within the existing supply chain.”

The process is based on clear documentation of production, physical logistics and full traceability of materials’ origins, without the use of carbon offsets.

As reported by GMK Center, SSAB will supply Vattenfall’s decarbonised steel for the construction of the Juliusburg/Krukow ground-mounted solar park in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany). SSAB Zero steel is being used in the support structures on which the solar panels are mounted. In total, over 9,000 steel sections with a combined weight of 209 tonnes will be used.