Salzgitter AG projects DRI plant on the North Sea coast

摘要

Salzgitter AG, Germany's second-largest steelmaker, is launching a feasibility study for the construction of a direct reduced iron (DRI) plant with an upstream hydrogen electrolyser at the deepwater port of Wilhelmshaven in the federal state of Lower Saxony. To that end, it has signed an agreement with the state government of Lower Saxony, the City of Wilhelmshaven and the industrial partners Rhenus-a logistics company-and utility company Uniper.