Steel is essential in today’s economy. It’s in everything from cars and buildings to medical equipment and wind turbines. But making steel from scratch is not great for the climate. At least not the ...

The $1.6 trillion global steel industry generates between 7% and 9% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Boston Metal has been working for a decade to develop, refine and scale technologies for ...

Efforts to decarbonize the carbon-intensive steel industry face mounting technological, economic and political obstacles, ...

Because the current reactor can only make about a ton or two of material per month, the company plans to build an even larger demonstration plant set to come online in 2026 and begin operations a year ...

The Swedish startup Stegra has raised close to $7 billion to produce zero-emissions steel using green hydrogen starting in 2026. As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of it were being produced ...

Making steel produces a lot of greenhouse-gas emissions. Now, construction is underway in Sweden on an industrial-scale plant that will emit almost zero carbon dioxide. Boston Metal, LKAB, Midrex, ...

In the Mon Valley of western Pennsylvania, steel was once a way of life, one synonymous with the image of rural, working-class Rust Belt communities. At its height in 1910, Pittsburgh alone produced ...

With more than $350 million in venture funding and a new factory in Brazil, Boston Metal looks to scale up production of its green method for making steel. If steel were a country, it would be the ...

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