The European steel industry is facing an existential crisis: energy prices are high, demand from key sectors is weak, and cheap imports are affecting competitiveness. How can decarbonisation go ahead in these challenging conditions?
In the first episode of Season 4, we sit down with Stefan Rauber, CEO of Saarstahl and chairman of the SHS - Stahl-Holding-Saar GmbH & Co. KGaA group, which has embarked on a €4.6 billion programme to shift toward green steel by building two electric arc furnaces and a DRI plant, alongside increased use of hydrogen.
In conversation with The Green Steel Challenge co-hosts, Astrid Korf and James Moss, Stefan talks through the company's decarbonisation plans and how it's leaning into its multi-century experience to build the steel industry of the future. The discussion covers European carbon policy, the green steel premium, decommissioning, and buyers' demand for low-carbon products, finding an answer to a difficult question: is it economically worth it?
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