Green hydrogen: import or produce?

What is the right strategy for massively increasing the available quantities of green hydrogen within a few years? Answers can be found in a recent study by the Wuppertal Institute. An interview with study author Frank Merten.

In ten years, every second ton of steel produced globally should be green.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Lechtenboehmer of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy assesses the transformation of the German steel industry in an interview with the editors of steel^compact. Steel will not become green overnight. Until the changeover to hydrogen-based direct reduction, real CO₂ savings from the classic blast furnace process will be accounted for in green steel products.

We want to be at the forefront of emission-free production of packaging steel

Dr. Peter Biele, CEO of thyssenkrupp Rasselstein, talks about the new consumer platform "Weissblech kommt weiter", improvements in the sustainability of packaging steel and future plans for the more than 260-year-old traditional company.