Kanthal supports HYBRIT in quest to develop world’s first fossil free sponge iron
A strategic partnership between Kanthal and HYBRIT aims to develop an electric gas heating solution for the fossil-free hydrogen used to reduce iron ore in the HYBRIT process.HYBRIT (Hydrogen Breakthrough Ironmaking Technology) is a cooperation between the steel company SSAB, mining company LKAB and the energy company Vattenfall. Its aim is to revolutionize the steelmaking technology by replacing the coal-based blast furnace process with a direct reduction process, based on hydrogen produced with fossil free electricity. The result will be a fossil-free value chain, from mine to steel. One