Supporting decarbonization of the iron and steel industry: Metso invests EUR 8 million on a DRI Smelting Furnace pilot facility
Metso Corporation’s press release on January 17, 2024, at 09:00 a.m. EETMetso is expanding its testing capabilities by investing EUR 8 million to build a state-of-the-art DRI (direct reduced iron) Smelting Furnace pilot facility. The pilot plant will be constructed in Pori, Finland, where Metso has one of its major R&D Centers serving the minerals and metals industry. The new facility will allow customer-specific pilot-scale testing to demonstrate the applicability and results of industrial-scale DRI smelting with Metso’s Outotec[®] DRI Smelting Furnace technology. “Currently, the iron