Liberty Steel DRI Plant
| Type | Consortium | Location | Country | Industry | Date | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel Switching, Green Hydrogen | Liberty Steel, Paul Wurth, Stahl-Holding-Saar | Dunkirk | France | 2027 | https://libertysteelgroup.com/liberty-develop-hydrogen-steel-making-plant/ |
LIBERTY Steel Group, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s sustainable industry leader GFG Alliance, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Paul Wurth and SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar (SHS) to assess the building and operating of an industrial-sized, hydrogen-based steel making plant at Dunkerque in France. If developed, the plant would be one of the first operations of its type in France. The pan-European partnership will work together on a project to incorporate a 2 million tonne Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) plant, with an integrated 1 GW capacity hydrogen electrolysis production unit, next to GFG’s ALVANCE Aluminium Dunkerque site. The DRI plant will initially use a mix of hydrogen and natural gas as the reductant to produce DRI and hot-briquetted iron (HBI), before transitioning to using 100% hydrogen once the electrolysis production unit is complete.
1000 MW
2027
France
Dunkirk
Green Hydrogen| Fuel Switching
