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SSAB is teaming up with Faurecia to jointly explore the development of fossil-free advanced high-strength steel for use in the automotive seating business.

This partnership makes Faurecia, one of the world’s leading automotive technology companies, the first supplier to the automotive industry to explore fossil-free steel with SSAB.

• Goal is to conduct research and advance hydrogen-based direct reduction technologies for zero-carbon iron production in Australia
• Collaboration involves University of Adelaide, Australian National University and many other companies and academic institutions
• Funding for projects includes AUD 175 million in cash and in-kind contributions from partners and AUD 39 million in grants from the federal government of Australia.

Moving towards a low carbon future for the heavy industries is a hugely challenging endeavor. But it is an area in which we can make great progress towards limiting the worst impacts of climate change and meeting the goals set out by the Paris Climate Agreement. Mammoet's Head of Sustainability, Erica Gray, discusses engineered heavy lifting's role as an enabler of this transition.

• "digital readiness" as a precondition to optimize production processes
• cloud-based SMS DataFactory to interlink four production sites for maximum data transparency and data-driven decision-making

• Preservation of precious available water requires innovation and new approaches
• Sustainable water management system complying with all environmental standards
• Water treatment and keeping it in a closed loop is a powerful lever to protect resources in production processes

• Enables Pak Steel to enlarge its footprint in the growing regional market of infrastructure projects
• Design capacity of rebar production is 450,000 metric tons per year
• Smaller diameters are rolled in multi-slit mode to increase productivity
• Direct rolling of hot billets will reduce fuel cost

Certain sectors and applications place particularly challenging demands on bearings. Steelmaking is one such example, where the aggressive operating environment means potential bearing failures present a genuine threat to production.

• 200,000 tons per year of electric strip for e-mobility
• SMS uses game engine for plant design