Date of Publication: July 05, 2021

Author: Eugene Ellmen

Summary:

By pledging to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, the Canadian steel industry has launched itself on a massive transformation. To meet this target, the industry will need to overturn a century of blast furnace steelmaking. These furnaces, huge cauldrons of molten metal at temperatures of more than 1,600°C, consume vast quantities of metallurgical coal, and in the process spew millions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.

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