More than 30 global customers have already shown interest in receiving shipments of the product, which will make a decisive contribution to the challenge of decarbonizing steel production
A journey of almost two decades of research in Vale's laboratories in Minas Gerais took on a new chapter on Tuesday 12th, when the company's president, Eduardo Bartolomeo, symbolically started up the world's first iron ore briquette plant at the Tubarão Unit in Vitória (ES). The product developed by Vale has the potential to revolutionize the steel industry, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the blast furnace by up to 10% or making it possible to produce zero-emission steel in the future, when green hydrogen becomes available.

"We are offering a product that will support our customers, the steel manufacturers, in adapting to the emission reduction targets being adopted by governments around the world, contributing to the fight against climate change," explained Eduardo Bartolomeo. "In addition, we are inducing Brazil's neo-industrialization, which will be based on low-carbon industry, and once again fulfilling Vale's vocation as an anchor of regional development," he said.

During the inauguration ceremony of the briquette plant, the governor of Espírito Santo, Renato Casagrande, highlighted the convergence between Vale's and the state's decarbonization plans: "As we have a decarbonization plan, which is a 27% reduction by 2030, 50% by 2040 and 100% by 2050, Vale will play a fundamental role. This is a step that will be followed by other steps towards our sustainability." see & read more on
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