Swedish steel venture Stegra, formerly H2GreenSteel, has joined the Low Emission Steel Standard (LESS), Kallanish learns.
LESS is a voluntary emission standard, creating a unified and credible label for low- and near-zero emission steel.
After several of ArcelorMittal’s European companies joined LESS earlier this summer (see Kallanish 28 July), the initiative’s members now represent approximately 45% of Europe’s steel production.
Stegra is an industrial impact scale-up in the process of building its first plant for large-scale production of green hydrogen, green iron and green steel in Boden, Sweden.
“For us, a credible and transparent label like LESS is essential to demonstrate the decarbonisation level of our products and to enable access to future-oriented markets,” says Niklas Wass, head of operations at Stegra’s Boden site. “We believe LESS should be adopted as the official EU-label for low and near zero.”
“Stegra brings both technical excellence and a strong sustainability vision to our community,” says Carmen Ostwald, secretary general of LESS.
“Their participation reinforces our mission to build a harmonised framework for low-emission steel and to accelerate the sector’s transition toward climate neutrality,” she concludes.
Christian Koehl Germany
