Dutch steelmaker Tata Steel Nederland has launched a new steel product with high recycled content called Zeremis Recycled that has an allocated 30% recycled content to help customers to achieve their short-term circularity targets, the company said June 26.
Zeremis Recycled produced at Tata Steel’s IJmuiden steelwork would be available from June 26, a company spokesperson told S&P Global Commodity Insights.
“We are already in talks with customers in different sectors, mainly customers who, like us, have circularity high on their agenda,” the spokesperson said. “We don’t comment on specific tonnages, other than the production is demand-dependent. We are flexible in scaling up Zeremis Recycled.”
Zeremis Recycled offers 30% recycled content, contributing to a reduction of 0.2 mt of CO2 per 1 mt of steel. The increased recycled content was achieved by adding more scrap to the company’s steelmaking process and allocating this increase to a limited amount of steel.
“We believe that together with our customers, we can make meaningful strides towards more sustainable production today,” IJmuiden’s managing director Tom Eussen said in a statement.
“Steel has a very long life cycle in which it remains in use for a long time and is reused for generations. In the quest for improved circularity, it is crucial that steel retains its value with every use,” Eussen added. “We see significant potential to achieve this through our existing asset configuration and, from 2030 onwards, through our DRP-EAF combination, which will ensure that scrap returns as advanced steels meeting the quality standards set by our customers.”
Tata Steel Nederland plans to transform itself into a cleaner, low carbon steelmaker and aims to become completely CO2 neutral by 2045.
Tata Steel will implement its low carbon, or green, steel plan in three stages. The first stage will go into operation by 2030 and consists of one direct reduced iron and one electric arc furnace replacing blast furnace 7 and cokes and gas plant 2, which will reduce CO2 emissions by 40%.
The company also wants to take measures to further reduce emissions and increase scrap use from 17% to 30% in steel production.
In the second phase of its transition, Tata Steel aims to close BF 6 and cokes and gas plant 1, which will result in a total CO2 reduction of approximately 80%. In the following years towards 2045, Tata Steel will become completely CO2 neutral.
The launch of Zeremis Recycled is part of Tata Steel’s sustainability strategy and aims to enable customers to immediately reduce their environmental footprint.
Tata Steel previously introduced Zeremis Carbon Life steel with an allocated carbon footprint reduction of up to 90% and Zeremis Delivered, the option for customers to receive their steel orders through lower-emission transportation methods.
Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, assessed the daily Northwest Europe HRC carbon-accounted steel price at Eur755/mt on June 25, down 4.4% since the start of 2024.
Annalisa Villa
